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Edizioni Curci S.r.l., Galleria del Corso, 4, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Cacioppo's Drehleier Blues for solo piano will be duplicated in the forthcoming publication Antologia di brani di autori contemporanei per pianoforte solo by Edizioni Curci S.r.l [EC12465], edited by renowned pianist Emanuele Arciuli. By arrangement with Orenda Press.
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Cacioppo's long ago student/now collaborator Bruce Leto, Jr. has done it again, this time making the FANFARE WANT LIST with his new CD "Mood Poems" which features a suite of nine character pieces by the composer. GRAMMY folks may note that the disc will be in the running for this year's awards in 2 categories, Best Classical Instrumental Solo, and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. More once the official ballot has been circulated. Way to go, Bronco, and thank you, Jerry Dubins and Navona Records! cf. Fanfare #48:2, Nov/Dec 2024.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 146, Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, for 2 sopranos, baritone and piano. Duration 7 minutes. Score soon available for purchase through
OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 126, O thou, my lovely boy, for baritone voice and piano. Duration 2 minutes. Score soon available for purchase through
OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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Curt Cacioppo's SONGS WITH & WITHOUT WORDS (2019) is now available for viewing on YouTube in a 27-minute integrated text & music format at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCp0iclShaA. The 8 movement cycle isdedicated to the composer's decades-long friends Sharon Lamb and Paul Orgel inmemory of their son Julian who died unexpectedly in 2018 at the age of 26. SopranoMary Bonhag joins Dr. Orgel in this performance. For an expanded concert/conversationfilm, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9KeQDPqUO0&t=6s.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 123, No, Time, thou shalt not boast, for baritone voice and piano. Duration 3 minutes 20 seconds. Score soon available for purchase through
OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 43, When most I wink, for 2 sopranos, reciting voice and either harp or piano. Duration 6 minutes 30 seconds. Score soon available for purchase through
OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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WRUV-FM (Burlington), Davis Student Center, 590 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Cacioppo's recent work Dans le parc is aired on University of Vermont Radio 90.1 FM WRUV.org online, 8:42 PM. Performance by pianist Bruce Leto, Jr. from his new CD Mood Poems just released on Navona Records.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 66, Tired with all these, for soprano and piano. Duration 10 minutes. Score soon available for purchase through OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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WAMU 88.5, 4401 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA
A new program by Joseph Horowitz airs on WAMU, Washington, DC's NPR station, including an interview segment with Curt Cacioppo and featuring clips from his orchestral work Crying for Justice. More details forthcoming.
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The American Prize, Danbury, CT
Pianist Bruce G. Leto, Jr. is a national finalist in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for his performances of 9 pieces by Curt Cacioppo. The same pieces are included on Leto's upcoming Navona Records CD Mood Poems released May 4.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a setting of Shakespeare sonnet 65, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea for soprano and piano. Duration 3 minutes. Score available for purchase through OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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Cape Cod
Cacioppo completes his setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet XXX for soprano and piano, dedicated to Alan Moverman. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"... Score available for purchase through OrendaPress@protonmail.com.
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WRUV-FM (Burlington), Davis Student Center, 590 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Cacioppo's recent work Julian's Song is aired by host Laima Harmon on University of Vermont Radio 90.1 FM WRUV.org online, 11:45 AM. Performance by pianist Bruce Leto, Jr. from his new CD Mood Poems just released on Navona Records.
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PARMA Recordings, 223 Lafayette Rd, North Hampton, NH 03862, USA
May 4 is the official release date of the album Mood Poems by pianist Bruce Leto on Navona Records. The disc features a collection of 6 pieces by Curt Cacioppo spanning a period of years from 1981 to 2019.
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Rochmond, Virginia
Cacioppo's Drehleier Blues is aired by host Mike Goldberg, Coordinator of Classical Music Initiatives, on VPM Music 93.1's "Afternoon Classical" at 2PM, streamed at vpm.org. Performance by pianist Bruce Leto, Jr. from his new CD Mood Poems releasing on Navona Records this weekend.
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McAllister Auditorium at SAC, 1300 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA
Soprano Kristina Bachrach and pianist Daniel Anastasio present the American Premiere of Cacioppo's Nono volto di luna on their "Songs of Love" concert at McAllister Auditorium, San Antonio College. Curtain time 6:00 PM.
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Charleston International Music Competition
Cacioppo's former student Bruce G. Leto, Jr. wins 2nd prize in the solo piano division of the Charleston International Competition with his performances of Drehleier Blues and Apparition. Congratulations, Bruce!
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The American Prize, Danbury, CT
Pianist Bruce G. Leto, Jr. is among 5 national finalists in The American Prize adult solo piano division for his performances of 9 pieces by Curt Cacioppo. The same pieces are included on Leto's upcoming Navona Records CD Mood Poems to be released May 4.
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WPRB Radio, Princeton, NJ
Cacioppo's String Quartet No. 6 ("Italian Holiday" aka "Divertimenti in Italia") is aired on CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES hosted by Marvin Rosen - the Presidents Day program. Broadcast time 7:29-7:49 AM. Performed by the Quartetto di Venezia from the album RITORNELLO on Navona Records NV5956.
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Boyer College of Music and Dance, 2001 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Pianist Charles Abramovic performs Curt Cacioppo's Drehleier Blues on his piano festival recital at Temple University. Rock Hall, Boyer College of Music and Dance, 7:30 PM.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his Symphony No. 9 in b-minor. Like several of his other symphonies, the work is a single extended discourse. 25 minutes in duration, it also stands as a Finale for Schubert's "Unvollendete," and may be performed in sequence to the movements completed by Schubert, and either of the extant scherzo reconstructions made from Schubert's sketches.
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University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Soprano Mary Bonhag and pianist Paul Orgel record Cacioppo's 2019 cycle Songs With and Without Words Dec. 20-21 at the University of Vermont. Orgel additionally records the composer's very recent solo pieces Adelberg Vignette and A Child's Testimony.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his new Scena; Rondo-Fantasia for solo piano. The 18-minute-long work is in kinship with Beethoven's Op. 111, and pairs with his Ricercare scherzoso. Together to the scherzo and Finale offer third and fourth movements to follow the two movements -- Maestoso; Allegro con brio and Arietta -- of Beethoven's original sonata No. 32.
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Old First Church, San Francisco, CA
Matthew Bengtson performs contemporary piano works including a suite from Curt Cacioppo’s Ciclo metamorfico on his recital at Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109. Curtain time 8 PM. Streaming info forthcoming.
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Palazzo Murmura
Violinist Francesco D'Orazio performs Cacioppo's Hamlet Elegy on his program at Palazzo Murmura in Vibo Valentia, Calabria. Heard also will be works by Fedele, Sebastiani, Filidei and Bellafronte interpolated between movements of J.S. Bach's Partita No. III in E Major.
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Sigfried Weis Music Building, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
The "musician's pianist," Matthew Bengtson, performs music from Cacioppo's Ciclo metamorfico on his recital at Bucknell University. Curtain time 7:30 PM. qj001@bucknell.edu
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Frankfurt Book Fair, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany's largest)presents author Christian Much reading from his new the novel GOIN' HOME (Ein Aufbruch). Cacioppo's music comes under discussion in this book, which grapples with identity politics and transitional justice in US music history from the time of Dvořák's American years forward. Publisher: Wolke Verlag, Hofheim, Germany.
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/christian-much-goin-home/.
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Santa Monica, CA
Cacioppo's monumental Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine is in contention for a Grammy® nomination during this 66th awards season, thanks to the artistry of pianist Althea Waites and her momentous new CD REFLECTIONS IN TIME. Waites's album is balloted for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, and Cacioppo, whose work is on track 12, is up for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Listening link:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2MZ6FnYT7nC4Lduz6wAVYx
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Mango Eater Music, Santa Monica, CA
The new MEM Records CD REFLECTIONS IN TIME by pianist and Yamaha Artist Althea Waites is now available. On it are premiere recordings of recently discovered music by Margaret Bonds and a poetry-inspired collection by Jeremy Siskind, plus the artist's long-awaited studio recording of Curt Cacioppo's Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine," dedicated to her. The project is supported by Yamaha LA in conjunction with Terry Wollman/MEM Productions, Santa Monica, and is in collaboration with American Music scholar Michael Cooper of Southwestern University. Waites is the 2024 Piano Spheres Leonard Stein artist-in-residence at UCLA.
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Hofheim, Germany
Cacioppo's music comes under discussion in the new novel Goin'Home (oder: Ein Aufbruch) by German author Christian Much. Publisher: WolkeVerlag, Hofheim, Germany.
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/christian-much-goin-home/
Available in German September 1st. English translation and US publication soon to follow.
GOIN'HOME is a fantasy novel that grapples with identity politics and transitional justice in US music history from the time of Dvořák's American years forward. Deliberating these questions along with the composer of the New World Symphony are Amy Beach and Bud Powell. A cool if not innovative formatting feature of this publication is the embedding of QR codes that quickly take the reader to Idagio tracks that match the musical examples referenced. The Borromeo String Quartet's performance of Cacioppo's Kinaaldá is among the chosen audio selections...
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http://www.wprb.com
"Classical Discoveries" with host Marvin Rosen airs Cacioppo's Divertimenti in Italia from the CD RITORNELLO performed by the Quartetto di Venezia. Program begins at 9 AM and runs until noon, in celebration of July 4th. For more info: http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/
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Palazzo Anguissola, Via Pietro Giordani, 2, 29121 Piacenza PC, Italy
Cacioppo's scena Nono volto di luna for soprano and piano will be given its world premiere on the final concert of the Bibiena Art Festival series. The piece, which sets a text by contemporary poet Claudio Saltarelli, will be performed by soprano Àgnes Sipos and pianist Chiara Cipelli. Curtain time 5:30PM.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes the last of 3 new art songs on verses by Percy Bysshe Shelley. For soprano and piano, this final setting draws from "When the Lamp is Shattered." The song's title is "Passions," and together with "The Zucca" and "A Dirge," the three form a 12 minute cycle. To preview the score, please visit https://curtcacioppo.com/3-new-shelley-settings-for-soprano/.
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Celebrate Martin Luther King Day by viewing Cacioppo's THREE AMERICAN FANTASIES on YouTube!
I - Contrapuntal Fantasy on John Newton's "Amazing Grace" - Kenneth Fearn, pianist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHI3x1nlHA
II - Ostinato-Fantasia on "All Creatures of Our God and King" - Paul Orgel, pianist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeqJIxOD3E
III - Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine" - Charles Abramovic, pianist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ona2drbc5Nc
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of pianist Charles Abramovic's release of Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine from 3 AMERICAN FANTASIES by Curt Cacioppo, the YouTube premiere of this recording takes place today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ona2drbc5Nc.
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of pianist Kenneth Fearn's release of Contrapuntal Fantasy on John Newton's "Amazing Grace" (aka "Amazing Fugue") from 3 AMERICAN FANTASIES by Curt Cacioppo, the YouTube premiere of this recording takes place today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHI3x1nlHA.
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Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, USA
Simran Shah and Margin Zheng perform the 4-hands finale of Cacioppo's Piano Variations on "Hail to the Chief" on the fall chamber music concert in Jaharis Recital Hall, Haverford College. 7:30 PM. The movement title is "Marcia putinesca," aka "Tear down this wall!"
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Auditorium "Lo Squero," Venice, Italy
In conjunction with Progetto Franck 200, the Quartetto di Venezia, joined by violinist Marco Rizzi and pianist Gabriele Carcano, offer the Venetian premiere of Curt Cacioppo's new commissioned work, In Augusta's Company, at the enchanted Auditorium "Lo Squero" on the grounds of the Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia. Performance time 4:30PM.
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Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone, Corso del Popolo 20, 4074 - Monfalcone, Italy
In conjunction with Progetto Franck 200, the Quartetto di Venezia, joined by violinist Marco Rizzi and pianist Gabriele Carcano, offer the world premiere of Curt Cacioppo's new commissioned work, In Augusta's Company. Curtain time 8:45PM.
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Celebrated pianist Althea Waites begins recording sessions today for her upcoming Kuumba Records CD which will include newly discovered pieces by Margaret Bonds, a set of poetic character pieces by Jeremy Siskind, and Cacioppo's Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine," dedicated to her. The project is sponsored by YASLA in conjunction with Terry Wollman productions.
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Trieste, Italy
Gaia Mattiuzzi and Giovanni Mancuso give the world premiere of Curt Cacioppo’s setting of Luigi Cerantola’s madrigal text NATURA. LIVE at the Trieste Prima festival in Italy, Nov. 6, 2021, Basilica di San Silvestro. The work integrates the poet’s own recitation via electronic playback in performance. A Bluetooth speaker is mounted inside the piano and cued by the soprano…
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of pianist Paul Orgel's release of "Funkinato" (aka Ostinato-Fantasia on All Creatures of Our God & King from 3 AMERICAN FANTASIES) by Curt Cacioppo, the YouTube premiere of this recording will take place on All Saints Day at https://youtu.be/IXeqJIxOD3E.
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Orenda Press/Rendao Media posts a 6 minute trailer for Cacioppo's 4-quartet cycle WOMB OF THE SACRED MOUNTAINS at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBmsgmDpTvU.
