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It's been quite a while since I last took my lensbaby for a trip to London - this is what it brought back
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Belval Meets OPL - EDSUN
Organized as part of ESCH25022, the "Open Air Belval meets OPL with Gast Waltzing" concert gave the opportunity to about 14 local groups and musicians to perform under the Belval Blast Furnaces, accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL), under the direction of Gast Walzing.
- Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL): www.philharmonie.lu/fr/opl/bio/
- Gast Waltzing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gast_Waltzing
- CHAiLD (Adriano Lopes Da Silva): www.iamchaild.com/
- Culture the Kid (Matteo Griz Wolff): konektisentertainment.com/artist/culturethekid
- Der Däiwel (Jeff Seyler, Luc Weber, Achim Ziwes, Gilles Loes): dd666.org/
- Dream Catcher (John Rech, Christof Brill, Wolfgang Wehner, Eric Falchero, Claude Zeimes, Steve Krippler): dreamcatcher.lu/
- EDSUN (Edson Domingos Pires): konektisentertainment.com/artist/edsun
- ENGLBRT (Georges Goerens, Niels Engel): www.englbrt.com/
- Francis of Delirium (Jana Bahrich, Chris Hewett): www.francisofdelirium.com/
- Fred Barreto Group (Fred Barreto, Daniel Fastro, Michael Stein, Nadja Prange): www.fredbarretogroup.com/
- MAZ (Thomas Faber): konektisentertainment.com/artist/maz
- Park Café (Maggie Parke, Rom Heck, Gast Waltzing): fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Caf%C3%A9
- Serge Tonnar (Serge Tonnar): tonnar.lu/
- Surf Cowboys (Baba Pintsch, Louis Wright, Steve Schmit, Troy Bankhead, Klaus Gehlhaar, Dan Dechmann, Danilo Linosa, Marion Thill, Mario Di Stefano): www.surfcowboys.com/
- Them Lights (Sacha Hanlet): www.themlights.com/
- TUYS (Sam Tritz, Tun Biever, Tom Zuang, Kay Gianni, Yann Gengler, Laurent Thiry): tuys.lu/
Belval: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belval,_Luxembourg
Fonds Belval: www.fonds-belval.lu/
Rockhal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockhal
Rockhal: rockhal.lu/
Oh baby! Lensbaby :)
I received my Lensbaby Composer lens this morning. This was the first shot I took with it and it blew me away! If you have a Canon EOS camera, the lens works in Av priority mode, to determine the shutter speed. There is no AF (and no EXIF on aperture value etc.) and you have to focus manually, but its a breeze. Focus, twist, shoot. Simplez!
balloons after their haircuts. more playing with my new toy.
it was such a busy day all i could photograph were the errands :)
I ordered a lensbaby and I'm not sure if I should keep it or send it back. What's your opinion or experience with lensbabies?
The Sea Organ (Morske Orgulje) is the world’s first musical pipe organ that is played by the sea. It is a natural musical instrument with seventy meters long pipes located underneath these stone steps so that the sea water and wind movements produce musical sounds that can be heard by passers by. It represents communication with nature and promotes unity of architecture and environment. As sea forces and energies are unpredictable in terms of tides and winds, this organ offers never-ending concert of numerous musical variations in which the performer is nature itself.
Created by expert Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005
German pianist and composer. Born September 13, 1819 in Leipzig, died May 20, 1896 in Frankfurt am Main.
Drawn as a little boy on a sleepless night before a performance in Leipzig (GDR) in the seventies.
Composer of an organ Chorale Prelude (alla Bach) on "Deep were His Wounds" (based on the hymn tune "Marlee"). Listen to David Lamb's fine performance using the Armley Schulze Hauptwerk sample set:
www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/51488
David has provided a free link to the score should other organists wish to add it to their performing repertory.
Lensbaby Composer, Double Glass Optic, F/2.8, macrolens +10.
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
October 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 and 26, 2025
🎠Cherubini’s Medea – Synopsis
Composer: Luigi Cherubini
Libretto: François-Benoît Hoffman, based on Euripides’ Medea, Pierre Corneille’s Médée, and other classical sources.
Premiere: 1797, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris (Médée in French); commonly performed in the 20th century in Italian translation (especially the Lachner version)
Setting:
Ancient Corinth, in the aftermath of Medea and Jason’s adventures in Colchis and the quest for the Golden Fleece.
Act I – The Wedding Day
The opera opens on the day of Jason’s wedding—not to Medea, his former wife, but to Glauce (also called Creusa), daughter of King Creon of Corinth. Jason has abandoned Medea and their two children in pursuit of social status and security.
Glauce is nervous—haunted by Medea’s reputation as a powerful and vengeful sorceress from a foreign land. Creon is firm: Medea must leave Corinth at once to prevent disruption to the royal wedding. Jason, torn but resolute, justifies his betrayal as necessary for the children’s future.
Medea arrives uninvited, distraught and humiliated. She pleads with Jason, only to be met with coldness. When Creon orders her exile, she manipulates him into granting her a one-day reprieve. The act ends with Medea vowing revenge.
Act II – The Veil of Vengeance
Medea wrestles with despair and rage, invoking the gods and her own powers. She hatches a deadly plan: she will send her children to Glauce bearing gifts—a robe and a diadem laced with poison.
Jason, still deluded by self-justification, allows the children to deliver the gifts, thinking it will bring peace between the two women. Medea hides her fury behind a mask of reconciliation.
Act III – Fire and Blood
Word soon comes that Glauce is dead—her body consumed by fire when she dons the cursed robe. Creon, trying to save her, dies as well.
