Musicians, fans, family praise work of Neapolitan artist Pino Daniele, who died at age 59 on Monday January 5th, 2015.
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Tag: music
Bursting into song in the Pazzi Chapel (VIDEO)
On Thursday, December 4 at 4pm, Canadian-Italian mezzosoprano Diana Di Mauro burst into song in the Pazzi Chapel in the complex of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. Inspired by the space, Di Mauro sang five operatic pieces and a Christmas carol.
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Stevie Wonder sold-out crowd of over 10,000 in Lucca
Stevie Wonder played to a sold-out crowd of over 10,000 on Sunday night at Lucca Summer Festival in Tuscany.
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All Star Brand at the Porretta Soul Festival
The Porretta Soul Festival (July 17-20, 2014), founded by Graziano Uliani, is in its 27th year. The town is between Florence and Bologna.
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MTV Awards 2014 will be back to Florence
MTV Awards 2014 will be back to Florence. The new edition of the Italian MTV show will no longer be at Piazzale Michelangelo but inside the Cascine Park.
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The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado died at 80
Tributes flowed Monday for world-renowned conductor Claudio Abbado, whose long career in such cities as Milan, London, Vienna, Chicago and Berlin was remembered along with his devotion to music and Italian culture.
Read moreZubin Mehta opens 75th “Maggio Music Festival”
Zubin Mehta inaugurated the 75th edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino proposing one of the masterpieces of the musical culture of Central Europe, the Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is missing from Florence since 1989. After the White Night, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence back in the streets for the arrival of the 75th Festival.
World-Bach Fest, Palazzo Vecchio will open by night
For three days the music of Johann Sebastian Bach will resound throughout Florence. World-Bach Fest will be held in Florence on March, 9, 10 and 11, 2012 and will bring to the Tuscan city all the fans of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Marino Marini museum, art and electronic music
The Marino Marini Museum in piazza San Pancrazio, Florence, Italy, is hosting the first edition of “International Feel – Live at the Museum”, a much-anticipated series of six performances of music and video art, featuring some of the biggest international artists.