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newsstands & bookstores nationally
Cacioppo's 2CD quartet cycle release WOMB OF THE SACRED MOUNTAINS receives generous coverage in the September/October issue of FANFARE magazine. The advance online interview and reviews may be accessed NOW by clicking here.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a new scena entitled Nono volto di luna for soprano and piano. The 6 minute work sets a poem by contemporary Italian author Claudio Saltarelli of Piacenza. In performance the piece segues naturally from the earlier Due Canti of 2007, written for the Duo Alterno of Turin.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes Spirit of Delight, the 3rd and final song in his new cycle for baritone and piano on poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Nos. 1 and 2 are, respectively, Today is for itself enough, and Life of Life! Duration of the whole set is approximately 18 minutes.
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Elley-Long Music Center 223 Ethan Allen Ave Colchester, VT 05446
Cacioppo's new song cycle Songs with and without Words receives its world premiere by Mary Bonhag, soprano, and Paul Orgel, piano, on a Vermont Youth Orchestra benefit concert. 7:30 PM Elley-Long Music Center 223 Ethan Allen Ave Colchester, VT 05446
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Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
Pianist Alessandro Vena performs Cacioppo's Notturno elidiano on his recital at the Italian Cultural Institute in Park Avenue in New York City. For details, follow Maestro Vena on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.vena.71.
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Orenda Press, Orleans, MA
WOMB OF THE SACRED MOUNTAINS, Cacioppo's unprecedented and monumental cycle of 4 string quartets inspired by the Navajo creation story, is to be released in a limited edition double disc set through the media branch of Orenda Press. 25 years have passed since the first notes of the cycle were sounded in performance by the legendary Emerson String Quartet...
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his new sextet, In Augusta's Company, commissioned for the Progetto Franck 200 festival. For the Quartetto di Venezia, violinist Marco Rizzi and pianist Gabriele Carcano, first performances will take place in Italy in November. Details forthcoming.
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Vicenza, Italy
Italian pianist and author Emanuele Arciuli devotes a chapter on Cacioppo in his new book Viaggio in America: Musica Coast to Coast, published by Edizioni Curci in Italy. An extensive playlist is included. Available online now. In stores throughout Italy as of March 9.
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Ikona Photo Gallery, Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2909, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy
Cacioppo's new work Swan of the Sile will be given its world premiere by guitarist Mónika Minár on her program at the Ikona Gallery in Venice. The piece muses on the composer's wanderings in the Veneto prior to worldwide lockdowns. Details forthcoming.
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Weill Recital Hall, 154 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, USA
Cacioppo's new work Dans le parc will receive its world premiere at the hands of pianist Bruce Leto. Leto performs alongside other medalists of the Progressive Musicians Competition Winners Recital. Curtain time 2PM. The music is based on the line "Peace, and Quiet, and Open Air wait for us somewhere," from Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story, and commemorates the passing of the composer's lifelong friend Hal C. Walker, who, as did Sondheim, took leave of us in 2021.
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Basilica of San Silvestro, Piazza S. Silvestro, 4, 34121 Trieste TS, Italy
Cacioppo's madrigal Natura on a poem by Luigi Cerantola will be premiered on the Trieste Prima/La Musica di Beatrice Festival concert series at the Basilica of San Silvestro, ore 18.00. Gaia Mattiuzzi, soprano; Giovanni Mancuso, piano. Repeat performance in Bergamo at the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea in the crypt theater on the Sinestesie series. Further details forthcoming.
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Fondazione Cini, Auditorium Lo Squero
The Quartetto di Venezia perform Cacioppo's Nebbia lagunare (dedicated to them) on their concert at the Auditorium Lo Squero, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. Collaborating on this concert will be the flutist Massimo Mercelli, in works by Boccherini, Mozart and Michael Nyman. The magnificent Adagio and Fugue in c minor K. 546 opens the program. ~It has been announced by the presenters that the Cacioppo and Nyman works will not be heard on this program.~
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The American Prize Danbury, CT
Cacioppo's motet cycle Women of Ancient Greek Myth as performed and recorded by the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under Nathan Zullinger on the Grammy®- balloted Albany Records disc Metamorphoses wins the 2021 Ernst Bacon Memorial Award conferred by The American Prize.
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Carolines School of Comedy, 1626 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA
Premiere of Dans le parc and Hal's Reprise, written in honor of Cacioppo's late friend Hal C. Walker. Christine Cacioppo, piano, and Curt Cacioppo, piano. Gathering takes place 1-3PM, and continues at 5 in Central Park. Email composer for details at contact@curtcacioppo.com.
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Cacioppo's Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano wins an Honorable Mention for instrumental composition in The American Prize competition. The work is recorded on the Navona Records album "Through Glass" (nv6289), with Francesco D'Orazio, vn, David Wetherill, hn, and Cacioppo himself at the piano.
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Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, 26438 Crenshaw Blvd, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274, USA
Pianist Althea Waites makes a recital appearance on the RHUMC "Second Sundays at 2" YouTube concert series. Program includes Cacioppo's Mitleid, along with music by Mozart, Schubert and Margaret Bonds.
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Perugia, Assisi, Roma, Velletri
Il pianista Alessandro Vena suonerà musica di Curt Cacioppo in tournée agosto 16 (Perugia, Sala dei Notari), 17 Assisi (Oratorio Santa Chiarella),* 18 Roma (Teatro Marcello), 19 Velletri (Auditorium Ex Convento del Carmine). *It has been announced that for SIAE concerns, the Cacioppo and Glass program will not be performed, and only earlier period music will be heard.
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Cacioppo's Whitman setting (I, madly struggling, cry) from his MSR release Illuminations as performed by baritone William Sharp and pianist Wan-Chi Su receives a first round nomination for the 64th Grammy® Awards in the category for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. The entire disc is balloted for Best Classical Compendium.
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Pianist Bruce Leto's CD Singing Style on Albany Records receives a second fine review in FANFARE. "The mainstay of the second part [of the program], though, is Curt Cacioppo’s Armed and Dangerous, heard in a live performance. Cacioppo’s melding of ancient and modern is superbly wrought. This is a piece that technically should be accessible to many and certainly deserves to find its way into performers’ programs. The range of imagination on display in this piece is remarkable, while Leto revels in the variety of textures available, finding real mystery as well as delivering passages of granitic strength and grotesque playfulness, the latter of which could easily refer to Ravel’s “Scarbo”. If you buy this disc for anything, buy it for this piece.
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FANFARE reviews pianist Bruce Leto's release Singing Style on Albany Records. "Bruce Leto plays all the works with the appropriate introspection, lovely tone, and plasticity of phrasing. He also embraces the more volatile world of Curt Cacioppo’s Armed and Dangerous, and does so convincingly."
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The pianist Curt Cacioppo is profiled in FANFARE (Issue 45:1, Sept/Oct 2021) alongside composer Mark Hagerty, whose music he performs. The two are interviewed by Peter Burwasser, and the CD The Realm of Possibility is given reviews by Burwasser, Colin Clarke, and Henry Fogel. Click to access.
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Cacioppo's Endgame: a prelude will be performed by pianist Bruce Leto on the Progressive Musicians Competition Winners Recital at Carnegie Hall. Curtain time 1pm. Leto won bronze and silver in this edition of the PMC. THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO PANDEMIC CONCERNS.
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Description:Congratulations to Charles Cacioppo, who, along with his Dad Curt, is a national finalist for The American Prize in the Instrumental Chamber Music/Professional category, the former for his work Inkwash Painting, the latter for his Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano.
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Music Web International, Coventry, UK
Glyn Pursglove writes an extensive, knowledgeable and deeply considered review of Curt Cacioppo's Illuminations release on MSR, giving particular attention to his Walt Whitman setting (I, madly struggling, cry). Read it here online.
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Pianist Bruce Leto's album Singing Style on Albany Records is hailed as "universally embraceable" by Tom Haugen in Take Effect Reviews. Leto "offers a live performance [of Cacioppo's Armed and Dangerous] that’s as flawless as it is memorable... For fans of piano music, few are doing it as well as Leto."
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo delivers his new solo piece for 5 string violin to Domenic Salerni, who commissioned it for his upcoming ISCM concert commemorating Earl Kim. Tarantella d'Aello is the title of this 7 minute work named after one of the Greek furies.
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WWFM 89.1 West Windsor, NJ
Jed Distler is throwing a surprise party for some of us rising septuagenarians on the next episode of his ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys on WWFM - The Classical Network. The show, which airs Tuesday June 1st at 10 PM, with a rebroadcast Wednesday June 2nd at noon, celebrates the 70th birthdays of pianists Cyprien Katsaris and Boris Bloch, composers Lois V Vierk, Jacob TV, and CURT CACIOPPO, with a tribute to harpsichord legend Scott Ross. Listen to WWFM.org either on the dial at 89.1 FM West Windsor, NJ, or online at https://www.wwfm.org/wwfm-classical.
Please tune in! Jed promises, "You'll be glad you did!"
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Shelburne, VT
Pianist Paul Orgel posts his Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival performance of selected PAWNEE PRELUDES by Curt Cacioppo on YouTube. 7 of the 9 pieces in the set are included, with post-production by Willy Lamb Orgel.
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Albany, NY
Pianist Bruce Leto releases his cantabile album "Singing Style" on Albany Records (TROY1862). The disc features 3 works by Curt Cacioppo - August Rose, Chloe, and Armed & Dangerous - and Apparition by Charles Cacioppo. Works from the standard repertoire round out the CD program.
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In conjunction with The American Prize competition, conductor Nate Zullinger and the Viva Voce Chamber Singers have been named national semi-finalists for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for their performance of Cacioppo's Women of Ancient Greek Myth. The award recognizes excellence in the performance of American Music, and the category of the nomination is Professional Conductor/Ensemble.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a new Suite of Brahms transcriptions for flute, viola and harp, dedicated to the Trio Leonardo of Venice, Italy - Andrea Dainese, flauto, Giancarlo di Vacri, viola, Elisabetta Ghebbioni, arpa. The 16 minute offering draws from Op. 76, Op. 116, and Op. 117 of Brahms Klavierwerke. Inquiries should be sent to contact@curtcacioppo.com.
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Cacioppo is featured in the May/June issue of FANFARE Magazine. In addition to Robert Schulslaper's extensive interview with the composer, multiple reviews of the composer's ITALIA disc on Navona Records celebrate the 10th anniversary of its release.
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Nate Zullinger and the VIVA VOCE CHAMBER SINGERS selected as national semi-finalists for BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE (professional division) in The American Prize competition for their premiere and recording of Cacioppo's Women of Ancient Greek Myth. Zullinger is also a national semi-finalist in choral conducting (professional division).
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Cape Cod, MA
The full score of Cacioppo's new Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, as well as the solo violin part, are now available for perusal through Orenda Press. For information, contact the Press via Cacioppo's website at contact@curtcacioppo.com.
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American Record Guide reviews Cacioppo's ILLUMINATIONS release on MSR Classics:
(March/April 2021)
CACIOPPO: ILLUMINATIONS Kristina Bachrach, s; William Sharp, bar; Evan Ocheret, ob; Curt Cacioppo, Debra Lew Harder, Wan-Chi Su, p—MSR 1777—54 minutes After a career of performing as a pianist and teaching for 41 years at Harvard University and Haverford College, Curt Cacioppo (b. 1951) retired from academia in mid-2020. He has won numerous awards over the years and made more than a dozen recordings. We have reviewed a few of them—most recently “Ritornello”. George Adams described his music as neo-classical and wrote that “his melodies and gestures are easily understood and accessible” (S/O 2016). This program has two major works: an “operistica” Luce è Donna, a setting of a poem by the distinguished Italian poet Luigi Cerantola, and his setting of Walt Whitman’s ‘I, madly struggling, cry’. It also includes settings of three other Cerantola poems and two solo piano works. His compositions have been influenced by a broad variety of sources including the medieval poetry of Dante, aspects of Native American culture, and the music he grew up with. His style is a mixture of discordant and tonal elements and improvisatory jazz. You can hear quotations here and there from Mozart, Puccini, and Chopin. He describes his piano piece ‘Notturno Elidiano’ as “an Elysian tribute to a musical hero: Frédéric Chopin”. One of the Cerantola settings with piano and oboe accompaniment is quite lushly romantic. The other piano piece, ‘Paean’, performed by the composer, recalls the duet in praise of conjugal love from Beethoven’s Fidelio. The closing work is a majestic setting of Whitman’s poem in praise of the broad heterogeneity and equanimity of the United States of America. It begins with the words: “Restriction of immigration?” and is an amplification of the famous quotation from Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty welcoming people “yearning to breathe free”. (Cacioppo took the liberty of adding the words “as our forebears were welcomed” to the text.) Written in 2018, it makes a clear and needed statement addressing current US government immigration policy. The performances are gripping and compelling. Kristina Bachrach uses a variety of vocal techniques and hits stratospheric heights thrillingly. William Sharp serves as both narrator and singer for the Whitman piece. His warm and vibrant voice brings out the grandeur of the text. All three pianists and oboist are first rate. The composer wrote the notes, except that literature professor Brian Yothers wrote about the Whitman setting. Text and translations. R MOORE
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Congratulations to Charles Cacioppo, who, along with his Dad Curt, is a semi-finalist for The American Prize in the Instrumental Chamber Music/Professional category, the former for his work Inkwash Painting, the latter for his Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano.
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Cacioppo's Walt Whitman setting (I, madly struggling, cry) as performed by baritone William Sharp and pianist Wan-Chi Su places among the semi-finalists for The American Prize in the Vocal Chamber Music/Professional division.
