{"id":290,"date":"2017-12-05T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:29","slug":"italian-open-day-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2016-17-events\/italian-open-day-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open Day (Spring)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy through Images, Words and Music: Award Ceremony and Concert<\/h2>\n

\"Italian<\/p>\n

Wed. April 5 (3-5pm)<\/strong>
\nRoom CELS 110
\nCollege of Science and Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n

RSVP required by Mon. April 3
\nSee\u00a0flyer<\/a>
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The Italian Program in the Department of Spanish and Italian and the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies are pleased to invite all students to attend Italian Open Day (Spring). The event will include presentations by professors and students\u00a0about the unique academic and pre-professional opportunities offered by the Italian Program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, and will embrace\u00a0the award ceremony for the\u00a0video contest: “Adopt an Italian UNESCO Site.<\/a>”\u00a0It will be followed by a special concert of Italian music by the\u00a0Laura Campisi Duo<\/a>,organized by the Italian Club on campus.<\/p>\n

With her\u00a0Italian Jazz<\/em>\u00a0project, Italian-born singer and songwriter Laura Campisi aims at exposing the American audience to the Italian soundscape of the last four or five decades, a repertoire that remains lesser known in the U.S. compared to the canzone napoletana tradition, for instance. Her songbook embraces Italian pieces composed between the 1960s and the present, and revisits them through the fine lens of jazz, combining intimate arrangements and intense Latin-inspired rhythms. Songs include evergreens such as\u00a0Parole parole<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Volare<\/em>, as well as more hidden gems like\u00a0L\u2019appuntamento<\/em>\u00a0by Ornella Vanoni and\u00a0Mi sono innamorato di te<\/em>\u00a0by Luigi Tenco, just to name a few. More recent compositions by Vinicio Capossela, Cristina Dona\u2019, and an original tune by Campisi herself are also featured in this concert. Campisi will closely work with students to develop short presentations about the songs and composers in order to make the event more inclusive and interactive. The songs she will perform come with a story linked to the larger history of Italy that she is keen on sharing to enrich the image of the country, and especially of its more recent and contemporary culture.
\nLaura will be accompanied by Steve Nelson on guitar.<\/p>\n

PRESENTATIONS PROGRAM<\/strong>:<\/p>\n