Luis Soares's Blog, page 224
October 25, 2017
Girl with the Red Hat
Girl with the Red Hat is one of Johannes Vermeer’s smallest works, and it is painted on panel rather than on his customary canvas. The girl has turned in her chair and interacts with the viewer through her direct gaze. Girl with the Red Hat is portrayed with unusual spontaneity and informality. The artist’s exquisite use of color is this painting’s most striking characteristic, for both its compositional and its psychological effects. Vermeer concentrated the two major colors in two distinct...
October 24, 2017
Blue Maqams
Anouar Brahem: oud
Dave Holland: double bass
Jack DeJohnette: drums, percussion
Django Bates: piano
Recorded in New York’s Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album. Brahem meets Jack DeJohnette for the first time here, but Holland and DeJohne...
Extremely Well Written
From "The Sparsholt Affair" by Alan Hollinghurst (this particular paragraph is set in 1974, when there were blackouts as part of the three-day week):
"All these weeks, the old stove in the workshop was kept drowsily going, with its small scratchy whispers, now and then, of combustion and collapse, and when the power went off it was Johnny’s job to open the air vent, rattle out the cinders, hook up the cast-iron disc of the lid and slide in another helping of coke from the hod. Cyril lit the...
Pool & Steps
Pool and Steps, Le Nid Du Duc, David Hockney, 1971
Top of the Pops
Best opera arias and choruses (The Royal Opera House). Classic clips from the Covent Garden stage.
October 23, 2017
Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)
Hamilton Leithauser - Heartstruck (Wild Hunger) ft. Angel Olsen
Agency: Preacher
Chief Creative Officer: Rob Baird
Copywriter: Maxx Delaney
Art Director: Nick Troop
Post Producer: Katie Stoller
Chief Executive Officer: Krystle Loyland
Chief Strategy Officer: Seth Gaffney
Talent: Hamilton Leithauser
Production Company: SIMONITES
Director: SIMONITES
Production Supervisor: Annie Gunn
DP: Peter Simonite & Nick Simonite
Edit House: CARTEL
Executive Producer: Lauren Bleiweiss
Producer: Greer Bratschie
Edit...
Phantom Thread
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soo...
Richard Wilbur - The Beautiful Changes
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.
Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
T...
The Keynote
'The Keynote' by William Chase (1878–1944) - Oil on Canvas - 1915
October 20, 2017
Embraceable You
December 27, 2013 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola - New York
Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet); Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson (sax), Victor Goines (sax), Eric Reed (piano), Reginald Veal (bass), Herlin Riley (drums).