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Newtown, CT, USA
Today is the release date for Curt Cacioppo's newest CD ILLUMINATIONS on MSR Classics (MS 1777). This one-composer disc brings together Cacioppo's recent vocal music and solo piano reflections on Beethoven and Chopin. Performers on the album are soprano KRISTINA BACHRACH, baritone WILLIAM SHARP, pianists WAN-CHI SU and DEBRA LEW HARDER, as well as Cacioppo himself, with a cameo appearance by oboist EVAN OCHERET. The program includes aria and monodrama settings of texts by Luigi Cerantola and Walt Whitman, a Paean to Beethoven, and a Nocturne to Chopin.
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Cape Cod-Venice-London
Artist Alessio Mancino posts Favole Dolomitiche, visualizing the poetry of Luigi Cerantola, with music by Curt Cacioppo.
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Cacioppo's character piece ECCO VENERE is included on a new solo disc by pianist Bruce Leto on Navona Records (nv6308), just released. The work is flanked by Ravel and Poulenc in this dedication to Europe in the time of Covid.
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Venice-London-Cape Cod
Visual artist Alessio Mancino has launched a series of videos featuring the music of Curt Cacioppo. These delightful cortometraggi may be viewed by clicking the titles below.
Trittico del Tiramisù (2:11)
Capitello delle Serbare (2:08)
Art in San Floriano (2:35)
Omnia cum Tempore (2:08)
Sanctus Rochus (2:52)
Valsanzibio (8:08)
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo's WOMEN OF ANCIENT GREEK MYTH in video form, with poetry by Luigi Cerantola and artwork by Alessio Mancino, is posted on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8BGl9ORm0. Performed by the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under Nathan Zullinger, from the Albany Records release "CURT CACIOPPO: Metamorphoses," Troy 1822.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo posts his Homage to Diz as part of his Friday Facebook series in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Performed LIVE by pianist Matthew Bengtson. Artwork by Ying Li.
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MSR Classics Newtown, CT 06470
CURT CACIOPPO: Illuminations is soon to be released on MSR Classics (MS1777). Devoted entirely to his vocal and piano music, the artists on the disc include soprano Kristina Bachrach, baritone William Sharp, pianists Debra Lew Harder and Wan-Chi Su, as well as the composer himself. Oboist Evan Ocheret also appears. Currently in production. To preview Cacioppo's Walt Whitman setting, the last track on this album, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NdXZfH_yk.
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Albany Records 915 Broadway # 7, Albany, NY 12207
Albany Records releases a CD of new music by Curt Cacioppo for solo piano, chorus and orchestra, performed by pianist Emanuele Arciuli, the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under the baton of Nathan Zullinger, and Maestro James Ross leading the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Works include ARMED AND DANGEROUS (fantasy-variations on "l'homme armé"), WOMEN OF ANCIENT GREEK MYTH on poems of Luigi Cerantola, and Symphony No. 3, TUSCAN FOLIO. View the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oOODJl2J4A. Purchase at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cacioppo+metamorphoses&i=popular&ref=nb_sb_nossPurchase from the label at https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY_DEF&Store_Code=AR&Category_Code=a-NR. Available in Italy through Milano Dischi, and in the UK digitally through Chandos.
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PARMA Recordings, 223 Lafayette Rd, North Hampton, NH 03862, USA
Cacioppo's Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano will be released on this date on Parma Recordings' Navona label, with Francesco D'Orazio, violin, David Wetherill, horn, and Cacioppo on piano. The disc title is THROUGH GLASS, and includes works of 5 other fellow composers.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his new madrigal Natura for soprano, piano and narrator on a poem by Luigi Cerantola, from the author's just-published collection Madrigali Morbosi. The 9 minute work is the latest in the ongoing series of Cacioppo-Cerantola collaborations.
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Goucher College 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Baltimore, MD 21204
Pianist Alessandro Vena performs Cacioppo's Notturno elidiano on his recital at Goucher College. Merrick Hall, 8 PM. https://events.goucher.edu/calendar/month/2020/4?event_types%5B%5D=2662
POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Pianist Alessandro Vena performs Cacioppo's Notturno elidiano on his Music & Conversation program at Haverford College near Philadelphia, PA. Curtain time 4:15 PM. https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5NdsFAAmS/oexYw2DIkgvJ5YFqlOLGWU0/kuLwJFWnd3RZ8Js93CIV
POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC
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The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018, USA
Pianist Alessandro Vena performs Cacioppo's Notturno elidiano on his recital at the DiMenna Center in New York City. 8 PM. https://www.project142.org/event/project-142-concert-monday-april-27-2020-alessandro-vena-solo-classical-pianist-new-york-city-concert-dimenna-center-benzaquen-hall-nyc-800p-m
POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC
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PARMA Recordings, 223 Lafayette Rd, North Hampton, NH 03862, USA
A new Navona Records CD is in production which will include Cacioppo's Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano as performed by the composer, violinist Francesco D'Orazio, and David Wetherill, first horn emeritus of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Philadelphia/London/Venice
Cacioppo collaborates with Italian artist Alessio Mancino, integrating his recent Sarabande for organ with Mancino's new illuminated manuscript The Book of Hours. Mancino has also designed the artwork for an upcoming all-Cacioppo CD which will include Armed and Dangerous (fantasy-variations on l'homme armé) for solo piano, Women of Ancient Greek Myth for a cappella chorus, and Tuscan Folio (Symphony No. 3) for orchestra.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 3PM
Cacioppo collaborates with soprano Kristina Bachrach and the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under the direction of Nathan Zullinger in a program of vocal/choral world premieres. The first half of the concert includes his art song and monodrama settings of poetry by Luigi Cerantola. The second half features his a cappella motet cycle Women of Ancient Greek Myth. The stories of Circe, Europa, Galatea, Arianna, Daphne, Danae and Atropos are retold by Cerantola in new poems written expressly for this most recent project. Presented by the Concert Artists Series at Haverford College.
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Marble Palace, State Russian Museum
Cacioppo's new violin and piano work Nevskaya Fantaziya (Neva Fantasy - Невская Фантазия), commissioned by the Tchaikovsky Center for Musical Culture's 2019 festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, receives its world premiere at the Museum-Estate G.R. Derzhaniva with EKATERINA BUDNIKOVA (VIOLIN), OLGA KOTLYAROVA (PIANO). Curtain time 5PM.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes a new organ work, Sarabande after Licinio Refice.
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Cacioppo along with bass-baritone Michael Riley performs his An die unsterbliche Geliebte, set to words from Beethoven's letters to the Immortal Beloved. View at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjVVhAEFD_0.
The duo also performs Cacioppo's Notturno elidiano with recitations from Beethoven's letters dealing with thoughts on Man and Nature. View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id_F2LDArUQ.
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Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Chiesa di San Teonista
The Quartetto di Venezia gives the world premiere of Cacioppo's Nebbia lagunare (String Quartet No. 7), composed for them, on the final program of their 3-concert series sponsored by the Benetton Foundation.
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GAM, Torino, Italy
Curt Cacioppo premieres Ritorno by Ingrid Arauco, dedicated to him, on his Musiche in Mostra concert at G.A.M. in Torino, Italy. Sponsored by Rive Gauche Concerti. View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTipR3vm0c.
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Treviso, Italy
Curt Cacioppo performs Envoi by Ingrid Arauco in Treviso, Italy. From his Incroci di Millennio tour of 2004. View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4VVrWkuxU.
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Cacioppo's Fantaisie-Sonatine (Souvenir du Levant) for oboe and piano, featuring Philadelphia Orchestra oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld, along with the composer, is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEK8Yat0kk&feature=youtu.be.
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Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Cacioppo's string quartet Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman is performed by members of the South Dakota Symphony on this PostClassical Ensemble "Native American Inspirations" concert. The composer will offer remarks prior to the performance. National Cathedral (Bethlehem Chapel). Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. https://tix.cathedral.org/TheatreManager/1/login?event=1260&_ga=2.206028115.115093950.1562331231-1800669191.1561992145
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Contemporary Center for Political Art 916 G Street NW Washington DC 20001
Cacioppo joins members of the South Dakota Symphony's Lakota Music project as part of the PCE "Native American Inspirations" festival. Hosted by the Contemporary Center for Political Art. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. https://tix.cathedral.org/TheatreManager/1/login?event=1260&_ga=2.206028115.115093950.1562331231-1800669191.1561992145
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Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
The PostClassical Ensemble Chorus under the direction of Angel Gil-Ordóñez perform Cacioppo's Quattro Canti indigeni nordamericani on the "Native American Inspirations" main event concert program. The composer will offer remarks prior to the performance. National Cathedral (The Great Nave). Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. https://tix.cathedral.org/TheatreManager/1/login?event=1260&_ga=2.206028115.115093950.1562331231-1800669191.1561992145
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Dakota String Quartet performs Cacioppo's Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman on Stained Glass Concert series program. The members of the quartet, all principal string players in the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, are Doosook Kim, Magdalena Modzelewska, Yi-Chun Lin, and Jia Cao. Start time of concert 2:30PM. Details at http://www.sdsymphony.org/sg_101319/#.XZ9XIOdKiV4.
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Area DIG, Molfetta, Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy
Cacioppo's Armed and Dangerous (fantasy-variations on l'homme armé) will be recorded by pianist Emanuele Arciuli in the Molfetta Area DIG studio in Bari, Italy. Fazioli pianoforte. The work was written for and dedicated to Arciuli in 2013, and was recently presented in NYC on the Carnegie Hall "Migrations" festival series.
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Cacioppo authors liner notes for Resonance, the solo debut CD by pianist Amy Yang,
on MSR Classics. MS1655, official release date August 31, 2019.
Music of J.S. Bach, Schumann and Shaw.
http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1655
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=resonance+msr+classics+amy+yang&i=popular&ref=nb_sb_noss
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his new violin and piano work Nevskaya Fantaziya (Neva Fantasy) for the Tchaikovsky Center for Musical Culture's 2019 festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 11 minute work, inspired by themes of Tchaikovsky, receives its world premiere Nov. 2 in the Marble Palace of the State Russian Museum.
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Cacioppo's new work (I, madly struggling, cry) on verses of Walt Whitman is made available on Youtube in a sensational performance by baritone William Sharp and pianist Wan-Chi Su. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NdXZfH_yk
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St. Petersburg, Russia
Cacioppo is composing a new work for the upcoming Tchaikovsky Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the invitation of the Tchaikovsky Center for Musical Culture. The work, Neva Fantasy, will be premiered at the Marble Palace of the State Russian Museum on November 2.
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Covenant Presbyterian Church, 607 E 3rd St, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA 4PM
Steinway Artist and CSULB piano faculty member ALTHEA WAITES gives the 20th anniversary performance of Cacioppo's Fantasy-Choruses on "This Little Light of Mine", written for her in 1999. Also on her program is the glorious Sonata in A Major, D. 959 of Franz Schubert. The recital also celebrates Waites' 80th birthday.
Saturday, May 18 at 4 PM
Covenant Presbyterian Church
607 East 3rd St.
Long Beach, CA
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Harris Auditorium, University of Memphis 7:30pm
The University of Memphis Symphony under the direction of Maestro Harvey Felder III performs Cacioppo's Raven Lance and Invocation and Dance of the Mountain Gods from SCENES FROM INDIAN COUNTRY. Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music
University of Memphis 3775 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38111 General $15; Seniors $10; Faculty, Staff and Students free
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Cacioppo's Whitman setting Red Jacket/Yonnondio is posted on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6QJftGxPTU. Kristina Bachrach, soprano, and Laura Ward, pianist. The verses reference two personages from Native American history. The work was commissioned by Lyric Fest.
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Cacioppo's performance of Ombre allungate by Franco Cavallone is posted on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWOn_f-uxU.
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Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Violinist Francesco D'Orazio performs Cacioppo's "Hamlet Elegy" on his colloquium program at Lehigh University. Zoellner Arts Center, Room 143, 420 E. Packer Ave. Also on the program, "Faust Narrative No. 2," with the composer at the piano.
Bethlehem, PA 4:15 PM.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041
Cacioppo appears as pianist and composer with violinist Francesco D'Orazio and French hornist David Wetherill and friends from the Philadelphia Orchestra on the Haverford College Concert Artists Series. Program includes the premiere of his Faust Narrative No. 2 for violin and piano, and Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano.
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WRTI-FM 1509 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19121
Curt Cacioppo & Friends are featured on WRTI's Performance Studio in a live broadcast on April 12 starting at 4 p.m. Preview performances of music from their Haverford College Concert Artists Series program taking place Sunday, April 14 at 3PM in Marshall Auditorium. Philadelphia Orchestra principal horn emeritus David Wetherill plays Cacioppo's solo horn piece "of dark and bright;" award-winning Italian violinist Francesco D'Orazio and Cacioppo play the brand new "Faust Narrative No. 2;" and D'Orazio, Wetherill and Cacioppo collaborate on the new tango-inspired Horn Trio written for them. Conversation with the musicians hosted by Debra Harder.
