Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Horses are large animals, but they are delicate, too. Keeping them healthy and in good condition requires a series of essential measures of different kinds. Eleonora takes us through some of them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Eleanora explains how tambourines are made and plays a few notes from the Pizzica and Tarantella dances. The Pizzica was used in the past for exorcising the possessed.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Elisa covers Luciano Ligabue's 2014 song "A modo tuo" (In Your Own Way). Ligabue's song describes his concerns about his own daughter's growing up. Elisa's "A modo tuo" has been a huge hit.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Ferro starts off his "eco-tour" sponsored by the Italian electric company, Enel. He suggests small ways in which each of us can save on energy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Ferro talks about his relationship with pen and paper. Familiarize yourself with sonno and sogno, both of which have to do with the night.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
An agreement has been signed between Enel (Italia's leading electric company) and Piaggio (a leading motorized vehicle manufacturer) for the development of electric mass transportation and for studying innovative solutions for the safeguarding of the environment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ennio Morricone talks about what it means to be a composer and Nicola Piovani talks about the music he composed for Ennio Morricone's birthday celebrations in his later years.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Normally, someone else writes your obituary when you die, but Ennio Morricone wrote his own! His attorney was authorized to read it aloud in public, and here it is.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ennio Morricone was best known for his unforgettable movie soundtracks. In fact his music was featured in over sixty prize-winning films.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Enrica Arcuri sang “How Beautiful Life Is” at the 12th annual Videofestival. It's one of the most important of the Canori Festivals and serves to introduce new voices, singers, bands, and up-and-coming singer-songwriters. Video provided by PA 74 Music.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A young university student tells us about her interests as a kid, how her ideas changed as she grew up, and what her dream is.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Erica takes us back to the time when prehistoric man first discovered that fire was not just something to fear, as was the case with animals, but something he could make use of, and later, something he could produce.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Discovering fire had a huge influence on the daily life of prehistoric man. Erica describes perhaps the earliest technique they used for making fire, and goes on to tell us about a famous mummy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Erica shows us the various parts of so-called "tinder fungus" and then demonstrates how to prepare it for lighting a fire using a sharp flintstone.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We finally get to producing the fire itself, using tools found in nature. It's not easy at all, but when you finally succeed, it can be pretty exciting and satisfying.
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