Saturday, March 28
Monday, March 23
Francois Couperin : Forlane
Flûte/Recorder:
Julien Martin
Basse de viole/Gamba:
Josh Cheatham
Clavecin/Harpsichord:
Skip Sempé
Julien Martin
Basse de viole/Gamba:
Josh Cheatham
Clavecin/Harpsichord:
Skip Sempé
Vivaldi's Fate 1926 & 1930
“The fate of the Italian composer's legacy is unique. After the Napoleonic wars, it was thought that a large part of Vivaldi's work had been irrevocably lost. However, in the autumn of 1926, after a detectivelike search by researchers, 14 folios of Vivaldi's previously unknown religious and secular works were found in the library of a monastery in Piedmont. Some even- and odd-numbered volumes were missing, and so the search continued. Finally, in October 1930, the missing volumes were found to be with the descendants of the Grand Duke Durazzo, who had acquired the property as early as the eighteenth century.
To its amazement, the world of music was presented with 300 concerts for various instruments and 18 operas, not counting a number of arias and more than 100 vocal-instrumental pieces. Such an impressive list of newly unearthed opuses warranted a re-evaluation of Vivaldi's creativity."
Saturday, March 21
Friday, March 20
"The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin:
"When be build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not
be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor
and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our father did for us.' "
Thursday, March 19
Peter Gabriel=His First Album
Here Comes the Flood (1977)
When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot even choose a side.
I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again, the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot even choose a side.
I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again, the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
"Scintillation" by Xavier Chassaing
This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.
Saturday, March 14
302 Park Terrace
Our Original View of Independence Park's Rose Garden.
The house stands at the red Cross on the map of 1935.
Wednesday, March 11
1964 Worlds Fair
45 Years Ago in New York--I was there...and the optimistic predictions of a paradise have remained unfulfilled at the location in Flushing as well as in America as a whole.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Named in her honor
* Vandalia and Charlotina (proposed but unrealized North American colonies)
* Charlotte, North Carolina
* Charlotte County, Virginia
* Mecklenburg County, Virginia
* Charlotte Hall, Maryland
* Queensbury, New York
* Charlotte Place, Sydney, New South Wales
* Charlottesville, Virginia
* Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
* Fort Charlotte, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (named for Queen Charlotte's birth family)
* Port Charlotte, Florida
* Queen Charlotte (British merchant ship, after which the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia were named)
* HMS Queen Charlotte
* Queen's College, New Brunswick, New Jersey (now Rutgers University)
* Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina
* Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand
* Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, The oldest maternity hospital in the United Kingdom
* Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
* Strelitzia reginae, a flowering plant indigenous to South Africa
* Mecklenburg Square, Bloomsbury, London
Tuesday, March 10
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