Luis Soares's Blog, page 293
March 8, 2017
Scapricciatiello
Anna Magnani sings "Scapricciatiello" in George Cukor's "Wild is the Wind" (1957)
March 7, 2017
Say Something Loving
The xx - Say Something Loving (Official Video)
Watch the official music video for “Say Something Loving,” from the album ‘I See You.”
Eileen Myles - Large Large White Flowers
I’m using this
it’s large
it could leave it could
change
inside of changing
is hanging
everyone crossing the street
was talking to some
one; “alone”
to be with people
sending off
their rays
I’m sticking with you
even less
nuanced. Less smell
maybe
a blue pigeon
unlocks the
door to
the slabs
of wood
on Delancey
white planks &
then really beautiful
planks of artificial
wood leaning
against a tree
why is this pithy
to me. I’m re
lieved to be living
one day
without camera
or pen or
watch
I fe...
Lost in Light
Moon Duo - Lost in Light (Official Music Video) // From 'Occult Architecture Vol. 2' out May 5, 2017 on Sacred Bones Records.
Moonlight with a live orchestra
Watch the live orchestra performance of the 8-time Oscar-nominated film, including Best Original Score. The sold–out screening at the historic Million Dollar Theatre in downtown Los Angeles featured accompaniment by the Wordless Music Orchestra, and was led by conductor Ryan McAdams and the score’s composer, Nicholas Britell.
March 6, 2017
Alex Katz - Double (1999)
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.
Charlie Siem: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Watch the stylish young violinist pull out a bag of tricks in music by Paganini. Performing at the NPR Music offices, Siem tosses off left-hand pizzicatos, double-stop harmonics and spiccato bowing as if he were buttering bread.
Set List:
Ole Bull: Cantabile
Paganini: Introduction and Variations on Paisiello's "Nel Cor Piu"
Godowsky: Alt Wien (arr. Heifetz)
For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concert podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts
Gregory Halpern - ZZYZX
The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row—but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together—the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexi...
No Surprises
"No Surprises" - From "Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele"
-SONG-
Performed by Amanda Palmer / Written by Radiohead (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway)
-VIDEO-
Director: Ron Eyal
Animation: Marcos Sánchez
Produced by: Robert Profusek, Ryan Heller, and Ryan Silbert
Cinematography: Eleanor Burke
Production Assistant: Nikita Liamzine
A Toy Closet Films Production (toyclosetfilms.com) in association with Scissor Studios (s...
March 5, 2017
Caroline Shaw: in manus tuas
As performed by cellist Hannah Collins.
Filmed at Q2 Music's 'Meet The Composer' launch party and hosted by Q2 Music's Nadia Sirota, the party also includes a star-studded array of dynamic, award-winning performers: flutist and International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director Claire Chase performs Balter's Pessoa; Hotel Elefant performs Adams's Red Arc/Blue Veil; Attacca String Quartet performs excerpts from Norman's Peculiar Strokes; Cellist Hannah Collins performs Shaw's in manus tuas...