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The Phoenix Concerts
Lyric Fest presents its Walt Whitman program, including Cacioppo's commissioned work "Red Jacket/Yonnondio" for soprano and piano. Kristina Bachrach, soprano, and Laura Ward, piano. The Phoenix Concerts St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 W 84th St NYC, NY 7PM
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041
Lyric Fest presents its Walt Whitman program, including the world premiere of Cacioppo's commissioned work "Red Jacket/Yonnondio" for soprano and piano. Kristina Bachrach, soprano, and Laura Ward, piano. 3 PM Haverford College Concert Artists Series Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
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The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York City 7PM
Music of Curt Cacioppo presented by pianist Emanuele Arciuli at the Italian Academy as part of Carnegie Hall's citywide festival "MIGRATIONS - the Making of America." Start time 7PM. https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/event/emanuele-arciuli-piano-0
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Torino, Italy
Cacioppo is covered in an extensive interview with Andrea Vio, first violinist of the Quartetto di Venezia, in Italy's prestigious Giornale della Musica - https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/articoli/il-quartetto-darchi-come-scuola-di-democrazia
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Gladwyne, PA
Pianist Bruce Leto releases his Seasonal Sonorities disc and enhanced content website, with a program of Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and 4 Cacioppo works. A percentage of the revenues from the CD benefit the Take A Breather Foundation, inspiring hope and happiness for those with cystic fibrosis.
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The National Cathedral
Baritone William Sharp and pianist Wan-Chi Su give the world premiere of Cacioppo's "(I, madly struggling, cry)", a setting of stanzas by Walt Whitman commissioned for the occasion by the Post Classical Ensemble. 7:30 PM For further information, see https://postclassical.com/performances/whitman/
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 3PM
Pianist Riccardo Piacentini gives an encore performance of Cacioppo's "Drehleier Blues" on the Duo Alterno's SWEET BEGINNINGS concert. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consolato Generale d'Italia Filadelfia.
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Rock Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 3PM
Pianist Charles Abramovic performs "Nunca pagaremos" from Cacioppo's Piano Variations on Hail to the Chief on his faculty recital dedicated to Music of the Americas, in collaboration with Las americas en conciertos.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his new vocal work "(I, madly struggling, cry)" for baritone and piano on passages from Walt Whitman writings, with additional lines by Emma Lazarus. Commissioned by the Post Classical Ensemble, it will be premiered on November 5th at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes the second pillar of his monument to Busoni, his FAUST NARRATIVE NO. 2 for violin and piano. The new 14 minute work is dedicated to Abbiati prize winning violinist Francesco D'Orazio. The previous Faust Narrative No. 1 of 1996 is dedicated to the memory of Cleveland Orchestra violinist Leonard Samuels.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo is asked to compose a new work for the Post Classical Ensemble in residence at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., for its November 5th pre-election concert celebrating Walt Whitman. Baritone William Sharp will sing the premiere.
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Academy of Vocal Arts, 1920 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
Cacioppo presents his gala of premieres concert at AVA, including piano, vocal, and chamber works by the composer written in recent years. Joining him for this program are pianists Sara Davis Buechner and Charles Abramovic, mezzo-soprano Misoon Ghim, baritone Brian Ming Chu, and Philadelphia Orchestra oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld. Among the featured works are his Canti su testi di Renzo Oliva (former Italian vice-consul general in Philadelphia), and his politically charged Piano Variations on "Hail to the Chief."
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Cacioppo completes his new Quartettsatz NEBBIA LAGUNARE for the Quartetto di Venezia. The piece recalls a trip to Venice during which the Serenissima had cloaked herself in a dense fog, unveiling her splendor only after several days and nights of eerie mists...
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Cacioppo records his CAMEOS FROM THE QUAKER DOMAIN on the Yamaha DiskKlavier at the Cunningham Piano Showroom in King of Prussia, PA. He will also be filming the performance with discussion of the pieces for the company's new Youtube show. RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 10.
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Cacioppo completes his TRIO for violin, horn and piano. The 18 minute work consists of 3 connected movements: Barcarolle, Fantaisie-Passacaille, and Tango. It was written for Abbiati Prize winning violinist Francesco D'Orazio and Philadelphia Orchestra emeritus principal horn David Wetherill. D'Orazio, Wetherill and Cacioppo will premiere the work next season.
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Join Classical Discoveries and host Marvin Rosen ThisWednesday, February 21, 2018, from 5 till 11 AM. The program, now in its 21styear, is a unique radio show devoted to contemporary works as well as selections of music written before 1750. To be aired, music by Bacewicz, Harold Brown, Judith Sainte Croix, and the Concerto for Oboe and String Chamber Orchestra with Harpsichord by American composer CurtCacioppo (Cacioppo’s concerto should start play at approximately 10:15). Listen on WPRB 103.3 FM Princeton MJ, or on the Internet at http://wprb.com/. If you miss the broadcast you can listen to the MP3 file for a limited time (available after the show) by going to http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_02_21_2018_temporary_file.html.
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Cacioppo completes his Walt Whitman setting for Lyric Fest. The work, for soprano and piano, combines two Whitman poems that deal with Native American subjects. "Red Jacket," is set in its entirety. Adjoined to this, Cacioppo uses lines selected from "Yonnondio" to produce a unified, 5 minute art song. To be premiered in April of 2019.
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The Greene Space, NYC
Curt Cacioppo and friends in a GALA OF PREMIERES: music that trumps time and trend. New York premieres of Cacioppo's songs on poems by contemporary Italian author Renzo Oliva, the politically charged PIANO VARIATIONS on "Hail to the Chief," his Fantaisie-Sonatine (Souvenirs du Levant), and BERNINI ELEGY on a text by C.H.O. Scaife. The composer as pianist is joined by Misoon Ghim, mezzo-soprano, Alexander Dobson, bass-baritone, Charles Abramovic, pianist, and Jonathan Blumenfeld, oboe. At the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, 160 Varick St., NYC, NY. Live video webcast by NY Public Radio.
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Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall, Haverford College 3PM
Haverford College Concert Artists Series presents Curt Cacioppo and friends in a GALA OF WORLD PREMIERES: music that trumps time and trend. World premieres of Cacioppo's songs on poems by contemporary Italian author Renzo Oliva, the politically charged PIANO VARIATIONS on "Hail to the Chief," his Fantaisie-Sonatine (Souvenirs du Levant), and BERNINI ELEGY on a text by C.H.O. Scaife. The composer as pianist is joined by Misoon Ghim, mezzo-soprano, Brian Ming Chu, bass-baritone, Sara Davis Buechner and Charles Abramovic, pianists, and Jonathan Blumenfeld, oboe. Curtain time 3PM.
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Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Emanuele Arciuli gives the world premiere of Cacioppo's ARMED AND DANGEROUS (variations on "L'homme armé) on his all American new music recital. Among the other composers represented are Louis Ballard, Frederic Rzewski, and Kyle Gann. Presented by the Haverford College Music Department Concert Artists Series.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo posts the premiere performance of his CANTATA OF THE ANGELS aka VESPERO VERMIGLIO by THE CROSSING choir, led by Donald Nally. The video incorporates librettist Luigi Cerantola's illuminated manuscript of the text, and Alessio Mancino's artwork, along with other imagery. Marvelous soprano solos by Karen Blanchard, Justine Aronson, Anne Fuchs, Kelly Ann Bixby and Rebecca Siler, and stunning virtuoso organ playing by Scott Dettra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Mp1L8D_iw
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo posts his ELEGY for solo violin based on Shakespeare's Hamlet ("and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"). Performed LIVE by Francesco D'Orazio in Bari, Italy. Montage by Curt Cacioppo. Photography of Castle Elsinore by Tian Hui Ng. https://youtu.be/0AmgbS4aqLk
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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Althea Waites performs Cacioppo's PHILADELPHIA DIARY on her Grahamstown National Arts Festival tour in South Africa. Today's concert at 12 noon, the Beethoven Room, Music Department, Rhodes University, Somerset St, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa.
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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa 3PM
Althea Waites performs Cacioppo's PHILADELPHIA DIARY on her Grahamstown National Arts Festival tour in South Africa. Today's concert at 3 PM, the Beethoven Room, Music Department, Rhodes University, Somerset St, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa.
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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa 6:30PM
Althea Waites performs Cacioppo's PHILADELPHIA DIARY on her Grahamstown National Arts Festival tour in South Africa. Today's concert at 6:30 PM, the Beethoven Room, Music Department, Rhodes University, Somerset St, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa.
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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa 10AM
Althea Waites performs Cacioppo's PHILADELPHIA DIARY on her Grahamstown National Arts Festival tour in South Africa. Today's concert at 10 AM, the Beethoven Room, Music Department, Rhodes University, Somerset St, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa.
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N. Columbia School House Cultural Center, 17894 Tyler Foote Crossing Rd, Nevada City, CA 95959
Pianist Charles Abramovic performs music of Curt Cacioppo and Charles Cacioppo on his program at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, North San Juan Ridge, California.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his 7th motet on poems by Luigi Cerantola dedicated to female myths of ancient Greece. The final motet is entitled ATROPO. This concludes the 40 minute a cappella collection, which is organized as follows: CIRCE EUROPA GALATEA ARIANNA DAFNE DANAE ATROPO
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Auditorium dei Balivi, Via Guido Rey 11100, Aosta, Italy
Violinist Francesco D'Orazio performs Cacioppo's ELEGY on his program "Meditations" at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali della Valle d’Aosta - Conservatoire de la Vallée d’Aoste. Ore 20:30 - Ingresso Libero
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford PA
The Amernet Quartet perform Cacioppo's Mą’ iijí hatáál (“Coyoteway”) on their Concert Artists Series program at Haverford College Sunday, April 9 at 3 PM. The work is the second in a cycle of 4 string quartets called WOMB OF THE SACRED MOUNTAINS, which narrates the creation story of the Navajo.
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CSULB, Bob Cole Conservatory, G.R. Daniel Recital Hall
The Orpheus Duo performs "SAINTS ALIVE!" from Cacioppo's STORIES FROM THE 7th WARD on the Multiple Keyboard Extravaganza scholarship fundraiser concert at Cal State Long Beach. Althea Waites and Mark Uranker are pianists.
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University of Pittsburgh, Music on the Edge series 8PM
Cacioppo appears with the Quartetto di Venezia in the last of 6 tour performances of new American music. On the program is his quintet, WOMEN AT THE CROSS. Also on the program are works by Kendall Kennison, Roger Zahab, and Robert Maggio. University of Pittsburgh, Music on the Edge Festival, Andy Warhol Museum. Tickets in advance: general admission is $15; students and seniors are $10. At the door: general admission is $20; non-Pitt students and seniors are $15. (No free student tickets at the Warhol.) Call 412-624-7529 or visit music.pitt.edu/tickets. http://www.music.pitt.edu/events/music-edge-quartetto-di-venezia160913
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Haverford College, Magill Library, Phillips Wing 4:30 PM
The Quartetto di Venezia gives the U.S. premiere of Cacioppo's "Divertimenti in Italia" (String Quartet No. 6) in conjunction with an exhibit of artwork by Ying Li created in Italy. Discussion with the composer and the artist complements the performance. FREE Limited seating in this intimate venue
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West Chester University, Swope Hall 8:15 PM
Cacioppo appears with the Quartetto di Venezia in the fourth of 6 tour performances of new American music. On the program is his quintet, WOMEN AT THE CROSS. Also on the program are works by Kendall Kennison, Roger Zahab, and Robert Maggio. Swope Hall, West Chester University. FREE https://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/eventsCalendar.aspx#/?i=2
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St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC 8 PM
Cacioppo appears with the Quartetto di Venezia in the third of 6 tour performances of new American music. On the program is his quintet, WOMEN AT THE CROSS. Also on the program are works by Kendall Kennison, Roger Zahab, and Robert Maggio. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, West 20th Street, Chelsea, NYC. Presented by the PRISM PROJECT. Suggested donation: $20 gen/$15 students & seniors http://users.rcn.com/elm/prmndx.html http://www.stpeterschelsea.org/
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Haverford College, Concert Artists Series 3 PM
PUBBLICO IN PIEDI! STANDING OVATION Cacioppo appears with the Quartetto di Venezia in the second of 6 tour performances of new American music. On the program is his quintet, WOMEN AT THE CROSS. Also on the program are works by Kendall Kennison, Roger Zahab, and Robert Maggio. Marshall Auditorium, HaverfordCollege. Admission: $20 (gen)/$15 (sr)/$10 (stu)/$5 (7-17); free to members of Haverford, Bryn Mawr, & Swarthmore College community https://ems-web.quaker.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5/AErWqm/R2eV0dPeH6zoafkcXv2HeBNbnXCIVwpEj0b6m2WJw%2BLrF
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Goucher College, Baltimore, MD 8PM
STANDING OVATION! Cacioppo appears with the Quartetto di Venezia in the first of 6 tour performances of new American music. On the program is his quintet, WOMEN AT THE CROSS. Also on the program are works by Kendall Kennison, Roger Zahab, and Robert Maggio. Merrick Hall, Goucher College. FREE
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Cal State Long Beach
The Orpheus Duo offers a preview performance of 2 movements from Cacioppo's STORIES FROM THE 7th WARD on a faculty chamber music concert Monday evening, 2/27 at 7:30 in the G.R. Daniel Recital Hall at CSULB's Bob Cole Conservatory. The movements chosen are "Taffeta Skirts" and "Saints Alive!" The NOLA tribute work will be premiered in its entirety by the Duo on March 12.
