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World Tour of Music brings Italian folk music to area students
WASHINGTON TWP. – Washington Elementary School students tapped their toes and clapped along as a trio of musicians performed an upbeat folk song that once echoed through the countryside of Italy. While they didn’t understand what was being said, the students knew exactly what was being conveyed. More:Most Stark County schools lifting mask mandate following new COVID-19 quarantine rules “Music is so interesting,” Anthony Taddeo, percussionist and composer for the Cleveland-based Alla Boara musical ensemble, told the students. “Music makes you feel things. It makes you remember things.” That’s exactly what happened to fifth grader Izzy Santee. “That reminded me of a movie I once saw,” Santee told the group after a trio…
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The Timeless Fantasy of Stanley Tucci Eating Italian Food
Several episodes of the CNN series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” open with a message that’s part apology and part warning: “The following episode was filmed prior to the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.” For the couch-bound viewer, any travel show is a portal to fantasy. But a show like this—airing in a time like this—is escapism of another order. Here there are olive trees and cow-dappled hills and the blue-green sea, sure, but also cheek-kiss greetings and crowded piazzas, tiny café tables and narrow alleyways. Tucci, the show’s host, wanders through Italy’s regions unmasked, unfettered, chatting amiably with cheesemakers and pizzaiolos, sipping aperitivos on rooftops, picking up petals of…
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