Luis Soares's Blog, page 36

Wires and Try

Bryce Dessner
"Wires" (2016), pour ensemble
Bryce Dessner, guitare électrique
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, direction

Blogothèque Productions
En association avec Arte Concert - Arte France
En partenariat avec lEnsemble intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris
Enregistré en direct le 24.09.2016 à la Cité de la musique, un bâtiment conçu par Christian de Portzamparc
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Andrew Norman
"Try" (2011) - 14'48
Ensemble...

Male Nude Lower Torso

Andy Warhol, Male Nude Lower Torso (195657)

From The Art Newspaper:

Andy Warhol always wanted to publish his highly homoerotic 1950s drawings portraying mainly nude young men kissing, posing or engaging in sexual acts such as fellatio. The Pop art pioneer showed a selection of these taboo-busting worksprimarily rendered in ink on paperat New Yorks Bodley Gallery in 1956 (Studies For [sic] a Boy Book) but never realised his ambition to publish the drawings in a monograph.

According to a...

Harold Budd and Laraaji perform in a Cave in 1989

Harold Budd - The White Arcades

Lazarote Music Festival, Jameos Del Agua. Organized by Brian Eno.

Heart Of Downtown

"Heart Of Downtown feat. Bombino" from Calexico's very first holiday album "Seasonal Shift" - Out Now

Written by Joey Burns (Lunada Bay/BMI administered by BMG) and Sergio Mendoza (McNab Music/BMI) / French Translation by Alissa Demorest

Video by: Jonny Sanders (parts of the downtown footage filmed by Colin H. Clarke in Boise)

Joey Burns - vocal, steel-string guitar, electric guitars, Casio keys, hand claps
Bombino - electric guitar, vocals
John Convertino - drums, shaker
Sergio Mendoza -...

Ming Smith

Ming Smith is an American photographer. She was the first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Howard University in 1973, she moved to New York City, where she found work modeling. While in New York she met photographer Anthony Barboza, who was an early influence.

Smith's approach to photography has included in-camera...

Litany of the Forsaken

Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave Litany of the Forsaken (Official Music Video)

Perhaps best-known for his distinctive vocal style, Australian polymath Nick Cave here steps into the spotlight as librettist rather than performer, for a second operatic project with Belgian composer Nicholas Lens. Having collaborated on Shell Shock in 2014, they joined forces again during the global lockdown to create a new work, L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.. At Lenss request, Cave penned 12 litanies petitions to a divine maker...

Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33

Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33

Allegro non troppo - Allegro molto - Tempo I
Allegretto con moto - Tempo I - Un peu moins vite
Più allegro comme le premier mouvement - Molto allegro

Frankfurt Radio Symphony - Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Bruno Philippe, violoncello
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt, September 17, 2020

Geysir

Geysir - for 12 winds and double bass

Performed by:

Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton, clarinet
Nicholas Daniel, Emma Feilding, oboe
Amy Harman, Dom Tyler, bassoon
Oliver Pashley, Ausiàs Garrigós Morant, basset horns
Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest, horns
David Stark, double bass

Montauk Highway

Montauk Highway - Willem de Kooning (Netherlands, active United States, 1904-1997) / Holland, 1958

Willem de Kooning, who immigrated to New York City from Rotterdam in 1926, perpetually blurred the boundaries between abstract and representational modes. From 1957 to 1961, de Kooning spent more time in Long Island, away from Manhattan. During this period, he painted a number of suburban parkway landscapes. De Kooning relished the transformation of the terrain from urban to open highway—expanses ...

If We Make It Through December

Phoebe Bridgers covers "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard