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At long last. Put this feature together back in October, exciting to finally see it all in print!
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Marble Brewery, Downtown Albuquerque
Billie Holiday (Lady Day)
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her emotional vocal delivery and her voice, though little more than an octave, could grip you. Her recording of Strange Fruit is considered a civil rights anthem.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
Though she was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, Holiday's bad health, coupled with a string of abusive relationships and ongoing drug and alcohol abuse, caused her voice to wither. Her final recordings were met with mixed reaction, owing to her damaged voice, but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959.
She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986, and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film. In 2017 Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
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Plot no. 75
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Posh imp to you and I . Had one of these long long ago as a mother-in-law cast off and hand me down. Not in this class though, dull green and damp inside - this one's a hoot.
She studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (with Alexander had supposed - we interviewed him) and sings in many European countries. And on the street it is difficult to find because of the opera singers (and even on the conductors) always think they are a huge growth - those who are on the scene, always a cut above those in the audience. In fact, in art, everything is a little different than we think.
Liubov BELOTSERKOVSKAYA:
THREE "THANK YOU"
THREE "LOVE"
JUNIOR CLASSES AND ITALY
As the concert began a stormy life?
Long ago, with lessons on the piano. We went with my parents at the two international competition, and even occupied. They had the euphoria - hurray, our child will be a musician. Then it all started. Why tumultuous life? Interventions require daily activities; stormy life - it is rough work. I was five years old started practicing the piano, and won the first contest, it seems, at nine. Four years of painstaking training, and you're the first prize winner, so anything is possible.
They say that musicians do not have child ...
Of course, nothing is achieved without difficulty, but in the nine years I have visited in Italy. In the class asked me: "Well, how is it? .."
Jealous, I guess.
Respected.
PLAYER AND GERGIEV
The first "LOVE"
And listen to what music?
The player I have a classic. Sometimes I like listening to soundtracks to old Hollywood movies, Japanese movies and cartoons - when they are recorded with a symphony orchestra. We have a branch in St. Petersburg, directing - they love to put this music dance and other activities, and they want me and supply it. In general, modern classical authors in Russia are not enough. But we have an interesting cable channel "Mezzo", which sometimes show, for example, the modern opera productions. At the Mariinsky Theatre in "White Nights" has been modernized production of Wagner, a special interest to obtain "Tristan und Isolde." This concert was staged without costumes. Behind a screen, which aired video. It was very organic, with foreign soloists. And he knows how to be an organic Gergiev - no vulgarity, no inconsistencies: the music of Wagner, is a modern video director, they may be together.
AFTERNOON IN VENICE
SECOND "LOVE"
Tell us about the last competition.
The contest was held from 2 to 6 July in Padua ...
I really wanted to swim in the sea. We just drove by bus from Venice to Padua on a large bridge across the sea. It was a dream to go out and swim, but no one was swimming - nobody knows where they are the beaches.
Local does not disclose a secret?
No. They are tan, lying in the park, as we have in St. Petersburg, and swimming near Venice itself is prohibited, there is a company and the water is probably not very clean. And somewhere else on the beaches they are, I think, go on the weekends. And on weekends the city is empty, do not ask anyone. On Sunday, Italy dies, everything is closed, the scene of the western: noon, the streets are empty.
And how is it?
If you look at the city as a whole, and not inside the buildings - murals, paintings - you need to go back to the carnival or winter. Very hot, stagnant water in the canals. The town is small, very beautiful and very unique. He did not like Padua, bears no resemblance to Venice Mestre, which is on land.
In September I went to three concerts in Holland - this is my favorite country. I was in Harlem, in Amsterdam. The same North Sea, in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg but if I'm sick and there, in Holland, I'm getting better.
There is a special student. People go to the festival films in small towns. They can go to another city just to listen to it a new opera production. Which one of us would go for this, for example, in St. Petersburg?
VERY HIGH CEILINGS
Those who organize the tours and help along the way and relax?
Trying to help. And sometimes it turns out to combine - some of the concerts are very beautiful. For example, we sang in Venice in the Palazzo Dzakko - a small feudal mansion, but he is built like a Venetian palace, with a through passage to the garden with fountains - you can have fun and seeing a building.
