Italian music in Boston
Tonight, don't miss the new music ensemble L'arsenale in Cambridge, MA: these great performers from Italy are playing music by composers Beat Furrer , Salvatore Sciarrino , Federico Costanza , Riccardo Vaglini , N. Buso, and Michele Tadini . Suggestioni, a festival of Italian music This event is part of Suggestioni 2011, a festival of Italian music in the United States. I am thrilled because both co-founders are composers, and friends. Gabriele Vanoni is a fellow Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University's Music Department , while Davide Ianni is a Ph.D. candidate over the river at Boston University , where he works with Joshua Fineberg . I hope they will get to collaborate with another remarkable composer of the same generation: Daniele Bravi . I just spent two great days in Roma, where he was a wonderful host. We have known each other since we were both fellows of the seminar De musica at Villa Medici with Pascal Dusapin . And we had a great time in Strasbourg, too, when