This edition: Sinatra, An American Icon: a Conversation with Charles Granata
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Original tape date: August 26, 2015. First aired: August 26, 2015.In celebration of Italian American legend - Frank Sinatra - ITALICS goes to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center for a conversation with author Charles Granata, amidst the official exhibition of the Frank Sinatra Centennial, “Sinatra: An American Icon,” curated by the GRAMMY Museum® at L.A. LIVE. Granata is author of “Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording;” producer of historic box sets “A Voice in Time, Frank Sinatra in Hollywood” and “Frank Sinatra: The Complete Recordings 1943-1952;” and producer and engineer for Nancy Sinatra’s weekly radio program, “Nancy for Frank,” on Sirius-XM. Granata discusses the vast musical legend the performer left behind as well as the man beyond the talent that earned Sinatra the sobriquet “The Voice:” his political activity and commitment to social justice for a period of his life.
Guest List
Charles Granata Author - Producer - Historian
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Dean & Executive Director, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
- The Arbëreshë Community & NIAF
- Monday, August 10 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, August 18 - 9:30am
- (Re)Covering America and Italian American Day
- Tuesday, August 11 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, August 19 - 9:30am
- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
- Wednesday, August 12 - 9:30am
- Thursday, August 20 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Thursday, August 13 - 9:30am
- Andrew Spannaus & Giorno della memoria
- Monday, August 17 - 9:30am
- TBA
- Monday, August 24 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, August 25 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, August 26 - 9:30am
- Thursday, August 27 - 9:30am
- Italian American Culture & NOIAW
- Monday, August 31 - 9:30am
- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
- Tuesday, September 1 - 9:30am
- Claudio Pagliara
- Wednesday, September 2 - 9:30am
- CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
- Thursday, September 3 - 9:30am
- THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO: CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI
- Monday, September 7 - 9:30am
- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
- Monday, July 27 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, July 28 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, July 29 - 9:30am
- Thursday, July 30 - 9:30am
- (Re)Covering America and Italian American Day
- Tuesday, July 21 - 9:30am
- Thursday, July 23 - 9:30am
- The Arbëreshë Community & NIAF
- Monday, July 20 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, July 22 - 9:30am
- Andrew Spannaus & Giorno della memoria
- Thursday, July 16 - 9:30am
- Thursday, August 6 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Wednesday, July 15 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, August 5 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Tuesday, July 14 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, August 4 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Monday, July 13 - 9:30am
- Monday, August 3 - 9:30am
