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Free Email: Get World Watch Delivered ITALY Over the past decade, Islam has become Italy's second-largest religion - yet it has never achieved official government recognition. But now Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu is launching negotiations with Muslim leaders that would sanction religious holidays, schools, weddings and the right to receive state funding. In an interview with TIME, Pisanu revealed plans to convene an "Islamic Italian Council" of Muslim leaders, echoing recent efforts in France. Though Islam is Italy's fastest-growing religion, the vast majority of the country's 1 million-plus Muslims are immigrants, and only about...
This weekend, the Fellows will sing a number of madrigals in both English and Italian, taken from the Fellows’s usual repertoire. The canticles of Ned Rorem, a composer who has set much poetry and literature to music, will round out the performance...
Speak, Stone begins with a haunting chant-like melody as the camera of Jacob Richman ’03 pans from an ancient Italian cityscape to a single stone, clothesline and church. Richman’s video, the product of a summer spent researching Sardinian folk singing, is a meditation on harmony. And harmony exists on many levels in the short, pastoral video...
Richman weaves the coexisting opposites of ancient landscape and music together with images of young people socializing in the city’s streets, bars and gelaterias. The ancient Italian city is contrasted with the bustle and chatter of human life. The film is beautiful and transporting. At Arts First, Richman will show Dialogue, a short film on a single actor’s movement through changing vistas...
...planned expansion to the site—previously occupied by the Italian restaurant Gianinno’s—into a public plaza is drawing the fire of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a group which has lead the charge against commercialization of the Square and intrusion upon public spaces...