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Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan is in Iowa to perform Aram Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto with the Des Moines Symphony. She says portions of this piano part is physically uncomfortable to play because Khachaturian was more of a cellist and didn’t use the tricks like other composers use to make it easier. 9/26/2014 Photo by John Pemble
Photos for a magazine article of a day course in classical riding and training with Ton Duivenvoorden at the Moravita training stables in Coevoerden, the Netherlands.
Built in 1921-1931, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Cass Gilbert to serve as the West Virginia State Capitol, replacing a previous capitol building that was located in Downtown Charleston, and was destroyed by fire in 1921. The capitol building is 292 feet (89 meters) tall, making it the tallest building in West Virginia and the ninth-tallest legislative building in North America. The building features a limestone exterior with a rusticated stone base, doric pilasters, relief panels with festoons, a cornice with dentils, a stone balustrade atop the roof, front and rear porticoes with corinthian columns and pediments, urns atop the corners of the roof of the central pavilion of the front wing, a drum atop the center of the front wing with a corinthian colonnade and windows with roman lattice motif metal screens below a stone balustrade, above which are arched bays and a partially gilded dome with a gilded lantern and finial, doric porticoes at the ends of the building’s front wing, twelve-over-twelve and eight-over-eight double-hung windows, two four-story rear office wings, connected to the front wing via one-story wings at each end of the front wing, which feature similar exterior details to the main wing and recessed three-story doric porticoes at the central bays of the front facades above arched entrance bays, and plazas to the front and rear of the front wing. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The building today remains the seat of the West Virginia government.
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Classical Guitarist Brad Richter and Cellist Viktor Uzur appear at the Poncan Theatre in Ponca City, Oklahoma on March 26, 2011.
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City & Guilds of London Art School
The Art School’s Architectural Heritage
City & Guilds of London Art School occupies nos. 114-124 Kennington Park Road, a terrace of late 18th century houses, and 19th and 20th century studios built over the gardens behind. The terrace is Grade II listed and stands in the Kennington Conservation Area. The Art School has been on this site since 1879.
The houses at nos. 114-124 Kennington Park Road were built in 1788, as part of the first wave of urbanisation in this area. They were designed as one half of a gateway development to a planned grand square by the builder Michael Searles. The projected plans were never fully realised, and the development of the square was carried out on a much-reduced scale, becoming what is now Cleaver Square. Although originally designed as a middle-class street, the growth of London in the Victorian era and the flight of prosperous families to suburbs such as Clapham and Brixton led to a decline in the area. While the 19th-century occupants of the Georgian houses are unknown, it seems quite possible that they were lower middle or working class.
In 1879, the South London Technical Art College (City & Guilds of London Art School since 1937) moved into nos. 122-124. Its predecessor, the Lambeth School of Art, had been founded nearby specifically to be close to the Doulton potteries, in order to provide art education to local workers (and mainly women). The first studio sheds, located behind nos. 122-124, were built shortly after 1879. These structures, shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1894, had timber truss roofs. Later on, between 1918 and 1939, the Art School expanded into nos. 118-120, and new studios with steel frame trusses were constructed in the gardens behind. No. 116 Kennington Park Road was purchased by the Art School in 1974, while the final property of the six, no. 114, was acquired in the late 1980s, allowing the stone yard area to be developed.
21st-Century Developments
Since 2010, the Art School has embarked on an ambitious programme of renovations and enhancements on its Kennington site. The Masterplan for the project, established under the direction of Alan Higgs Architects, is based on a three-phase delivery:
Phase 1 (2010-2014)
Completed over five consecutive summers, Phase 1 consisted of the renovation and upgrade of the six terrace buildings, including refurbishing some 35 studios, creating the expanded Sackler Library, and improving circulation throughout. In 2012, the Foundation Department relocated to the adjacent 1930s Old Vauxhall Telephone Exchange building.
Phase 2 (2015-2016)
This phase involves the creation of a new entrance for the Art School by inserting a glazed steel canopy structure forming an atrium in the space between the Georgian terrace and the studio buildings. Following ground level works in 2015, summer of 2016 saw continued developments with the installation of the new roof structure.
Phase 3
The final phase will focus on a partial re-development and refurbishment of the studio buildings at the rear of the site, which increase the work spaces for creative practice while protecting the special character and the legacy embodied in its buildings.
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Angela enjoying a "Gardeners Tea" (with cheese scones) in the Audit Room at Petworth, amidst the impressive sculptures.
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