Popular Tenor Salvatore Chiarelli To Perform at Manhattan College

Popular tenor and New York City native Salvatore Chiarelli will perform at Manhattan College on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 12:00 p.m in Smith Auditorium. He will be joined by professional soprano Elga Johannes. The event, which is sponsored by Manhattan’s advisory committee on diversity, will feature an afternoon of Italian/Neapolitan songs, Italian opera, American love ballards and musical theater. Chiarelli vocally trained in both Italy and New York for the opera and has performed extensively on the stages of both North America and Europe. He has been heard on television, radio and satellite TV, reaching 75 countries and has also done two 60-minute concert specials for Westchester Cablevision Channel 74 earlier this year. In 2008, Chiarelli began an East Coast concert tour as a soloist, stopping in more than 100 cities and towns. His live June 23rd luncheon show at Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester, N.Y., was aired extensively on local cable for the months of July and August. Chiarelli’s 2006 CD Due Terre, Un Cuore includes 15 tracks of opera, Neapolitan songs and musical theater.

 

College Hosts Premiere of Film on Evolution of Mexican-American Music

Manhattan College will host the premiere of the film The Chicano Wave/La Onda Chicana, a documentary which explores the evolution of Mexican-American music. The event, presented by the history department, modern foreign languages and the provost’s office in celebration of Latino Heritage Month, will be held on Thursday, Sept. 10 in the Rodriguez Room of Miguel Hall. The film, to be broadcast nationally in October as part of the four-hour series Latin Music USA, examines the struggle of Chicano artists – among them Ritchie Valens, Freddie Fender, Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt and Selena – against discrimination and their move from the fringes to the national stage, profoundly influencing American popular music in the process. Read.

 

Slave Hunter Author Aaron Cohen Visits Manhattan College

Aaron Cohen, the author of Slave Hunter, will read from his acclaimed book on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is part of Freedom Week, which aims to raise awareness of modern-day slavery. Slave Hunter recounts Cohen’s firsthand experiences as a rocker who became an anti-slavery activist working to free victims from bondage around the world. The incredible odyssey follows him from his California rock-star life in the company of legendary musicians all the way to the war zones, refugee camps and brothels of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. In these places, he takes on treacherous rescue missions in search of modern-day slaves and lays bare the secrets behind trafficking networks. Read. For more information, contact campus ministry and social Action at (718) 862-7142 or e-mail scicuto.student@manhattan.edu.