Modern Opera

9 responses to “Modern Opera”

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   -fCh-

   Nov 8, 2011 at 4:14 am

   …so, when will other performing artists give up their paper(s)? Is there an app that automatically turns the pages of a musical score on an iPad-type of device? Think of that French movie, The Page Turner.

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   Astrocatou

   Nov 8, 2011 at 10:15 am

   Great work …and what a voice..lovely.

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   scleroplex

   Nov 8, 2011 at 10:29 am

   guess one no longer needs to actually memorise one’s lines

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   solerena

   Nov 8, 2011 at 3:34 pm

   Sweet:)

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5. 

   jurvetson

   Nov 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm

   Oh, I should explain! The iPad was a temporary prop to build suspense… Who is she texting?… What is she looking at?… Her true love? And then she unveils….

   …Fabio?!?
   

   Some more scenes… with rose and violin
   

   From the minstrel’s gallery overhead (singing Gershwin’s Summertime)
   

   The grand hall was the perfect venue…. encrusted with atavistic apparitions from Italy’s ceilings…
   
   And the delightful host committee who also wanted a photo.

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   solerena

   Nov 8, 2011 at 5:23 pm

   The portrait with the rose is fantastic, brings her inner beauty… it seems so easy taking portrait like yours when you look at your pictures.. but actually when i try to take my own during social events… they do not work at all… for some reason i was only able to take inspirational kids portraits and some of my friends (the last took dozen weak shots to get one decent one)… you have skill and ability to capture people in the most inspirational moments with amazing grace (Mozart like gift)… great gift and/or skill… since these pictures will become history and will reflect the face of our epoch. Yes, true love but true love is a reflection of one’s ideal self in another person.. but without these ideals, values and reflections of inner beauty humanity would be only a part of biosphere, animal kingdom and nothing more.

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   jurvetson

   Nov 8, 2011 at 5:37 pm

   thanks… I knew light would be the problem and flash impossible, so I brought fast prime lenses, opened the aperture to f/1.4 and boosted the ISO to 1600 to be able to take hand-held action shots. I got lots of practice trying to take photos of people on stage at TED. The first few years were not so good. =)

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   energy88

   Nov 11, 2011 at 5:56 am

   superb salute

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9. 

   jurvetson

   Feb 12, 2012 at 4:57 am

   and Gentry liked the photos too (Feb 12, 2012 issue, p.46):

   

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