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Journées Dante Alighieri in Montauban, France (2021)

March 27, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“La soirée inaugurale des Journées Dante Alighieri a rassemblé le monde de la culture, les élus et de nombreux italophones au théâtre Olympe-de-Gouges. Un vrai succès pour cette institution culturelle italienne, la plus ancienne et la plus prestigieuse dans le monde, implantée à Montauban depuis plus de cinquante ans. Pour son président Alain Crivella : ‘J’ai le grand honneur d’ouvrir ces journées avec vous, le rôle de Dante dans la création de l’Italie est prépondérant, son message 700 ans après sa mort incroyablement actuel et universel. Écrivain hors pair et théoricien politique, linguiste, il a fait face à la crise idéologique du Moyen Âge en défendant la spiritualité face aux valeurs marchandes.’

“Aujourd’hui à 18 h 30 au Théâtre Olympe de Gouges, deux artistes, Odile Cariteau et Cathy Teil, exposent entre peintures figuratives et abstraites, enluminures, écritures, collages, elles retranscrivent l’univers dantesque.” [. . .]    —Ladepeche.fr, February 2, 2021 (retrieved March 27, 2022)

Categories: Performing Arts, Places
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Arts Festivals, Cultural Centers, Dante Days, France, Montauban, Music, Readings

Dante’s Inferno Song, Whirlybird (2019)

March 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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On October 9, 2019, American band Whirlybird released their EP Hot Flashes which included a song called “Dante’s Inferno”. The lyrics make reference to Dante’s journey through Hell, stating: “Dante’s coming through the inferno”.

Listen to the song here.

View the full lyrics of “Dante’s Inferno” here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2019, American Music, Indie Rock, Inferno, Music, Songs, United States

Serata Dantesca at Dante Season 2021

February 7, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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On November 13, 2021, the collaborative effort behind Dante in Oxford hosted the “Serata Dantesca” event. The performance was described as:

“A programme of music, poetry, and dance presented in the Holywell Music Room, featuring performers who are almost all Oxford-based teachers, researchers, and students. In addition to Italian and English readings and some older choral and solo musical compositions, new translations and settings have been specially commissioned for this commemorative occasion marking the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Italian poet.”    —TORCH (retrieved February 7, 2022)

More information about the “Serata Dantesca” and its programming can be found here.

Other Dante in Oxford posts can be found here.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Dance, Dante in Oxford, Music, Oxford, Poetry, Recitation, United Kingdom

La vita nuova EP, Christine and the Queens (2020)

January 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

la_vita_nuova_christine_and_the_queens_album_coverFrench singer-songwriter Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier (AKA Christine and the Queens) released their electropop EP La vita nuova on February 27, 2020. The album’s title makes explicit reference to Dante’s text La vita nuova. The album was accompanied by a short film featuring Christine and her relationship with a mysterious figure known as “The Faun”.

Watch the short film and listen to the EP here.

Read a review of the EP, posted on Pitchfork, here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Albums, Electronic Music, Electropop, France, French Music, La vita nuova, Music, Short Films

Demon’s Gate by Candlemass

January 6, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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The lyrics “I went into the demon’s gate / Across the Styx among the mists of Hades / A gate of stone marks the path / To soul’s damnation and hell’s wrath” are “a nice homage to Dante’s epic writing style,” according to Loudwire’s Katy Irizary.

Read the full Loudwire article here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts, Written Word
Tagged with: Journalism, Loudwire, Music, Rock Music

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