Medea's triumph turns to horror as she prepares for her final act. She resolves to kill her own children to fully punish Jason—denying him both legacy and love. As Corinth burns and the people cry out in terror, Medea murders the boys and appears before Jason one last time, bloodied but defiant.
She vanishes into the night, leaving Jason to face the ruins of his ambition.
Themes and Musical Style
Cherubini’s Medea is a powerful blend of classical tragedy and early Romantic opera. Though written in the 1790s, it anticipates the dramatic intensity of later composers like Beethoven and Berlioz. The title role is one of the most demanding in the repertoire—vocally fierce, emotionally volcanic, and psychologically layered. Medea is no mere villain; she is a wronged woman driven to the outer edge of human experience, her grandeur and monstrosity bound together.
The opera explores:
Betrayal and abandonment.
The foreign woman as both outsider and threat.
The limits of power, reason, and vengeance.
The devastating consequences of pride and revenge.
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🎠Opera in Revolutionary Paris: From Collapse to Reinvention
🔥 The Crisis (1789–1794)
At the outset of the French Revolution in 1789, opera was seen by many revolutionaries as a corrupt and elitist art form associated with the ancien régime. The Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opéra), long funded by the monarchy, symbolized aristocratic excess and state patronage. The fall of the monarchy in 1792 and the execution of Louis XVI in 1793 sent shockwaves through all institutions—including the arts.
During the Reign of Terror (1793–1794):
Many aristocratic patrons were executed or fled.
Censorship was intense and ideological.
Performances were suspended or redirected to serve revolutionary propaganda.
Operas of the ancien régime were banned or rewritten to reflect republican ideals.
Some theaters were shut down; others became stages for revolutionary pageantry and pièces à sauvetage (melodramas featuring heroic rescues and virtue).
Yet even amid the chaos, theater and opera never fully ceased. The revolutionary government understood their power for mass persuasion, and theaters were repurposed as tools for civic education.
Rebuilding and Redirection (1795–1797)
After Robespierre’s fall in 1794, the political climate began to thaw. The Directory (1795–1799) brought a more pragmatic and less ideologically rigid approach. Cultural life, especially in Paris, began to rebound, driven by:
A new bourgeois audience, eager for diversion and moral elevation.
A reorientation of content: works with themes of virtue, justice, and self-sacrifice were encouraged.
Relaxation of censorship allowed composers and librettists more freedom.
Theaters were reopened or rebranded; the Paris Opéra resumed activity under different auspices.
Foreign composers and émigré artists (like Cherubini, an Italian working in Paris) were welcomed, especially if they embraced revolutionary values—or at least avoided monarchist associations.
🎼 Cherubini’s Médée in Context
Luigi Cherubini had remained in Paris through the Revolution, adapting astutely to the shifting tides. He aligned himself with revolutionary ideals without becoming doctrinaire. His music struck a new, leaner tone—stripped of rococo ornament, full of dramatic clarity, moral gravity, and classical rigor—all qualities that appealed to post-revolutionary audiences.
Médée (1797) fit the moment perfectly:
Based on a classical subject, it resonated with revolutionary neoclassicism.
Medea, as a powerful outsider, embodied anxieties about vengeance, justice, and moral collapse.
The opera combined psychological realism with tragic grandeur, aligning with the Directory’s taste for high-minded drama over frivolous entertainment.
The setting and costumes could invoke antiquity without recalling Versailles.
Bigger Picture: Why Opera Survived
Opera endured because it could adapt:
Thematically, by shifting from gods and kings to heroes and martyrs.
Aesthetically, by adopting simpler, starker forms in tune with revolutionary neoclassicism.
Institutionally, by transforming royal theaters into national ones.
Politically, by serving as both mirror and mouthpiece of civic ideology.
And crucially: the public still wanted it. Even in the darkest days, Parisians flocked to theaters. In a society newly preoccupied with the people’s voice and emotions, opera—paradoxically—became more essential than ever.
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one of a series i'm working on of favorite composers, this is franz liszt. have been unable to find a high res photo of the painting of beethoven i would like to use and was quite glad to come across one for liszt.
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beautiful stamp Germany 300 pf. Portrait Fanny Hensel, Fanny Hensel (Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, 14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847). German pianist and composer. Sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Fanny Hensel stamp Germany Briefmarke Deutschland francobollo 300 Pf Allemagne timbre sellos alemanha allemania franco bollo porto postage Germany
Lensbaby Composer Pro Sweet 50 optic with both the macro converters in the Composer Pro with the aperture set to f4.
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Lens - Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass Optic
i popped off a few shots with my XTi and the LensBaby composer at my shoot with musician Jesse Tucker. thought this one was kinda cool.
I ordered a lensbaby and I'm not sure if I should keep it or send it back. What's your opinion or experience with lensbabies?
A Bronze of John Dankworth at The Stables Theatre Wavedon Milton Keynes. A theatre that he and Dame Cleo Laine created in January 1970 in their back garden in the old stables in the garden,
Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores.
Born 20 September 1927
Woodford, Essex, England
Died 6 February 2010 (aged 82)
Marylebone, London, England
Instrument(s)Clarinet, alto saxophone
Years active1949–2009
Dankworth died on 6 February 2010, aged 82,[19] on the afternoon before a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of The Stables.
British jazz musician John Dankworth dies aged 82
His funeral took place on 1 March 2010 at Milton Keynes Crematorium, followed by a memorial service held at the Stables the same day.
Tone Mapped with NIK Collection Color EFEX pro 4 in Photoshop, corrected with Lightroom.
Composer of today's rarely heard and played addition to Billy organ practice playlist: Fantasy in G. Listen to a performance by David Lamb using the Hauptwerk version of the Hereford Cathedral Father Willis organ: www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/35556