Find it This event is part of the 2013 Chelsea Music Festival   âœOne night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul,â" writes Tartini. The result is the fiendish violin sonata whose story celebrates its 300th anniversary this year. Benjamin Brittenâ's haunting string quartet nicknamed âœDeath in Veniceâ" and âœUn diavolo sentimentaleâ" by the Italian master of film music, Nino Rota, are a nod to Casa Italianaâ's art exhibit The Leap of the Leopard: 1963-2013. Photos from the Set of Il gattopardo.   Tartini - Violin sonata Rota - Un diavolo sentimentale Britten - "Death in Venice" string quartet Verrando - Quartet n. 3 CMF 2013 Ensemble-in-Residence MDI Ensemble Milan and the Momenta Quartet.         A limited number of free seats for this performance will be available exclusively to Casa Italiana members. Please RSVP:   Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start. All seats will be released 10 minutes prior to scheduled start. (For all other inquiries please call 212-998-8739)

Find it The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere is proud to announce âœTaste of Italy,â" the first annual Golf Outing and Bocce Tournament at Silver Lake Golf Course, Staten Island. The event will last from the morning into the night, and celebrity guests that plan to attend are actress Aida Tamburro and NY Metsâ' Great John Franco, a former Major League Baseball player, along with his wife Rose. Enjoy the italian lunch, cocktails and dinner surrounded by gorgeous scenery  in one of the best places to share a meal or a drink.  

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Come and enjoy two days of Pino Daniele's music. The Neapolitan singer is a vocalist, composer, and musician, whose influences cover a wide number of genres, fusing pop, blues, jazz, Italian and Middle Eastern music into his own unique brand of world music. He will play with Tullio De Piscopo (Drums), Rino Zurzolo (Bass), Elisabetta Serio (Keys/Piano) and Awa Ly (Vocals).

Doors 6pm // Show 8pm

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In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time. Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Ravenna and Desiderio da Firenze, this selection includes independent figural statuettes as well as functional objects created in key centers of Italian bronze production, in particular Padua and Venice.

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bronze statuettes were generally displayed in private studies, where they were accompanied by functional aids to scholarship such as inkwells, writing boxes, and candleholders. The scholars who inhabited these studies often had a profound interest in classical antiquity. Thus, it is unsurprising that classicizing motifs and figures from Greco-Roman mythology abound in these small works in bronze.

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Discover how cultures around the world rely on plants for everything--from food and medicine to cosmetics--through a stunning re-creation of Europe's first botanical garden in Padua and surprising displays of healing plants featuring research by several NYBG experts. Explore a fascinating presentation of rare books and manuscripts known as herbals, as well as engaging science adventures for kids, and much more.

Healing Plants Around the World features the research of some of the Garden's leading experts in science, medicine, and ethnobotany. Explore plants such as the cinchona tree, the source of quinine, which treats malaria, and white willow, whose bark leads to the production of aspirin. More than 400 species or cultivars of medicinal plants are showcased, most of them grown in the Garden's glasshouses, making this one of the largest exhibitions of medicinal plants ever mounted.

The Italian Renaissance Garden is inspired by Europe's first botanical garden, created in 1545 at the University of Padua, in the Venetian Republic. A lush landscape of Mediterranean flowers, including exotic varieties, endangered species, and medicinal plants, are classically composed to evoke the original design that remains at Padua to this day.

Adult All-Garden Pass tickets start at $20.

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The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual. An amateur violinist and violist, Lam bought his first important violin in the 1960s and assembled his impressive collection of violins and bows over the next twenty-five years. His holdings eventually included such significant instruments as the "Baltic" violin by Giuseppe Guarneri "del Gesù," the "Bavarian" and "Scotland University" violins by Antonio Stradivari, the "ex Collin" violin by Nicolò Amati, an extremely early viola by Andrea Amati, and Lam's favorite violin, an instrument by Giuseppe Guarneri, one of his earliest acquisitions

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Concrete Temple Theatre presents Geppetto at HERE 145 Sixth Ave (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring) June 13-30th Thursday-Monday at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM and 7 PM Tickets: $20/$15 students & seniors For tickets: visit here.org or call 212-352-3101, Box Office: open after 5 PM on show days or 2 hours before any performance. Check out Geppetto trailer: https://vimeo.com/63011149 Additional information: http://www.ConcreteTempleTheatre.com Performed and Designed by: Carlo Adinolfi Text and Direction by: Renee Philippi With Original Music by: Lewis Flinn GEPPETTO meshes two of our favorite stories, Pinocchio and The Old Man And The Sea, to tell a heart-breaking and hilarious tale of prosthetics and aging. It contemplates resilience in the face of change and loss.

