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Programs for 2007-2008
All events are offered free of charge by the Dorothea
van Dyke McLane Association to anyone in the community with an interest
in Italian culture. Programs are followed by informal get-togethers
where one can chat with old and new friends, and taste dishes and offerings
brought by participants.
In case of cancellation of a program due to inclement
weather or unexpected reasons, please check this Web site or call Dorothea's
House for information.
click here
for a pdf version, which includes an Italian
translation.
Sunday, October 7, 2007 at
5:00 pm
Priest, Parish, and People:
Richard N. Juliani will discuss his
most recent publication, an ethnographic story about a most unusual
priest and the growth of parishes to meet the needs of a rapidly growing
immigration population. The lecture will provide insights about Americanization
and the formation of ethnic identity. Dr. Juliani is a Professor of
Sociology at Villanova University. His research and writing have focused
upon the Italian experience in the United States. Copies of his book
will be available.
Sunday November 4, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Contemporary Trends in Italian
Theater: A journey through the different types of performances
offered on the Italian stage today: entertainment, new Italian plays,
experimental theatre, works in dialect, musicals, and operettas. A presentation
with images and short readings of recent theatrical works, pictures
of theatre halls, actors, playwrights, will be presented by Alberto
Bentoglio, professor of Contemporary Theatre at Milan Università
degli Studi, curator of iconographic exhibitions at Museo del Teatro
at La Scala Theatre in Milan, and author of many essays.
Sunday December 2, 2007 at 5:00
pm
Italy Unveils Cosmic Masterpieces:
Experience the beautiful and amazing discoveries in our New Solar System
by Italian space scientists at the cutting edge of research as they
construct and work on the International Space Station (ISS) and search
for life-giving water on the red planet Mars. See the fruits of Italian
technology transmitting breathtaking vistas from the Cassini spacecraft
at Saturn and chasing a comet aboard the Rosetta. Dr.
Ken Kremer, research scientist and NASA JPL Solar System
Ambassador, is the author of articles and Mars images in numerous magazines
and other media. 3-D glasses will be provided for this presentation.
Sunday January 13, 2008 at 5:00
pm
Polenta Festival!
If you have a polenta recipe that you want us to taste, please bring
it in and party with us. Music will be provided by Cajan Spice:
Folk Music from Louisiana with Tom Tonon, Jessi
Sanner and Friends
Sunday February 10, 2008 at 5:00
pm
Opera and Carnival
in Venice: In a climate of festivities and vivacious
cosmopolitism, the Venetian Carnival in the past as in the present has
always been identified with theatrical representations, masks, dance,
and music. Wendy Heller is Associate
Professor of Music at Princeton University whose research interests
encompass late Renaissance and Baroque Music, opera studies, women and
music, and Jewish music.
Sunday March 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Melancholy or Misreading?
Dr. Elizabeth Pilliod, professor of art history at Rutgers-Camden,
discusses the life of Jacopo da Pontormo, a leading painter in 16th
century Florence and how the discovery of his diary led to the notion
that he was at the very least eccentric and quite possibly disturbed!
Come unravel the mystery of the artist, his work, and his psyche
Sunday April 6, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Mario LanzaThe Man Who Chose
Hollywood over Opera: When 26 year-old opera singer Mario
Lanza appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, Louis B. Mayer was in the audience.
As a result, Mayer, the head of MGM, invited Lanza to take a screen
test. The rest, as they say, is history. Join us as Sandy
Steiglitz, who hosts operatic radio programs on Princeton
Universitys radio station, WPRB, guides us through selections
from Lanzas motion pictures and some operatic arias as well.
Sunday May 4, 2008 at 6:00 pm
The Slow Food Movement:
Founded in Italy in 1986, it stands for taste, tradition, and the honest
pleasures of food. Founder Carlo Petrini wanted to reach out to consumers
and demonstrate to them that they have choices over fast food and supermarket
homogenization. Join food writers Pat Tanner
and Faith Bahadurian, from the Slow
Food Central New Jersey chapter, as they discuss Slow Food and how you
can bring a little Slow into your life. Pat Tanner, a founder
and co-leader of Slow Food Central NJ, is the restaurant critic for
New Jersey Life magazine. Faith Bahadurian reviews restaurants for TIMEOFF,
the magazine of Packet Publications. Faith and Pat alternate weeks writing
the In The Kitchen column for the Princeton Packet
Let's Go to The
Movies
Do you love
Italian Films?
We will show the following films in
Italian with English subtitles. Come and enjoy!
