Luis Soares's Blog, page 79
February 18, 2020
Calm Down
First single by artistic and musical duo, Benjamin and Florence Clementine. // Video : Produced, Edited and Directed by Preserve Artists.
February 17, 2020
Gelido in ogni vena
Max Emanuel Cenčić: Vivaldi - "Gelido in ogni vena" from Farnace.
From the Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg
George Petrou - conductor
with Vivica Genaux & Concerto Köln
Reinbert de Leeuw performs Gnossiennes 1-6
Maestro Reinbert de Leeuw performs Gnossiennes 1-6 composed by Erik Satie. Reinbert de Leeuw has a fascination for the French excentric composer Erik Satie. In the '60s and 70's Reinbert de Leeuw's recordings of Satie's music were immensely popular. Thirty years later Reinbert de Leeuw is still fascinated by Satie's music and performs all six Gnossiennes with new tempi.
Dutch conductor, pianist, and composer Reinbert de Leeuw died February 14 at the age of 81.
February 15, 2020
Hair Love
Hair Love, an Oscar-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.
Directors:
Matthew A. Cherry (Executive Producer, “BlacKkKlansman”)
Everett Downing Jr. (Animator, "Up")
Bruce W. Smith (Creator, “The Proud Family,” Animator, “The Princess and the Frog”)
Producers:
Karen Rupert Toliver
Stacey Newton
Monica A. Young
Matthew A. Cherry
David Steward II
Carl Reed
Executive Producers:
Peter...
February 14, 2020
T.G.I.F.
Live from Musikbrauerei, Berlin – Pianist Daniil Trifonov performs Scriabin Etude, Op. 42, No.3 at the Yellow Lounge in November 2019.
Live from Musikbrauerei, Berlin – Pianist Daniil Trifonov performs Scriabin Etude, Op. 42, No.5 at the Yellow Lounge in November 2019.
Live from Musikbrauerei, Berlin – Pianist Daniil Trifonov performs Scriabin’s Etude Op. 8 No. 12 at Yellow Lounge in November 2019.
Airea D. Matthews - Temptation of the Composer
Oh Shepherd, our honeyed marriage
bed in the meadow was too narrow
and though you herd wild things,
you were deaf to my footsteps.
As you lay there in the dew of me, curled,
satiated, I tiptoed backwards
toward our door under twisted reeds.
Out where pasture led to brackish
waters and red-hot mists rose from quartz
I lowered myself into rockpores
while rushing wings of screech owls
seemed to sing:Welcome, Dark-Light
Welcome, Wild-Love
Home
...
Nothing at Stake
Nothing at Stake from Criterion Collection on Vimeo.
In this video essay, Kogonada, the director of COLUMBUS (2017), examines how Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA imbues memories of everyday life in early-1970s Mexico City with the grand sweep of history.
February 13, 2020
Air Live
Air - Full concert live at the Niedemeyer Space for ARTE Concert (Binaural Show) / La Blogothèque (Paris, 2016).
Boys and Water / Men and Water
I keep coming back to water scenes. I keep coming back to rivers and lakes. I keep coming back to oceans. I like to explore the interaction of people, particularly of young boys and men, with water. Water can disarm even the most armed of facades. Becoming one with water is not about rushing but rather about flowing. And flowing is the closest thing to being.
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