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In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time. Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Ravenna and Desiderio da Firenze, this selection includes independent figural statuettes as well as functional objects created in key centers of Italian bronze production, in particular Padua and Venice.

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bronze statuettes were generally displayed in private studies, where they were accompanied by functional aids to scholarship such as inkwells, writing boxes, and candleholders. The scholars who inhabited these studies often had a profound interest in classical antiquity. Thus, it is unsurprising that classicizing motifs and figures from Greco-Roman mythology abound in these small works in bronze.

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Discover how cultures around the world rely on plants for everything--from food and medicine to cosmetics--through a stunning re-creation of Europe's first botanical garden in Padua and surprising displays of healing plants featuring research by several NYBG experts. Explore a fascinating presentation of rare books and manuscripts known as herbals, as well as engaging science adventures for kids, and much more.

Healing Plants Around the World features the research of some of the Garden's leading experts in science, medicine, and ethnobotany. Explore plants such as the cinchona tree, the source of quinine, which treats malaria, and white willow, whose bark leads to the production of aspirin. More than 400 species or cultivars of medicinal plants are showcased, most of them grown in the Garden's glasshouses, making this one of the largest exhibitions of medicinal plants ever mounted.

The Italian Renaissance Garden is inspired by Europe's first botanical garden, created in 1545 at the University of Padua, in the Venetian Republic. A lush landscape of Mediterranean flowers, including exotic varieties, endangered species, and medicinal plants, are classically composed to evoke the original design that remains at Padua to this day.

Adult All-Garden Pass tickets start at $20.

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The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual. An amateur violinist and violist, Lam bought his first important violin in the 1960s and assembled his impressive collection of violins and bows over the next twenty-five years. His holdings eventually included such significant instruments as the "Baltic" violin by Giuseppe Guarneri "del Gesù," the "Bavarian" and "Scotland University" violins by Antonio Stradivari, the "ex Collin" violin by Nicolò Amati, an extremely early viola by Andrea Amati, and Lam's favorite violin, an instrument by Giuseppe Guarneri, one of his earliest acquisitions

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Concrete Temple Theatre presents Geppetto at HERE 145 Sixth Ave (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring) June 13-30th Thursday-Monday at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM and 7 PM Tickets: $20/$15 students & seniors For tickets: visit here.org or call 212-352-3101, Box Office: open after 5 PM on show days or 2 hours before any performance. Check out Geppetto trailer: https://vimeo.com/63011149 Additional information: http://www.ConcreteTempleTheatre.com Performed and Designed by: Carlo Adinolfi Text and Direction by: Renee Philippi With Original Music by: Lewis Flinn GEPPETTO meshes two of our favorite stories, Pinocchio and The Old Man And The Sea, to tell a heart-breaking and hilarious tale of prosthetics and aging. It contemplates resilience in the face of change and loss.

Find it

In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time. Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Ravenna and Desiderio da Firenze, this selection includes independent figural statuettes as well as functional objects created in key centers of Italian bronze production, in particular Padua and Venice.

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bronze statuettes were generally displayed in private studies, where they were accompanied by functional aids to scholarship such as inkwells, writing boxes, and candleholders. The scholars who inhabited these studies often had a profound interest in classical antiquity. Thus, it is unsurprising that classicizing motifs and figures from Greco-Roman mythology abound in these small works in bronze.

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Discover how cultures around the world rely on plants for everything--from food and medicine to cosmetics--through a stunning re-creation of Europe's first botanical garden in Padua and surprising displays of healing plants featuring research by several NYBG experts. Explore a fascinating presentation of rare books and manuscripts known as herbals, as well as engaging science adventures for kids, and much more.

