Album Cover
Album: Meghan Trainor - Title (EP)
Released: September 9, 2104
Cover Art Designed: JP Robinson
Photographer: Sarah McColgan
Art Direction: JP Robinson
Friday, September 9, 2022
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Charlotte Sohy
Music Appreciation
While driving into work one morning, I came across an NPR story of French cellist Héloïse Luzzati's project that started during the COVID-19 pandemic of uncovering compositions by female composers. This eventually led to a label, La Boîte à Pépites (The Jewel Box), dedicated in showcasing female composers' works that has been historically ignored--4% of composers of classical music are women.
For this story, NPR focuses on the label's first release of French composer Charlotte Sohy set for September 30th in the UK. Luzzati explains that Sohy's composition is "impressionistic, sometimes figurative, with colors of Ravel, Chausson, and Debussy."
Luzzati decided to launch the label with works of Sohy after meeting Sohy's grandson, François-Henri Labey, who had copies of his grandmother's handwritten work.
When asked why female composers have been ignored, Luzzati explains with an example of female Virtuoso pianist Louise Farrenc who's work was forgotten after her death, "It's as simple as that. When a composer dies and she's no longer there to keep her work alive, it disappears almost instantly."
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Sunday, September 4, 2022
Lorenzo Pasinelli
Art Appreciation
Born on September 4, 1629 in Bologna, Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini. Despite the training of Bolognese classicism, Pasinelli's works embraced more of Late Renaissance style where over exaggerated harmonious qualities results in asymmetrical elegance.
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Love disarmed by the nymphs of Diana (1685-1695)
Penitent Mary Magdalen
The Risen Christ visit his Mother (1657)
Source:
Wikipedia
http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/en/LorenzoPasinelli.html
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/diana-al-bagno-con-le-ninfe-pasinelli-lorenzo/5gEf1x01zuCOaA
http://catholictruth.net/CTNet_RC/en/archive.asp?d=20180403
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Phil Stern
Photography Appreciation
A self described "humble paparazzo," Phil Stern captured Hollywood celebrities in their most natural state.
Born on September 3, 1919, Stern was an American photographer who got his start with a camera as a war photographer in World War II. He earned a Purple Heart for his courage capturing US troops in combat. After his service, he settled in Los Angeles and started as a staff photographer for LOOK magazine.
Stern is recognized for capturing some of the most iconic portraits of Hollywood starts which included Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Marilyn Monroe (1953)
James Dean (1955)
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1952)
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/phil-stern-james-dean-on-motorcycle-sitting-on-front-los-angeles
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/19/phil-stern
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/dec/16/phil-stern-hollywood-photographer-in-pictures
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Whole Oats
Music Appreciation
In September 1972, Daryl Hall and John Oates released their debut studio album, Whole Oates.
Prior to becoming a pop rock duo, Hall And Oates met at a band competition in Philadelphia in 1967. Discovering they had similar music interest, they began to collaborate. A few years later, they signed with Atlantic Records.
On May 28, 2015, British band Kitty, Daisy and Lewis performed with Daryl Hall I'm Sorry, the first song in the Whole Oates album, in an episode of Live from Daryl's House.
Complete Vinyl Record
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