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West Windsor, NJ
WWFM, The Classical Network, will be broadcasting a selection of pieces from Network for New Music's last two seasons. You can tune in to hear these recordings of the fine Network Ensemble at noon on Tuesday, 2/21. The broadcast will include compositions by: Curt Cacioppo, Milton Babbitt, Wolfgang Rihm, Ingrid Arauco, Laura Karpman, David Rakowski, and Robert Capanna. I hope you can tune in! Full Service Stations WWFM 89.1 FM Trenton/Princeton, NJ (HD) WYPA HD2 89.5 HD2 Cherry Hill/Philadelphia WWNJ 91.1 FM Toms River, NJ (HD) WWCJ 89.1 FM Cape May, NJ (HD) WWPJ 89.5 FM Pen Argyl, PA (HD) Translator Stations W224AU 92.7 FM Allentown, PA W226AA 93.1 FM Easton, PA W230AA 93.9 FM Atlantic City, NJ W245AC 96.9 FM Harmony Twp, NJ K216FW 91.1 FM Steamboat Springs,CO WWFM is a 1,150 watt station, broadcasting on 89.1 FM, also broadcasting in HD. WWNJ is a 6,000 watt station, broadcasting on 91.1 FM. WWCJ is a 8,000 watt station, broadcasting on 89.1 FM, also broadcasting in HD. WWPJ is a 100 watt station broadcasting on 89.5 FM from Pen Argyl, PA, also broadcasting in HD. WWFM was established in 1982, WWNJ in 1991, WWCJ in 1999 and WWPJ in 2001. With the addition of digital signals in New York City and Philadelphia, The Classical Network can be heard freely over digital radio by more U.S. listeners than any other classical station, public or commercial.
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Trinity Center, 22nd and Spruce 8 PM
The Chamber Orchestra First Editions performs "A Meeting of Souls" by Curt Cacioppo, with Cacioppo as harpsichord soloist; Heidi Jacob, conductor. The piece, originally commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival, draws its inspiration from the famous "Air on the G String." Program begins at 8:00 PM.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College
The Chamber Orchestra First Editions premieres "A Meeting of Souls" by Curt Cacioppo, with Cacioppo as harpsichord soloist; Heidi Jacob, conductor. The piece, originally commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival, draws its inspiration from the famous "Air on the G String." Program begins at 8:00 PM.
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The Lafayette Bar, North 4th Street, Easton, PA
Premiere of the jazz version of Cacioppo's "Parisian Room Waltz" by the Lafayette Trio on the Nic Cacioppo Retrospective Concert at The Lafayette Bar in Easton, PA. Nicole Glover, saz; Oscar Williams, piano/key bass; Nic Cacioppo, drums.
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Western Michigan University
Pianist May Phang will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Dalton Center Recital Hall at Western Michigan University. Program features Cacioppo's OSTINATO-FANTASIA ON ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING (aka 'FUNKINATO').
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Isola S. Giorgio, Auditorium "Lo Squero," Venice, Italy ore 17.00
A restrospective/65th birthday concert at the exciting new venue on the Isola San Giorgio called "Lo Squero" in Venice with the Quartetto di Venezia and Cacioppo at the piano. Program includes music by Cacioppo written for the QdV over the 10 year period 2002-2012: "Impressioni venexiane," "Divertimenti in Italia," and the piano quintet "Women at the Cross." Special inclusion of the solo piano piece "Ecco Venere," dedicated to the goddess and namesake of Venice and the Veneto region. The event is hosted by the Fondazione Cini in collaboration with the festival Asolo Musica.
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco
Cacioppo's "ELEGY" for solo violin will receive its U.S. premiere performance by Francesco D'Orazio. Ora: 6:00pm IIC Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco Please note our NEW location at Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness Ave Suite F San Francisco, California 94102 - USA
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford PA 1:30 pm
Paul Orgel performs Cacioppo's VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF MOZART, along with Mozart sonatas, variations, and the a-minor Rondo in an atelier hosted by the "Topics in Piano" course. Visitors welcome!
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Palazzo Albrizzi, ACIT Venezia, Cannaregio, Venice, Italy
The video SYNAESTHESIS I is selected for screening during the "Giornate Wagneriane 2016" and the "Symposium: Wagner e la nuova musica" hosted by the Associazione Richard Wagner di Venezia and the Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT Venezia), in conjunction with the Casinò di Venezia, Fonadzione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, and the Regione Veneto.
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LiveWire Festival, UMBC
Cacioppo offers the world premiere of the complete Preludes for solo piano by Christopher Shultis, including the "World's End Preludes" (composed in the woods of Pennsylvania) and "Devisadero" (composed in the mountains of New Mexico, and dedicated to Cacioppo).
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Dartmouth College, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center 4 PM
Vaughan Recital Series presents Paul Orgel, piano Pianist Paul Orgel performs an all-Mozart program including a Fantasia, Sonata, Rondo, and Variations, along with a new work, "Variations on a Theme of Mozart" by Curt Cacioppo.
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Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
The Orpheus Duo gives the premiere of Movement 3 from Cacioppo's STORIES FROM THE 7th WARD, "Parisian Room Waltz," on their concert Friday afternoon, September 23, at Cerritos College. Also included on the program is Cacioppo's FANTASY, AIR and RAG suite in tribute to J.S. Bach.
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Magill Library, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 7:30 PM
Cacioppo gives the US premiere of his new piano sonata "Synaesthesis I" inspired by art work of Ying Li. The performance takes place amidst an exhibition of Li's images, and is accompanied by a silent video narrative by film maker John Thornton. Additional music by Cacioppo fills out the program.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes the new piano piece "Quiete notturna," inspired by an etching of the same title by printmaker Lia Laterza, who is based in the town of Oulx near Torino, Italy. The 7 minute work is in the nature of a berceuse, never exceeding the dynamic level of mezzo piano despite the haunted passages marked "ventoso"...
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Cape Cod, MA
With the completion of "Taffeta Skirts," Cacioppo also completes his two-piano suite STORIES FROM THE 7TH WARD, a tribute to New Orleans. Written for the Orpheus Duo, the half-hour-long work consists of four pieces variously inspired by family stories told by Althea Waites -- a member of the Duo, and a New Orleans native -- and by musical idioms of the city, especially Dixieland and the music of Cacioppo's late distant relative, trumpeter, bandleader and broadcaster Tony Almerico. The movements are: I - The Valiant Crab II - Taffeta Skirts III - Parisian Room Waltz IV - Saints Alive! See the composer's blog for the associated stories!
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes another in his 2 piano "Stories from the 9th Ward." This one is entitled SAINTS ALIVE! and captures a vision related to him by Althea Waites of her mother after she died going up to see God, and having a serious talk with him about the troubles on planet earth and what he should be doing about them. Fantastic story. Her Mom was a big fan of "When the Saints go Marching In," and this melody serves as the basis of this new composition.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo completes his "Parisian Room Waltz" for 2 pianos, part of a collection entitled STORIES FROM THE 9th WARD, inspired by tales from New Orleans. This movement is in honor of Dixieland trumpeter/broadcaster/bandleader and Cacioppo's distant relative, Tony Almerico. Hear Tony's work on the album "Clambake on Bourbon Street."
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Seattle, WA USA
The Skyros Quartet is performing two large selections from Curt Cacioppo's "Impressioni venexiane" as part of our new music showcase through Second Inversion (Classic KING FM 98.1) at the Northwest Folklife Festival on May 27th. It's a free show! Details can be found in links in the article below. http://secondinversion.org/2016/05/18/2016-folklife-preview-meet-the-skyros-quartet/
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UTEP
Cacioppo presents a colloquium on his music to ethnomusicology students and faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso, and offers a formal lecture on modernism -- “From the Barbaric to the Degenerate” -- dealing with Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Fox Fine Arts Center, Rm. 402, 9:30-10:30 and 10:30-11:45, Rm. 402.
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Oak Bay Music Festival, Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
The Skyros Quartet (Seattle) performs music from Cacioppo's ITALIA CD at the Oak Bay Music Festival, Victoria, BC (Canada) April 2 & 3, 2:30 PM - Sidney Matinée St. Andrew’s Anglican Church works by Cacioppo, Schulhoff, Sibelius more info at http://oakbaymusic.ca/
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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Robb Festival events, "Indigenizing Art Music" 11-12:15 Room 1106 -- composition masterclass with Valerie Naranjo 3:30-4 Room 1108 -- Recitation & discussion: “A Chanter’s Parting” 7:30 Keller Hall -- the Amernet Quartet performs Cacioppo's Mą’ iijí hatáál (“Coyoteway”)
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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Robb Festival events, "Indigenizing Art Music" 9-10 Room 1111 -- Cacioppo Meet the Composer presentation 1-2:30 Keller Hall -- open rehearsal with the Amernet String Quartet 3:45-5 Room 2100 -- composition masterclass with Raven Chacon
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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Robb Festival events, "Indigenizing Art Music" 3-4 Room 1108 -- panel discussion with composers Christopher Shultis and Peter Gilbert 7:30 Keller Hall -- pianist Emanuele Arciuli performs Cacioppo's "Lyric Visions from the Pawnee" with the composer reciting newly written stanzas in alternation with the music.
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Provincetown, MA
Cacioppo's "Divertimenti in Italia" airs on WOMR 92.1 FM out of Provincetown, MA. The program is "The Latest Score" hosted by Canary Burton, and the performance is by the Quartetto di Venezia from the all-Cacioppo CD "Ritornello" on Navona Records. 1-4 PM Start time for "Divertimenti" is 1:37 PM.
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Haverford, PA
Film post on Youtube of Curt Cacioppo's "Sonata trasfigurata" at https://youtu.be/fK38PgbnbBg. Cacioppo's performance is accompanied by a poetic and visual narrative including archival photos of Tuscany and art work of Ying Li. Videography by John Thornton, audio editing by Jeanne Velonis.
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Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, United States
The long-awaited world premiere of Cacioppo's "Pharaonic Suite" for brass quintet will be given by Graham Ashton and the New York Chamber Brass at 3PM in Marshall Auditorium of Roberts Hall on the Haverford College Concert Artists Series. Disclaimer: the piece was inspired by the ancient BOOK OF THE DEAD, and has nothing to do with the "Egyptian Spring" or the race horse "American Pharaoh," or the famous iteration "Back to Egypt" in the film CB4, all of which the composer, however, regards most highly.
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San José & Heredia, Costa Rica
The premiere performances of Cacioppo's tone poem "Of Shacklers & Heroes" will be given by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia under the baton of Eddie Mora at the Teatro Eugene O'Neill in San José (Sunday the 21st), and at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Heredia (Monday the 22nd), Costa Rica. The work celebrates the 160th anniversary of Costa Rica's victory over William Walker and his filibusters, who sought to impose slavery throughout Latin America.
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The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, United States
Cacioppo's "Pharaonic Suite" for brass quintet receives a preview performance by Graham Ashton and the New York Chamber Brass at the Juilliard School, 2:30 PM.
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Cape Cod, MA
A stunning Hollywood-style trailer is posted for Cacioppo's monumental TRILOGIA DANTESCA on Youtube at https://youtu.be/FbGCnK_3q2E. Produced in conjunction with audio engineer/narrator Jeanne Velonis and videographer/digital artist John Thornton, the 6-minute film encapsulates the beauty and expressive range of Cacioppo's concert-length concerto-oratorio for piano, orchestra and chorus. Reactions from listeners: "Wow, this is fantastic. The music sounds wonderful, varied, inspired." -- multiple-time Grammy winner "The music sounds gorgeous -- evocative, tender, dramatic." -- famed instrumentalist & writer "The music is deeply emotional, visceral." -- former orchestra CEO "From Inferno to Paradise, from the diabolical to the rich Romantic palette -- and the voices! It's so luminous to hear the voices!" -- Michelin-star restaurant professional "Profound and magical...damned intoxicating music." -- ret. journalist & TV producer "An amazing work, monumental in its construction and yet always speaking to the listener in its ability to communicate to the senses. [Cacioppo is] the true successor to Samuel Barber. Not since Barber's works has a composer spoken to the heart of the listener like this." -- distinguished piano professor, editor & author
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Ateneo veneto, Campo S. Fantin, Venice, Italy
The Venice Cello Ensemble under the direction of Maestro Angelo Zanin performs Cacioppo's GLORIA at the Ateneo Veneto, located steps away from the Teatro La Fenice, the Church of San Fantin, and the Bugno Art Gallery in the sector of San Marco.
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Cape Cod, MA
Robert Gallagher's performance of VISION OF THE CRUSADES by Curt Cacioppo is posted on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWLtMBTTazE. Includes brief oral introduction and visuals and scrolling score. Stained glass photos by Curt Cacioppo. Analytical notes by John Sessions.
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Ascona, Switzerland
Composer/pianist Curt Cacioppo and visual artist Ying Li collaborate in a son et lumière open studio presentation at the Centro Incontri Umani, Monte Verità, Via Signor in Croce 9, 6612, Ascona (Ticino), Switzerland. The program will include the premiere of "Synaesthesis 1", a 15 minute acoustic music and visual film choreography.
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Cape Cod, MA
Completion of tone poem for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia, Costa Rica, in short score. Full score and parts in progress. The 16 minute piece traces events leading to the defeat and execution of William Walker, who sought to transform Central and South America into slave states 160 years ago.
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Cacioppo completes a character piece entitled "Somnamble" for piano solo, a jazz-style tribute to his Sicilian compatriot Vincenzo Bellini's aria "Ah, non credea" from La Sonnambula. That opera is set in Switzerland, and this new piece will serve as a preamble to the composer's upcoming concert there in Ascona.