January 20, 2008 at 3 pm:
Tickets
(2006) directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, e Ken Loach
February 17, 2008 at 3 pm: The
Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sulloceano),
(1998) directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
March 16, 2008 at 3 pm: The
Golden Door (Nuovomondo), (2006) directed by Emanuele
Crialese
You can see these events
in a Google calendar and download them to yours: Click the link below:
Dorothea's
House Google Calendar
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Past Programs at
Dorothea's House
2004
Feb. - Dreyden Ensemble performs Italian baroque music on period
instruments
April - Anne Leader talks about the Orange Cloister at the Badia
Fiorentina
May - A Pirandellian evening with students from Princeton University
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Lidia Bastianich
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2003
Feb. - Fundraiser with restaurateur and cookbook
author Lidia Bastianich
Click
here for Princeton Packet article
April - Evening of poetry from Loretta Casalaina
and Maria Fama
May - Wine tasting from Tony Prospero of Prospero
Winery in Pleasantville, N.Y.
2002
Feb. - Chemist Felix Buccellato lectures on Italian
citrus oils used in perfume
May - Metropolitan Opera conductor Gildo DiNunzio
on backstage musical effects
Oct. - Bloomfield mandolin orchestra presents
Italian music and sing-along
Philadelphia folk dance group "Ballerini e Voci
d'Italia"
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Tony Prospero of Prospero Winery
2001
April - Metropolitan Opera prompter Jane Klaviter
on secrets below the stage
May - Local artists display paintings, sculpture
Dec. - Folkdance group from Philadelphia "Ballerini
e Voci d'Italia"
2000
March - Concert by flutist Claire Durand Racamato
and pianist Marianne Lauffer
May - Photographer Holly Smith Pedlosky captures
intimacies in Venice
Nov. - Lecture on paper making in Fabriano by Raffaele
Roncalli
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1999
April - Italian author Gina Lagorio recounts her
experiences as a writer
Nov. - 15th Century Florence lecture by art historian
Elena Welm
Dec. - A portrait of Verdi's Violetta by Metropolitan
Opera conductor Joseph Colaneri
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1998
April - Mozzarella making demonstration
Nov. - Maria LoBiondo upholds tradition of Italian
story-telling
Dec. - Lecture on Leonardo Sciascia by Strathclyde
University's Professor Joseph Farrell
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1997
Jan. - Sister Margherita Marchione introduces her
book "Yours is a Precious Witness"
April - Facts and fiction about olives and olive
oil by Clo Treves and Milena Troiano
Nov. - Lecture on Trevi Fountain history by Professor
John Pinto
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1996
Feb. - A Dante evening with Professor Robert Hollander
April - Robert Browning in Italy - lecture by Lillian
Mariano Chance
Oct. - Inspired by Italy watercolors by Marge Chavooshian
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Chris Tamasi giving a cooking demonstration in 1994
1993
March - Italian general consul and lawyer from Stark
& Stark on legal issues
Oct. - Lecture on Italians in New Jersey by Professor
Remigio Pane
Nov. - Lecture on Italians in Princeton by Robert
Immordino and Ciro Poppiti
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1995
Feb. - Venice during Carnevale lecture and slides
by Carla Olsen
March - Giuseppe Verdi comes to Dorothea's House
by way of Eduardo Mangella
Nov. - Gardens of Villa Lante slide show and lecture
by architect Kevin Wilkes
1994
Jan. - Lecture by Professor Pietro Frassica on letters
to Pirandello by Marta Abba
Feb. - Boheme Opera Company's Sandra Pucciatti on
insider's guide to opera
Nov. - Italian baroque music by Westminster choir
group and Nancy Perella
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1992
Jan. - Architect Michael Mostoller lectures on Palladio
April - Traditional pig roast
May - Professor Lucy Nardella talks about Siena's
Palio
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1991
Feb. - Operatic performance by singers of the Boheme
Opera Company
March - An armchair tour of the Dolomite region
Oct. - DeFranco family and Calabrian folk music
and dancing
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1990
Jan. - Lecture on the Etruscans by Professor Maria
Teresa Moevs
April - Slide show and talk on Molise and Pettoranello
by Antonio Pirone
May - Italian folkdancing with the Montclair Folk
Group
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1989
Oct. - Dorothea's House 75th Anniversary Celebration
March - Renaissance Rome lecture by Professor Laurie
Nussdorfer
Nov. - Lecture on operas of Mascagni by Alan Mallach
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1988
Jan. - Lecture on Sicily by Professor Pietro Frassica
and Dr. Frank Campo
Feb. - Carnevale celebration
Oct. - Italian Fashion show and historical lecture
by Rene Battaglia
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1987
Jan. - Architect Fred Travisano gives lecture on
Italian hill town architecture
May - Concert by cellist Gino Treves and string
quartet
Oct. - Villa Banfi wine-tasting; Bob Freda demonstrates
home wine-making
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1986
Oct. - Wine tasting program
Nov. - Italian movie "Tre Fratelli"
Dec. - Prosciutto making demonstration by Dominic
Tamasi
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