Or ancient European cathedrals - great place. And sing, and watch.
Speakers like?
Yes, there is fertile acoustics, especially for slow pieces. The church works often slow. Musicians are joking, "wrote potatoes" whole empty notes. Perhaps it sounds worse than a quick product: the sound goes, there is too much reverberation. And so - excellent acoustics, no need to give away, you can easily sing piano. The older church - the better acoustics.
In the old European cathedrals had to sing?
In the Netherlands - in Harlem, and in Germany, in a historic cathedral - it was just a charity concert to raise funds for its restoration of the frescoes. Speakers there was phenomenal.
HVOROSTOVSKY AND MICROPHONE
A popular in Europe, outdoor concerts, where artists are at ease - it's more complex form of speech?
This can be explained by the fact that people come to Europe to enjoy a classical concert, they need to show. Now all aimed at making the show, so there are artists like Hvorostovsky - and they can see and hear - artists like Netrebko.
On the other hand, a form of a concert close to the theater: you can run around the stage, gesticulating. A character embodied in the theater - it is easier than being in a concert.
Why do we have such a form of concerts are not held?
Maybe artists are afraid of themselves? We have no such equipment, as in the West. Maybe you noticed - at these concerts, singing into a microphone. But the microphone is not like our pop stars, and made especially for them, perceiving other frequencies. We have the technology there is little, only in Moscow, where, incidentally, had already arranged the speeches. For example, on the Sparrow Hills - May 9, Hvorostovsky sang it. There is, of course, were of good quality microphones. But I think that as long as the necessary equipment becomes more widespread, the practice shows such a plan even if enthusiasts will spread very slowly.
PARIS - TOKYO
THIRD "LOVE"
Plans for the far-distant future?
In Japan, the same has always been my dream to go, so heard-read about it - Ovichinnikova and other Orientalists. In short, I want to go there.
Invite?
There are clues, but let's see what time will tell.
And what promise to be the embodiment of dreams?
The biggest dream is to be realized in December - a concert in Paris.
In Paris the first time? And - what?
Of course, at Notre Dame. Walking on the Cité. Maybe even go to the cemetery. We will implement the plan, which is in the movie "Paris, je t'aime."
Maybe I'll see Paris and die.
PODVERSTKA: three "thank you"
After the interview Liubov Belotserkovskaya asked to convey my gratitude to my teacher, Tamara Novichenko. It Honored Artist of Russia and the professor. And yet - the parents and accompanists.
Text - Potap PLYUSCHSCH
Photos from the personal archives of Love BELOTSERKOVSKY
I was totally mesmerized by this store in Notting Hill. There were literally hundreds of old singer (and a few other makes) sewing machines lined all over the walls!
This was about the best shot I could get - as I could feel the fiery breath down my neck of the guy behind me trying to get in for his shot! lol!
Texture courtesy of: skeletalmess
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13/52 for the group 52 of 2012
This week's theme: Technical, mechanical, or machinery
I was rather lacking in inspiration earlier in the week, partly because I was thinking large scale. The obvious solution only came to me later and here is the old Singer Sewing machine (hand operated) that used to belong to my mother-in-law.
I looked up on the Internet about it recently and it dates from the 1930s and was made in Clydebank in Scotland.
Cabinet card, 1880s - 1890
Photographer: Singer Sámuel
Zombor
FÅ‘ utca
Hungary (now Serbia, Сомбор)
This lass was at a music event in Northwich today, weirdly 8 of the people who were there ( that I asked )..... no-one knew her name , but she was GOOD !
( Sherlock Evans is at work !!! )
and 243 views :)))
2018 Sept ... still no idea who she is ...... Help !!!!
Hadise is a singer with Turkish roots.
She is even more popular in Turkey than she is in Belgium.
Her music is a mix of Western pop with Turkey's influences and it swings like a tit.
This photo has been shot with the Samsung NX300, which has been provided by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
You'll find all my NX300 shots in my NX300 set here