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Cape Cod, MA
Cacioppo has completed his film score for his presentation with artist Ying Li at the Centro Incontri Umani in Ticino, Switzerland. The 15 minute film, videochoreographed by John Thornton, captures the vivid colors and textures of Li's work. Cacioppo's musical treatment is in direct response to the visual experience. The title of the project is Synaesthesis 1. It will be premiered in early September in Ascona.
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University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
"Invocation and Dance of the Mountain Gods" and "Raven Lance" from Cacioppo's SCENES FROM INDIAN COUNTRY will be performed by the UConn Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Harvey Felder. Felder and Cacioppo dialogue on stage about the music prior to the performance. Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:00pm Storrs Campus Von der Mehden Recital Hall
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Florida International University 7:30PM
The Amernet String Quartet performs NAYENEZGANI: SLAYER OF MONSTERS by Curt Cacioppo at FIU's Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery, 420 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139, on a concert of the New Music Miami/ISCM Festival series. Cacioppo offers remarks about the piece prior to the performance.
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WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
"Women at the Cross" from Curt Cacioppo's recent Navona Records release with the Quartetto di Venezia will be aired on the program NOW IS THE TIME hosted by Kile Smith on WRTI-FM 90.1 at 9 PM. For details, visit http://wrti.org/post/women-cross
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Haverford, PA 1 PM
Pianist Bruce Leto premieres Cacioppo's new solo work "Armed and Dangerous," fantasy-variations based on the Renaissance tune "L'homme armé," Tuesday, 1 PM, MacCrate Recital Hall, Union Building, Haverford College. Cacioppo offers remarks about the piece prior to the performance.
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Haverford, PA
Cacioppo completes a poetic text entitled "A Chanter's Parting" that honors the life of a Navajo ceremonial practioner who came of age in the days before The Long Walk, and sang the healing ways until his death at the age of one hundred and one.
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Cape Cod, MA
Completion of 2 piano piece "The Valiant Crab" for the Orpheus Duo, based on a story told to pianist Althea Waites by her grandmother -- a 7th Ward legend from New Orleans. Read about the Duo at this link: http://www.performingartslive.com/Events/Rolling-Hills-United-Methodist-Church-Orpheus-Duo-Pianists-Althea-Waites-Mark-Uranker-1192014
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Heredia, Costa Rica
Commission for a new work for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia, Costa Rica, to be premiered in 2016. The work is based on music by the 19th century composer and patriot Alejandro Cardona, who helped lead his people to victory over the slave monger William Walker and his filibusters. The performance will coincide with the 160th anniversary of Costa Rica's triumph.
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Vatican City, Rome, Italy
La puntata di "Diapason" dedicata al "Venice Cello Ensemble" andrà in onda il 23 dicembre p.v. alle ore 19.50 in contemporanea sulle frequenze dei :105 Mhz. in FM, sui 585 Khz in onde medie, sul sito della Radio Vaticana www.radiovaticana.org (canale 5), sui canali 12A, 7B del sistema DAB + e sul canale 882 del digitale terrestre televisivo. Il "GLORIA" di Curtis Cacioppo puo` essere sentito in questa trasmissione. Buon ascolto, e Buon Natale!
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First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, 1959 Sandy Ln, Ft. Worth, TX
The Spectrum Chamber Music Series presents the world premiere of Cacioppo's Fantasie-Sonatine for Oboe and Piano (“Souvenirs du Levant”) with Jane Owen, oboe, and Shields-Collins Bray, piano, members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
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Bari, Italy
Emanuele Arciuli hosts a Native American music & art festival in Bari, Italy, entitled LOUIS W. BALLARD and the MUSIC OF THE SOUTHWEST. Featured will be Cacioppo’s “Lyric Visions” and “Snake Dance,” and lectures by Cacioppo on his music and his involvement with Native Americans. Details to be announced.
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DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, United States
DePauw University School of Music professor May Phang will perform a recital of solo piano works Monday night (tonight), including Franz Schubert's monumental "Sonata in B-flat Major." The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Recital Hall, located within the Green Center for the Performing Arts. Among the other works selected for Monday's concert, American composer Curt Cacioppo's "Fantasy-Choruses on This Little Light of Mine."
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Provincetown, MA
Broadcast of Cacioppo's "WOMEN AT THE CROSS" from his new release "RITORNELLO" on Navona Records on WOMR radio's The Latest Score hosted by Canary Burton. Cacioppo as pianist joins the Quartetto di Venezia in this premiere recording of the 7 movement work.
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Hampton, NH
This is the official release date for Cacioppo's new CD entitled "RITORNELLO" on Navona Records. A sequel to the disc "ITALIA," this recording presents music inspired by and composed in Italy in recent years. Much of the material originated in the spring of 2012 while Cacioppo was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. The tracks include: "Divertimenti in Italia" (String Quartet No. 6), written for and performed by the Quartetto di Venezia, the three movements evoking scenery of the Italian Alps, Puglia, and Sicily; a collection of 7 solo piano pieces played by the composer himself, tracing his journeys from the Dolomites to Mt. Etna; and the new piano quintet "Women at the Cross," also composed for the Quartetto di Venezia and performed by them with Cacioppo at the piano, the work consisting of 7 psychological portraits of women who were present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Recorded on location in Italy in July of 2013.
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Durango, CO
Cacioppo discusses and performs his music inspired by nature, and pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett plays his "Pawnee Preludes" during a residency at the national conference of the Native Tree Society in Durango, Colorado. Performances take place at 4PM and 7:30 PM on August 5th at the Community Concert Hall, Ft. Lewis College.
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Burlington, VT
Broadcast of "Ecco Venere" from the new CD "RITONELLO" on WRUV-FM, based in Burlington, VT, 11:32 AM. The official release date of "RITORNELLO" on Navona Records is August 12, and it features a new string quartet and new piano quintet both composed for the Quartetto di Venezia, and a grouping of 7 solo piano pieces under the title "Dalle Dolomiti all'Etna (From the Dolomites to Mt. Etna)". Cacioppo is the pianist on the disc.
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Haverford College, Marshall Auditorium 2 PM
Prior to the concert by the Borromeo Quartet, Cacioppo and Navajo ethicist John Co'ií Cook offer a 45 minute discussion about native life ways in relation to mainstream culture.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 3 pm
The Borromeo String Quartet performs Cacioppo's "Kinaaldá" on the concert artists series at Haverford College. The work celebrates the coming-of-age ceremony of the Navajo. A pre-concert discussion with Cacioppo and his mentor, Navajo spiritual leader John Co'ií Cook, from the Piñon/Upper Burnt Corn Valley region of Diné Bikéyah in Arizona, will begin at 2:00.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 7:30PM
Performances of Cacioppo's Italian-inspired piano works "Epitaph," "a Violetta," "Consolatio," and "Old Swedes (fantasy on 'Santa Lucia')," by Bruce Leto on his GRAND TOUR OF ITALY multimedia recital program.
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Accademia di belle Arti, Venezia 5PM
Performance of music by Curt Cacioppo on a Carnevale program by the Venice Cello Ensemble at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy (San Polo). http://www.polomuseale.venezia.beniculturali.it/eventi-e-mostre/?p=4071
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Philadelphia, PA
"The Universal Spirit" - flutists Adeline Tomasone, Marc Adler and Thomas Meany will perform music from varied faith traditions, both ancient and new, at the Olivet Covenant Presbyterian Church - 22nd & Mt. Vernon St. in Philadelphia on Saturday February 22nd at 7:30. Among works performed will be Curt Cacioppo’s “Prayer to Astarte.”
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Auditorium Celesti, Desenzano del Garda, Italy 8:30pm
Cacioppo's "Luce è Donna" is among 4 works selected for the finals of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Monodramma, to be presented by the NED Ensemble in concert on the Desenzano 2013-14 Stagione Concertistica series. The competition is sponsored by the Verona Opera Academy, Città di Desenzano del Garda, and Editori Suvini Zerboni di Milano. Cacioppo's work, on a text in the medieval sestina form by contemporary poet Luigi Cerantola, is for soprano, Pierrot ensemble, and percussion.
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Marhsall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 2PM
Cacioppo premieres his "Fantaisie-Sonatine (Souvenirs du Levant)" for oboe and piano with oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The work is inspired by medieval sources including music of Machaut and elements of Le Roman de Fauvel. POSTPONED
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WRTI-FM 90.1, Philadelphia, PA & online 10PM
Broadcast of Cacioppo's "Red Dove of Libya" from the Navona Records CD "ITALIA" on the program Now Is the Time with host Kile Smith. Performers from Philadelphia's Network for New Music play this "bubbling work of shadow and light." Hear it on WRTI's HD-2 & Classical Stream. Air time: 10 - 11 PM. http://www.wrti.org/post/bone-colored-light-now-time#.UgcCjWfQBFs.email
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Cape Cod, MA
Completion of new work entitled Fantasie-Sonatine for Oboe and Piano ("Souvenirs levantines"). The 16 minute piece is in honor of Dan Weiss, President of Haverford College, and was written for inaugural activities to take place in October. It is equally dedicated to oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who graduated from Haverford in 1978, and is Cacioppo's long time chamber music collaborator.
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Palazzo Albrizzi, ACIT Venezia, Cannaregio
Cacioppo performs his program "Dalle Dolomiti all'Etna: schizzi pianistici d'Italia" on the Pomeriggi Musicali series at the Goethe Institut/Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca, Palazzo Albrizzi, at 6 PM. More information at www.acitve.it
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Milan, Italy
Cacioppo performs a program of Italian and American music from the new millennium on the Concerti del Chiostro series at the Milan Conservatory. Italian composers Riccardo Piacentini, Franco Cavallone, and Marino Baratello (world premiere) will be represented alongside Cacioppo's own works in a musical tour of Italy entitled "Dalle Dolomiti all’ Aetna: schizzi pianistici d’ Italia." Curtain time is 8:45 PM.
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Preganziol (Treviso), Italy
Beginning July 11th, Cacioppo records his new CD "ITALIA II" with the String Quartet of Venice at Area Magister Studio in Preganziol near Treviso. The disc will include his new quartet, written in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Quartetto di Venezia, entitled "Italian Holiday." He also records another honorary work dedicated to them, a piano quintet on the theme of "Women at the Cross," inspired by his residency in Rome last year. A collection of solo piano pieces recalling impressions of Italy gathered over the years rounds out the program. The album will be issued by Navona Records in April of 2014.
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Torino, Alessandria (Piemonte)
On the 22nd, 23rd & 24th, Cacioppo offers a series of masterclasses at the Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria for composers and pianists, and performs a solo recital of contemporary Italian and American piano music. Among the works he will be playing is Franco Cavallone's "Ombre allungate" (dedicated to him), in its world premiere. His residency is sponsored by Rive Gauche Concerti.
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Provincetown, MA
Cacioppo's "Impressions of Venice" from his Navona Records album ITALIA was broadcast on February 19, 2013 on the program The Latest Score hosted by Canary Burton on WOMR-FM 92.1 Provincetown, MA.
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Smith College, Northampton, MA
Pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett plays the complete PAWNEE PRELUDES on a Music in the Noon Hour Concert at Smith College in Sweeney Concert Hall Tuesday, February 19, 2013 from 12:30-1 pm. For more info, visit www.monicajakucleverett.com.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College 8 pm
Cacioppo appears with baritone Alexander Dobson in a performance of Schubert's WINTERREISE on the Haverford College Artists Series. The occasion marks the inauguration of Haverford's newly rebuilt Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand piano, restored by Cunningham Piano Company of Philadelphia. http://www.alexanderdobson.ca/index.htm http://www.cunninghampiano.com/bosendorfer/
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Burlington, VT
Airplay of LAWS OF THE PIPE on WRUV in Burlington VT. Kinaaldá: Part II: Winter (10am) on the album's release date http://wruv.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?showoid=1366&date=10-30-2012
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North Hampton, NH
Cacioppo's new CD "LAWS OF THE PIPE" will be officially released as Navona Records disc NV5889 on the eve of Native American Heritage Month. The collection includes "Wolf," "Kinaaldá," and "Scenes from Indian Country," all dedicated to American Indian themes. The award winning Borromeo String Quartet are the artists in the second work. The disc's enhanced content package features scores, video and audio clips, and more. Check out the Navona trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5aALyDRGA.
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Long Beach, CA
Kuumba Music releases pianist Althea Waites' new CD "CELEBRATION: Music of American Composers." It features the world premiere recording of Curt Cacioppo’s Philadelphia Diary and her lustrous live performance of his Fantasy-Choruses on “This Little Light of Mine,” a major work dedicated to her. The disc also includes pieces by John W. Work, Margaret Meier, Duke Ellington, and Jeremiah Evans. Available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/altheawaites1.
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Cape Cod, MA
Completion of WOMEN AT THE CROSS for the Quartetto di Venezia in their 30th anniversary year. The 7 movement work for string quartet and piano takes as its theme the women who witnessed the Crucifixion, with a finale devoted to St. James and St. John, the "Sons of Thunder." Cacioppo will appear as pianist with the Quartetto for the premiere in the coming season, date/location TBA.
