The Italian Tribune La Tribuna del Popolo 99 YEARS YOUNG AND STILL GOING STRONG! For hourly news updates from visit us online: www.italian-tribune.com VOL. 99 NO. 2 Friday, Jan. 25 - Feb. 7, 2008 • P.O. Box 380407 • Clinton Twp., MI 48038 • E-mail: [email protected] • (586) 783-3260 FREE 43297 Garfield • Clinton Twp. • 586-286-1100 Exam & 2 X-Rays 10575 Morang • Detroit • 313-884-5477 1st visit, Cond. Apply Italian Soave Returns to Michigan Community Calendar th FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008 for 10 Anniversary Concert Conca D’Oro Club nternationally renowned accordionist Peter The 14th Annual Wild Game Dinner will be held at the Soave will return to Michigan when Mirage Banquet hall (16980 18 Mile Rd.). Appetizers will Chamber Music at the Scarab Club and begin at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Cost is I $55 at the door. The menu will include elk, antelope, white Marygrove College present a concert Sunday, tail deer, pheasant, fish and more. Part of the proceeds Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Denk Chapman Hall will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Light of at Marygrove College. Life. For info, call Vince Vultaggio at (586) 992-1665. Tickets are $18 when reserved by calling IACL Charitable Foundation (248) 474-8930 and $20 at the door. Students The 9th Annual Wild Game Extravaganza will open its under 25 with ID are $10. doors at 6 p.m. and dinner will begin at 7 p.m. There will Of Italian descent and born Pietro be a gun raffle for a Browning, Beretta, Benelli and many Antonio Soave, his earliest memories are of more. Tickets are $750 for a table of ten with corporate music played on an accordion. He insists that sponsorship. Parking is limited, so please share a ride. by age three, he was certain of his life’s work. For information, call Alfredo DeFlaviis at (734) 751-7373. At 16, Soave entered international accordion SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2008 competitions and quickly learned the Chimenti Empowerment Show limitations of the accordion. This Be present at the taping of “Discover Your Power to instrument had been superceded by the Succeed!” hosted by author and empowerment presenter chromatic button accordion developed in Sandra Agazzi Chimenti, M.Ed. The videotaping will take for , the bayan, the place at 2 p.m. at the Community Media Network instrument used by most competitors. Television Studio in Troy. Topics will focus on success Recognizing that his piano accordion was not in business, relationships, parenting, education, health, competitive, Soave returned to America and nutrition, developing your talents for your dream career, began a period of intense study to master the and more topics of interest to viewers. The show is more complex bayan. scheduled to air in March. For free studio-audience Returning to Europe, Soave swept first tickets and information call (586) 996-8660. place in the four major international SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 competitions in England, Germany, Italy, and Detroit Ignition East Germany, an unheard of feat for a virtuoso Michigan’s only professional soccer team, the Detroit of any instrument. Inspired by the music of Ignition, and the IACS present the First Annual Italian Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla, Soave American Night. A bus will leave at 2:30 p.m. for the included the characteristic tango accordion, the Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth to see a game at bandoneón, in his performances. 4:35 p.m. For information call Santo Cracchiolo at (586) He now tours extensively in both Europe 294-7260 ext. 217. and the United States. For the only North Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan American appearance in 1999 of the “Three The FADM will host its first Cucinando in Abruzzese Tenors” (Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras), ACCORDIONIST PETER SOAVE class. The presentation will be at Piccirilli Restaurant Soave performed as the featured at 52830 Van Dyke in Shelby Twp. Join Chef Umberto bandoneónist. He again performed with Uhlik and Five Paleontological impressario and publisher, Aldo and members of the Federation in sharing their recipes Pavarotti in September 2003. Mysteries by Venezuelan Pagani,” says Soave, “I was and demonstrating the preparation. A serving will follow. composer Aldemaro Romero. immediately drawn to Romero’s Tickets are $20 per person. For information call Enzo In 2001, Soave received the Detroit Paglia at (248) 656-5052. Music Award for Best Classical Recording Soave says that the Croatian rhythmically charged, generously Italian American Club of Livonia (performing Carmine Coppola’s Concerto for composer, Tomislav Uhlik melodious and refeshingly In support of St. Louis Center, a caring residential facility Accordion and Orchestra with the Emerald “dedicated Four Seasons to me optimistic sound. Five for people with developmental disabilities, the 13th Annual Sinfonietta) and in 2003 he received the and the Rucner String Quartet of Paleontological Mysteries for Dinner Dance will be sponsored by and held at the Italian Detroit Music Award for Best Classical Zagreb in 2005. Seasons is an accordion and string quartet was American Banquet & Conference Center of Livonia. The Instrumentalist. expertly crafted work for dedicated to me and named in event will be a culinary extravaganza with appetizers Marygrove College’s first concert of their bandoneon and string quartet. honor of the composer’s son Dr. and desserts provided by area restaurants, delis and first season was on Dec. 6, 1998, and Throughout the four movement Aldemaro Romero, Jr.’s (Biologist specialty shops. A formal dinner will follow. Three gifted featured the music of Astor Piazzolla with suite, Uhlik makes subtle at Arkansas University) discovery artists from the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan will bandoneonist Peter Soave as the soloist. To references to Croatian folk motifs of five new fossils. Five Paleos sing arias with piano accompaniment. The event begins celebrate their 10th anniversary they invited but presents it in a thoroughly was completed in July 2005 and at noon with a Mass, followed by a social gathering, Soave back, this time all the way from modern language.” will receive its world pemiere at dinner at 2:30 p.m., performances a raffle drawing and where he currently resides. The late composer Romero this concert.” live music and dancing going until 6 p.m. Cost is $50 Soave will play both the accordion and was ’s most renowned A reception will follow the per person. For information, call Gianna at (866) 990- bandoneon and has chosen two new pieces musical figure. “I had the great concert. CDs of Peter Soave will IABC or Joe Yekulis at (734) 475-8430. written for him and both American premieres: honor of connecting with Romero be available. For more visit (Continued on page 18) Four Seasons by Croatian composer Tomislav through Astor Piazzolla’s scarabclub.org/chambermusic. LIFE IS SHORT. EAT BETTER PIZZA. 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