Healing Plants Around the World features the research of some of the Garden's leading experts in science, medicine, and ethnobotany. Explore plants such as the cinchona tree, the source of quinine, which treats malaria, and white willow, whose bark leads to the production of aspirin. More than 400 species or cultivars of medicinal plants are showcased, most of them grown in the Garden's glasshouses, making this one of the largest exhibitions of medicinal plants ever mounted.

The Italian Renaissance Garden is inspired by Europe's first botanical garden, created in 1545 at the University of Padua, in the Venetian Republic. A lush landscape of Mediterranean flowers, including exotic varieties, endangered species, and medicinal plants, are classically composed to evoke the original design that remains at Padua to this day.

Adult All-Garden Pass tickets start at $20.

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The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual. An amateur violinist and violist, Lam bought his first important violin in the 1960s and assembled his impressive collection of violins and bows over the next twenty-five years. His holdings eventually included such significant instruments as the "Baltic" violin by Giuseppe Guarneri "del Gesù," the "Bavarian" and "Scotland University" violins by Antonio Stradivari, the "ex Collin" violin by Nicolò Amati, an extremely early viola by Andrea Amati, and Lam's favorite violin, an instrument by Giuseppe Guarneri, one of his earliest acquisitions

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Concrete Temple Theatre presents Geppetto at HERE 145 Sixth Ave (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring) June 13-30th Thursday-Monday at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM and 7 PM Tickets: $20/$15 students & seniors For tickets: visit here.org or call 212-352-3101, Box Office: open after 5 PM on show days or 2 hours before any performance. Check out Geppetto trailer: https://vimeo.com/63011149 Additional information: http://www.ConcreteTempleTheatre.com Performed and Designed by: Carlo Adinolfi Text and Direction by: Renee Philippi With Original Music by: Lewis Flinn GEPPETTO meshes two of our favorite stories, Pinocchio and The Old Man And The Sea, to tell a heart-breaking and hilarious tale of prosthetics and aging. It contemplates resilience in the face of change and loss.

Find it

In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time. Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Ravenna and Desiderio da Firenze, this selection includes independent figural statuettes as well as functional objects created in key centers of Italian bronze production, in particular Padua and Venice.

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bronze statuettes were generally displayed in private studies, where they were accompanied by functional aids to scholarship such as inkwells, writing boxes, and candleholders. The scholars who inhabited these studies often had a profound interest in classical antiquity. Thus, it is unsurprising that classicizing motifs and figures from Greco-Roman mythology abound in these small works in bronze.

Find it

Discover how cultures around the world rely on plants for everything--from food and medicine to cosmetics--through a stunning re-creation of Europe's first botanical garden in Padua and surprising displays of healing plants featuring research by several NYBG experts. Explore a fascinating presentation of rare books and manuscripts known as herbals, as well as engaging science adventures for kids, and much more.

Healing Plants Around the World features the research of some of the Garden's leading experts in science, medicine, and ethnobotany. Explore plants such as the cinchona tree, the source of quinine, which treats malaria, and white willow, whose bark leads to the production of aspirin. More than 400 species or cultivars of medicinal plants are showcased, most of them grown in the Garden's glasshouses, making this one of the largest exhibitions of medicinal plants ever mounted.

The Italian Renaissance Garden is inspired by Europe's first botanical garden, created in 1545 at the University of Padua, in the Venetian Republic. A lush landscape of Mediterranean flowers, including exotic varieties, endangered species, and medicinal plants, are classically composed to evoke the original design that remains at Padua to this day.

Adult All-Garden Pass tickets start at $20.

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The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual. An amateur violinist and violist, Lam bought his first important violin in the 1960s and assembled his impressive collection of violins and bows over the next twenty-five years. His holdings eventually included such significant instruments as the "Baltic" violin by Giuseppe Guarneri "del Gesù," the "Bavarian" and "Scotland University" violins by Antonio Stradivari, the "ex Collin" violin by Nicolò Amati, an extremely early viola by Andrea Amati, and Lam's favorite violin, an instrument by Giuseppe Guarneri, one of his earliest acquisitions