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Sunset Center, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 8 PM
The Carmel Bach Festival plays a third performance of "Midsummer Air" on its Best of the Fest wrap up concert of favorites from the 75th anniversary season. Info at http://www.bachfestival.org/index.cfm/E-Best_of_the_Fest_Concert_386.htm
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Repeat performance of new work for string chamber orchestra and cembalo commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival, Paul Goodwin, Music Director. The piece is a contemporary response to Bach's "Air on the G String," and takes the place of the original movement in the ensemble's performances of the 3rd Orchestral Suite. Pre-concert talk with composer starts at 12:45. For more information visit the Carmel Bach Festival website at http://www.bachfestival.org/index.cfm/E-The_Power_of_Music_314.htm
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Salinas, CA
Yosal is the Youth Orchestra of Salinas, an El Sistema nucleo founded two years ago. On July 17, Cacioppo gave an informal house concert with Yosal faculty members hosted by community volunteer Joanne Taylor Johnson. On the 17th he presented his music to Yosal students at the Salinas Community Center, and attended the dress rehearsal for the upcoming instrumental/choral concert. On the 23rd he attended the Yosal/Carmel Bach Festival dinner and heard the joint concert at Salinas High School afterward. For more info on Yosal, visit http://yosal.org/.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Cacioppo will be delivering a lecture entitled “Channeling Tradition for the New Millennium” in Sunset Center’s Carpenter Hall, with live examples of his recent music and online examples of his current collaborations with Navona Records.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
World premiere of new work for string chamber orchestra and cembalo commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival, Paul Goodwin, Music Director. The piece is a contemporary response to Bach's "Air on the G String," and will take the place of the original movement in the ensemble's performances of the 3rd Orchestral Suite. Pre-concert talk with composer starts at 12:45. For more information visit the Carmel Bach Festival website at http://www.bachfestival.org/index.cfm/E-The_Power_of_Music_314.htm
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The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
THE CROSSING - Donald Nally, conductor In Concert at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Join The Crossing for an exciting reprise of Curt Cacioppo's Vermillion Vespers (aka Cantata of the Angels). This concert will highlight the extraordinary Mander organ at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill played by Ken Lovett. This performance will be recorded for subsequent broadcast on WRTI-FM. more information coming soon at http://www.crossingchoir.com/mom1_12.html
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Rome, Italy
Completion of String Quartet No. 6, "ITALIAN HOLIDAY," for the Quartetto di Venezia. The three movements of the work are entitled "Trulli Sketches," "In the Dolomites," and "Sorriso a Catania." Written while a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
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American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
During the month of April, Cacioppo will be a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, working on a new quintet for piano and strings for the Quartetto di Venezia and himself, to be premiered during the ensemble's 30th anniversary year in 2013.
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University of Delaware, Gore Hall
Cacioppo records the award winning music of composer Mark Hagerty, including the monumental cycle "The Realm of Possibility" (written for him) and the 10 piece collection "After Duchamp" for a Meyermedia CD release, supported by a Delaware Arts Council grant. Bösendorfer 280 concert grand provided by Cunningham Piano Company. Sessions run March 24 - 27.
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Los Angeles, CA
Hear movements I & II from Cacioppo's "Philadelphia Diary" on the KUSC-FM 'Arts Alive' program as pianist Althea Waites interviews about her February 4th "MUSIC UNTOLD" recital and her upcoming CD release. 8-9 AM Pacific Time, 11-12 EST. "KUSC -- the world's best classical music station."
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Tucson, AZ
“Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman” by Curt Cacioppo on Arizona Public Radio KUAZ-FM/npr 90.5 (performed by the Borromeo String Quartet) 4 broadcasts (Dec. 2011): Sunday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, December 22 at 9:00 p.m Sunday, December 25 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m.
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Tucson, AZ
“Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman” by Curt Cacioppo on Arizona Public Radio KUAZ-FM/npr 90.5 (performed by the Borromeo String Quartet) 4 broadcasts (Dec. 2011): Sunday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, December 22 at 9:00 p.m Sunday, December 25 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m.
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Tucson, AZ
“Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman” by Curt Cacioppo on Arizona Public Radio KUAZ-FM/npr 90.5 (performed by the Borromeo String Quartet) 4 broadcasts (Dec. 2011): Sunday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, December 22 at 9:00 p.m Sunday, December 25 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m.
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Philadelphia, PA
Broadcast of "Red Dove of Libya" on the program NOW IS THE TIME hosted by Kile Smith, streaming on WRTI-HD2. Performers include David Cramer (flute), Angela Zator Nelson (percussion), Kimberly Rowe (harp), Rob Kessleman (bass), with Curt Cacioppo (celesta) and Lily Press (voice-overs), from the recent Navona Records CD "ITALIA."
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Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA
The Borromeo String Quartet gives the East Coast premiere of Cacioppo's "Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman" on a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Pre-concert forum with the composer begins at 1:45. Also, a series of broadcasts of the same begins at 3PM MT as follows: “Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman” by Curt Cacioppo on Arizona Public Radio KUAZ-FM/npr 90.5 (performed by the Borromeo String Quartet) 4 broadcasts (Dec. 2011): Sunday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, December 22 at 9:00 p.m Sunday, December 25 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m.
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MacCrate Recital Hall, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Pianist Emanuele Arciuli and Curt Cacioppo offer a colloquium celebrating the art and music of Native Americans past and present, as part of the Guest Artists Series Thanksgiving tribute. The art of the Anasazi and pueblo peoples will be presented along with contemporary examples by Kevin Red Star and others, and traditional songs will be heard side by side current day crossover music by Taos flutist Robert Mirabal and a host of tribal talents.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
"Lyric Visions from the Pawnee" will be performed by award winning pianist Emanuele Arciuli along with other works inspired and composed by Native Americans in a Thanksgiving tribute concert on the Haverford College Guest Artists Series.
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Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Performance of "Volgi, Beatrice" for soprano and string quartet, based on lines from Dante's Purgatorio, will be presented by the art song ensemble Lyric Fest, Elizabeth Weigle, soprano, with Solomiya Ivakhiv and the Ravenhill String Quartet. http://lyricfest.org/featured1112/to-kiss-the-earth-potter-poet-and-guide/
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Ravenhill Chapel, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
The premiere performance of "Volgi, Beatrice" for soprano and string quartet, based on lines from Dante's Purgatorio, will be presented by the art song ensemble Lyric Fest, Elizabeth Weigle, soprano, with Solomiya Ivakhiv and the Ravenhill String Quartet. http://lyricfest.org/featured1112/to-kiss-the-earth-potter-poet-and-guide/
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Catania, Sicily
L' Associazione Musicale Etnea presenta il pianista Emanuele Arciuli, chi ha vinto il premio Abbiati quest' anno, in concerto a Palazzo Biscari colla musica di Curt Cacioppo – suo lavoro “Visioni liriche dal Tribù Pawnee” basato su canti indigeni nord americani -- in prima esecuzione in Italia
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Treviso, Italy
Curt Cacioppo presenta la sua nuova cantata "Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio" per coro, soprano solo e organo, sul testo del poeta Luigi Cerantola, alla Fondazione Benetton -- commenti e osservazioni del compositore, e la prima esecuzione assoluta del lavoro intero dal coro The Crossing diritto di Maestro Donald Nally, con Scott Dettra, organista, in registrazione -- anche sarà presente il poeta http://www.fbsr.it/
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Venice, Italy
Cacioppo presents his Cantata concertante degli Angeli (Vespero Vermiglio) in recording to a private invited audience at Palazzo Albrizzi in San Polo, Venice. This is the first in person meeting between Cacioppo and the work's librettist, Luigi Cerantola, though the two have been collaborating for three years already electronically. The evening is graciously hosted by Baron Ernesto Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi.
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St. David's Episcopal Church, Wayne, PA
Conductor Donald Nally leads his ensemble THE CROSSING in the world premiere of Curt Cacioppo's "Cantata of the Angels" (aka 'Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio' or 'Vermillion Vespers') in its entirety. Scott Dettra, principal organist of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is featured in the concertante solo part. The concert is in conjunction with the Haverford College Guest Artists Series. For more information, visit http://www.crossingchoir.com/vermillion_vespers.html
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Provincetown, MA
"The Buffalo & the Crow," "The Woman Imitates the Buffalo," "I Hear the Sound of a Child Crying," "Spring is Opening" and "Beloved Emblem" from PAWNEE PRELUDES on the Capstone Records MUSIC OF CURT CACIOPPO album aired August 9, 2011 over 92.1 WOMR's THE LATEST SCORE hosted by Canary Burton.
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North Hampton, NH
July 26 is the official release date for the Navona Records organ music CD “Heavy Pedal.” The disc features DI CIBO CELESTE by Curt Cacioppo, performed by organist Robert Gallagher. The work, commissioned by the Settimana Organistica Internazionle of Piacenza, Italy, is a ciaconna-fantasia on elements from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Cacioppo’s work stands alongside those of four fellow composers, the compilation representing international talent from the U.S., England, Australia, Germany and the Czech Republic. The CD also includes an enhanced content component which allows you to follow the score while listening, read artist biographies and commentaries, view session photos, and more. This is Cacioppo’s 11th composer release. http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Pedal-Works-Organ-Russ/dp/B0055T96ME/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1310669310&sr=1-1
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Bad Harzburg, Germany
The Quartetto di Venezia gives the European premiere of "Impressioni venexiane" on the Bad Harzburg Musiktagen Festival at Bündheimer Schloss. Cacioppo appears on the program as pianist with the quartet in a performance of the Brahms Quintet in f-minor, Op. 34, and also offers his solo piece "Glück auf!"
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Celeseo di Sant'Angelo di Piove - Padova
nella Chiesa Parrocchiale Presentazione della Beata Virgine a Sant'Angelo di Piove, tra Padova e Venezia, l'organista Luigi Celeghin eseguirà brani dalla cantata "Vespero Vermiglio" in collaborazione con il Coro Accademia Musicale di Venezia diretto di Maestro Mario Merigo -- recorded by Televenezia for TV news segment
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Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
The Chamber Singers of Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges, Tian Hui Ng, director, perform Cacioppo's new piece commissioned by them and written in complement with Monteverdi’s “Il Lamento d’ Arianna” in this Center City landmark.
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Leo Rich Theater, Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, AZ
The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music present the Borromeo String Quartet in the world premiere of Curt Cacioppo's "Kinaaldá," a work dedicated to Changing Woman, the principal deity of the Navajo Indians. This completes Cacioppo's cycle of four quartets based on Navajo creation legends. The first quartet in the series, "A Distant Voice Calling," was premiered at the AFCM Winter Festival by the American String Quartet in 2002. Pre-concert interview with James Reel at 7:30.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Performance of "Under the Treaty Elm" and "Boathouse Row" from PHILADELPHIA DIARY by pianist Elitza Harbova, on a Music and Conversation Series appearance by the Andrea Ceccomori-Elitza Harbova flute and piano duo from Italy.
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Venice, Italy
Named to the international Honorary Committee (Comitato d’Onore) for the Quartetto di Venezia concert series at the Fondazione Cini di Venezia, Isola di S. Giorgio, Sala degli Arazzi March – June 2011. Among others on the committee are Piero Farulli, Michele Campanella, Pavel Vernikov and Claus-Christian Schuster.
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Yale University, New Haven, CT
The Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges will be performing at Yale University in Marquand Chapel. The concert will feature a preview of Curt Cacioppo’s “Arianna” as part of the group's RECALLING ARIADNE project. This madrigal sets a text by contemporary Italian poet Luigi Cerantola.
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Vienna, Austria
Albert Sassmann writes about Cacioppo's "Beloved Emblem" from PAWNEE PRELUDES in his new book, "In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister" - Technik und Ästhetik der Klaviermusik für die linke Hand allein ["It is in working within limits that the master reveals himself" - Technique and aesthetic of Piano music for the left hand alone]. Tutzing: Musikverlag Hans Schneider, 2010. ISBN: 978 3 7952 1296 4. (http://www.schneider-musikbuch.de)
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Venice, Italy
Publication of essay "Un pianista nell' Inferno di Dante" in the annual peer reviewed international journal ACOUSTICAL ARTS AND ARTIFACTS: TECHNOLOGY, AESTHETICS, COMMUNICATION (AAA-TAC 7 - 2010), Giovanni Morelli, editor, published by Fabrizio Serra Editore Pisa – Roma under the sponsorship of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto per la Music, Venezia, p. 147 – 154. ISSN 1824-6176 ISSN Elettronico 1825-3873
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MacCrate Recital Hall, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Cacioppo discusses Native American influences in his music, processes of composition in "Crying for Justice," and the completion of his quartet cycle "Womb of the Sacred Mountains." Hosted by the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Orchestra, Heidi Jacob, Music Director.
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Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello," Campo San Stefano, Venezia, Italy
Cacioppo speaks with students and faculty of the Venice Conservatory in a dialogue session about his music. The filmed interview will be produced as a video for educational, promotional and pre-concert use by the Venice Cello Ensemble.
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Palazzo Albrizzi, S. Polo, Venezia, Italy
Curt Cacioppo performs his own music along with that of his son Charles and his mentor Leon Kirchner in the Tempio of Barone Albrizzi's 16th century Venetian palace
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Venice (Mestre, Teatro Kolbe), Italy
The Venice Cello Ensemble (VCE) premieres the "Gloria" from the new cantata "Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio" and performs the "Largo for Strings," both works in versions by the composer scored for 8 cellos. The ensemble is headed by Angelo Zanin, cellist of the Quartetto di Venezia and professor at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice. Il concerto terrà venerdì il 17 ottobre alle ore 17 a Mestre Teatro Kolbe vicino alla chiesa di via Aleardi all'inizio del Corso del Popolo.
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American Academy in Rome, Villa Aurelia
Curt Cacioppo, pianista 14 Ottobre 2010, a Roma, a Villa Aurelia, concerto organizzato dalla compositrice Ada Gentile in collaborazione con l'Ambasciata USA e con l'Accademia Americana. Il programma comprende opere di autori americani (Ingrid Arauco, Charles Cacioppo, Leon Kirchner, Richard Trythall, ed un brano in 1^ assoluta di Curt Cacioppo) ed italiani (Riccardo Piacentini, e due opere commissionate per l'occasione a Beatrice Campodonico e Paolo Porto). Il concerto è della 31^ edizione del Festival di Musica Contemporanea "Nuovi Spazi Musicali" curato dalla Gentile. Encores include the finale movement of Cacioppo's "Philadelphia Diary," and the world premiere of "Consolatio" from his new cantata "Vespero Vermiglio."
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Haverford, PA
Commission from Maestro Tian Hui Ng and the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges for a madrigal to complement Monteverdi's "Lamento d' Arianna" as part of the ensemble's RECALLING ARIADNE program project. The text for Cacioppo's piece is Luigi Cerantola's "Arianna" which contemplates one of Giorgio de Chirico's paintings on this theme.
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Torino, Italy
Pianist and author Emanuele Arciuli gives attention to the piano music of Curt Cacioppo in his new book, published by EDT in Turin, “Musica per pianoforte negli Stati Uniti.” Tre secoli di fortuna pianistica nella storia americana raccontati da uno dei massimi interpreti del nostro tempo. Visit http://www.edt.it/musica/arciuli/ for more.
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Orleans, MA
The new string quartet "KINAALDÁ: the Rite of Changing Woman," for the Borromeo Quartet, is completed. This marks the completion also of the entire cycle "WOMB OF THE SACRED MOUNTAINS," a two hour series of 4 quartets inspired by episodes from the Navajo Creation Story.
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Orleans, Massachusetts
Completion of the Cantata Concertante "Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio" for organ, soprano solo and chorus SATB. The close to one hour work sets a text by the contemporary Italian poet Luigi Cerantola. Cast in 15 sections, it is to be premiered in late March of 2011 in Venice.
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Philadelphia, PA
Curt Cacioppo's work "Lenape Refrains" will be broadcast Saturday, May 1, 2010, 5-6 PM on WRTI's "Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection." "Lenape Refrains" was composed for the Philadelphia Classical Symphony in 2009, and was premiered in Philadelphia and at Haverford last May, under the direction of Karl Middleman, and featuring the renowned clarinetist David Krakauer as soloist. The composer also performs. The American Indian themed program also includes works by the emerging Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, and the 19th century Indianist Edward MacDowell. More information below. Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection Listen to WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia or online at_ wrti.org_. Encore presentations of the entire/ Discoveries/ series every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. on WRTI-HD2
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Hampton, NH
Launch date for the enhanced content website that will accompany Navona Records release "Italia" featuring works by Curt Cacioppo inspired by his travels and sojourns in Italy. The innovative, enhanced content/multi-media website co-sponsored by Naxos will offer video shows synched with the music, video and audio composer commentaries, track and desktop image downloads, program notes in English and Italian, personnel information, and study scores.
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Philadelphia, PA
Curt Cacioppo's Navajo inspired work "Nayénezgani (MONSTERSLAYER)," commissioned and performed by the Emerson String Quartet, will air Sunday night, April 4th at 10 o'clock on the program "Now is the Time" on WRTI-HD2 and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org. The program is hosted by Kile Smith. For more information, visit http://kilesmith.com/on-the-radio/now-is-the-time/
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Long Beach, CA -- Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall, CSULB
Continuation of recording sessions of “Philadelphia Diary” and “Fantasy-Choruses on This Little Light of Mine” by pianist and Steinway artist Althea Waites for her upcoming Kuumba Records CD of American music. (January sessions were curtailed by severe weather.)
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Charlemont Inn, Charlemont, MA
Pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett performs selections from “Pawnee Preludes” on a music & poetry program celebrating the Mohawk Trail State Forest January 23, 2010 at 3 pm at the Charlemont Inn, 107 Main Street, Charlemont, MA 01339-9703
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Long Beach, CA
Recording sessions January 19 - 22 of "Philadelphia Diary" and "Fantasy-Choruses on This Little Light of Mine" by pianist and Steinway artist Althea Waites for her upcoming Kuumba Records CD of American music. Music of the emerging African American composer Jeremiah Evans will also be included in the project.
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Zankel Hall
premiere of "When the Orchard Dances Ceased" for the American Composers Orchestra on the ensemble's "underground" concert series at Zankel (Carnegie) Hall, NYC, Stefan Lano, conductor -- subsequent performance at Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, details to be announced -- for more information, visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/series/brochure/ser_618.html
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Orleans Historical Society, Cape Cod, MA
Pianist Kenneth Fearn performs "¡Angelus!" and selected "Pawnee Preludes" along with other American Indian inspired works by Curt Cacioppo. Fearn is joined by pianist Anne Francoise Perrault in the two piano version of "Ghost Dance."
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Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Pianist Althea Waites once again premieres a work by Curt Cacioppo, this time his colorful "Philadelphia Diary." The composer will be in attendance and speak to the audience prior to the performance of his work. Program also includes music of Bach, Haydn, and Scriabin's Op. 74 Preludes and B-minor Fantasy.
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Palazzo Albrizzi, S. Polo, Venice, Italy
Cacioppo reads his essay "Un pianista nell' Inferno di Dante" to an international audience of distinguished guests in the Tempio Library of Palazzo Albrizzi, San Polo, Venezia, at the invitation of Barone Ernesto Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi
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Venice, Italy
Cacioppo delivers his paper "Un pianista nell' Inferno di Dante" at the invitation of the Fondazione Cini/Universita' Ca' Foscari in conjunction with the world premiere of "Malebolge" by Marino Baratello at the Biennale di Venezia -- Sala del Soffitto, Isola di S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; publication of the essay forthcoming in the Foundation's annual review "Lettera da San Giorgio" November, 2010
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Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA
Airplay/webcast of "Concerto of Oboe and String Chamber Orchestra with Harpsichord" on WOMR Provincetown's 'The Latest Score' with host Canary Burton -- Jonathan Blumenfeld, oboist and Heidi Jacob conducting the Ensemble Solarium, from Capstone Records release CPS-8706 (New Music for Oboe)
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Haverford. PA
completion of work for the American Composers Orchestra, to be premiered November 30 at Zankel (Carnegie) Hall in NY -- a Native American themed composition, the title refers to the episode in 1864 when the Navajo peach orchards in Canyon de Chelly were destroyed by US government forces as part of a scorched earth campaign against the tribe...
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Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 10 PM on WRTI-HD2 and online at http://www.wrti.org/listenlive.html, tune into the program NOW IS THE TIME with host Kile Smith and hear the Fantasy-Choruses on “This Little Light of Mine” by Curt Cacioppo. This is the third of Cacioppo’s piano trilogy THREE AMERICAN FANTASIES for piano. Charles Abramovic is the performer. All 3 piano fantasies can be heard on Capstone Records CD #8713, along with two additional fantasies for organ.
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Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
members of the Philadelphia Orchestra record "Red Dove of Libya" based on the story of the Cult of Venus in Erice, Sicily, for the upcoming all-Cacioppo CD release "ITALIA"
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Haverford College, Haverford, PA
pianist Matthew Bengtson records "On the Road of the Seven Bridges" by Cacioppo for the upcoming one-composer CD "Italia" -- piano pieces to be included are Getreidegasse Nr. 9* Lo studio* Capriccio leggendario** Bagatelle* Apparition* Amusement* Old Swedes (piccola fantasia su “Santa Lucia”)† Reflection* *from "Ciclo matemorfico sul nome d’un Maestro" (1988) **from "Tuscan Folio" (1991, pno version 2006) †from "Philadelphia Diary" (2008)
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Beverly Farms, MA
Pianist Paul Orgel plays "Pawnee Preludes" on a recital benefit for Music at Eden's Edge, a long established chamber music group on the North Shore outside Boston. http://www.edensedge.org/ Point of interest: the Steinway for the concert once belonged to John Barry, film composer, who composed the score for "Dances With Wolves" on it.
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South Philly & Wayne, PA
assembly programs at the George Washington School at 5th and Federal in South Philadelphia and St. Katharine's of Siena School in Wayne, featuring players from the Philadelphia Classical Symphony in selections from "Lenape Refrains," including the Braiding Song the Tarantella.
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Marshall Auditorium/Roberts Hall, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
pianist Althea Waites performs FANTASY-CHORUSES ON "THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE" composed for her by Curt Cacioppo, along with works by Ginastera, Leon, Work, Jeremiah Evans and others on her American Roots Concert Series program
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St. Michael's College, McCarthy Arts Center, Colchester, Vermont
Pianist Paul Orgel plays a recital including works of Dvorak, Busoni, Loomis, Brings, and Curt Cacioppo's "Pawnee Preludes" on his St. Michael's recital this spring. Cacioppo will be on hand to offer pre-concert remarks about his music.
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Haverford, PA
collaboration with the Duo Alterno in performances of "Due Canti Brevi su poesia di C. Saltarelli" and music of Schubert, Debussy, and Piacentini -- presented as part of the Music and Conversation series, Haverford College, MacCrate Recital Hall
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Haverford, PA
collaboration with Ben Pasternack, pianist and Joseph Horowitz, commentator, Guest Artist Series, Haverford College: Friday the 27th at 8 pm, concert featuring "MUSIC OF THE AMERICAN INDIANISTS: Dvorak, Farwell, Busoni, Cacioppo and more," in Marshall Auditorium - pre-concert discussion at 7; Saturday the 28th, 1 PM in MacCrate Recital Hall, colloquium with concert participants on the theme of cultural crossover in music of the American Indianists then and now -- part of the American Roots concert series
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Alfred C. Fuller Music Center, The Hartt School
Curt Cacioppo discusses and plays examples of his music on the ICAM series at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford; program features a performance of WOLF for soprano, cello and piano by Jessica Cain (sopr), Stephen Marotto (vc) and Nathaniel Baker (pno)
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Snow Library, Orleans, MA - Cape Cod
Pianist Kenneth Fearn discusses the "Contrapuntal Fantasy on John Newton's Amazing Grace" for the Lifetime Learning class at Snow Library in Orleans. The piece, dedicated to him, and which he recorded Capstone Records, is the first of THREE AMERICAN FANTASIES.
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Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM), via Magenta, 31 - Torino, Italy
"Crossfade USA-Italia" - music by Cacioppo, Hudson, Shultis, Iamone and Rettagliati. For more info, visit http://www.arpnet.it/rgauche/SITORIVE_MUSICHEINMOSTRA.HTML#2008
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Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, College Park, MD
announcing the premiere of "Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello & piano"* by Charles Cacioppo, one of the winning compositions in the 2008 Walsum Awards Competition, to be performed by members of the Left Bank Concert Society, Gildenhorn Hall, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, College Park, MD *score and parts available through Orenda Press.
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Albuquerque, NM
April 2, 2008 -- world premiere of "Devisidero" for solo piano by Christopher Shultis, written for Curt Cacioppo, Composers Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; also the NM premiere of Cacioppo's own work "¡Angelus!" inspired by the New Mexico landscape -- to be aired on KRZA-FM 88.7 Alamosa, CO & Taos, NM on "Sunday Morning [UN]Classics" hosted by Richard Cameron-Wolfe -- to listen to Devisidero, click here: http://music.unm.edu/media/cshultis/shultis_devisidero.mp3
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Wayne, PA
world premiere of "Nel mezzo del cammin" for organ, Robert Gallagher, organist - St. David's Episcopal Church, Wayne, PA - the piece is dedicated to Dr. Gallagher, and his program is one in a series of inaugurals celebrating the installation of the church's new Dobson organ
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New London, CT
MSR Classics release of new double disc CD "Ancestral Passage" -- live in-concert performances of Curt Cacioppo's chamber music by the Moscow Quartet, American Quartet and Friends Chamber Group, featuring the composer as pianist, with oral commentaries about each work
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Orange County, CA
February 7, 8 and 9 - performances & KUSC-FM broadcast of "Crying for Justice" by the Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair, Music Director, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, OC Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA - all performances feature pre-concert talk with the composer illustrating at the piano, as well as post concert discussion - February 11, 2008 – performances and master classes at Chapman University (including West Coast premieres of "Tucson Scherzo" by members of the Pacific Symphony with Curt Cacioppo at the piano, and "Canti indigeni nordamericani" for a cappella chorus with the Chapman choir, Joseph Modica, Director) - additional seminars and colloquia at Long Beach City College, Orange County High School for the Performing Arts, Pomona College, Irvine Valley College, and interview on KOCE-TV
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Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy
world premiere of "Tucson Scherzo" in the Ex Novo version for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano, performed by the Ensemble Ex Novo of Venice in the Sale Apollinee of the Gran Teatro La Fenice - part of the 2007 Festival Ex Novo Musica -- recorded by RAI radio for subsequent broadcast
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Haverford, PA
performance of "Snake Dance Trio (Soyohim Kachina)" by the Dolce Suono Trio on the Music and Conversation series at Haverford College in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium - start time 4:15 PM -- to see an excerpt from this performance, click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5zy9lGA_c
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First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
performance of "Snake Dance Trio (Soyohim Kachina)" for flute, cello and piano, by the Dolce Suono Trio, featuring flutist Mimi Stillman, cellist Yumi Kendall, and pianist Charles Abramovic -- opening concert on the 2007 Dolce Suono series -- pre-concert panel discussion at 6 PM
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