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Published plans have included a "cascade" of second or third hand 319s from First Capital Connect to the Thames Valley Lines after electrification. These will be thirty years old by then, older than the current turbos, 2+3 seating again, no air-conditioning... I could go on.
Anyway two FCC units, one in Southern colours rebranded for FCC, pass Honor Oak Park in South London ("old stamping grounds" for me) on a Brighton train. Nice to have a wave from the driver.
13 June 2014
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È prevista solo una data in Italia per il nuovo tour di LP, all'anagrafe Laura Pergolizzi, il 15 maggio 2019 al Fabrique di Milano.
La cantautrice ha da poco pubblicato "Heart to Mouth”, uscito il 7 dicembre scorso.
“Heart to Mouth” è il quinto album in studio di LP anticipato dal singolo “Girls Go Wild” e dall’apripista “Recovery”. L’artista è stata in Italia per due tappe del suo instore tour negli scorsi giorni avvenuto a Roma e Milano. Parlando del nuovo album ha dichiarato: “Quando mi metto a comporre, c’è una sola linea, dritta: dal mio cuore alla mia bocca. In passato, c’era una città piena di strade che aveva bisogno della mia attenzione. Ora, mi sento come se avessi una grande autostrada per comunicare emozioni. Che si tratti di canzoni melanconiche o di grandi inni, vengono tutte dallo stesso posto”. Nei testi di “Heart to Mouth” sono affrontati diversi temi: dall’amore alle insicurezze, dal rimpianto all’infedeltà, passando per la redenzione, il sogno, l’abbandono, la lussuria e l’insicurezza. La cantante ha lavorato all’album insieme al “solito” Mike Del Rio, suo storico collaboratore, che già aveva curato la produzione di “Lost on You”.
Nonostante il nome italiano derivante da una madre napoletana e un padre per metà siciliano e per metà irlandese, LP non parla la nostra lingua. Nata nel 1978 ad Huntington, Long Island, New York, e cresciuta a Los Angeles, la cantautrice ha iniziato la sua carriera pubblicando due album, "Heart-Shaped Scar" del 2001 e "Suburban Sprawl & Alcool" del 2004, con due etichette indipendenti che tuttavia non sono riuscite distribuirli a dovere.
Per fortuna, questi primi insuccessi non l'hanno fermata e per diversi anni, LP ha lavorato nell'ombra come compositrice di hit per altre popstar, che includono Rihanna, per cui ha scritto "Cheers (Drink to That)", Christina Aguilera ("Beautiful People"), Cher ("Red", "Pride") e Leona Lewis ("Fingerprints"). Nel frattempo, ha continuato a studiare ed ha iniziato a suonare frequentemente l'ukulele, tanto che, come riporta Enrico Esposito in un articolo su Il Termopolio, la Martin Guitars ha costruito appositamente per lei un ukulele modificato in chitarra, con 6 corde invece di 4.
Dal 2014 ha ripreso ufficialmente ad interpretare le sue canzon aprendo i concerti di Bryan Ferry in America e pubblicando per la Warner Bros prima l'EP "Live at EastWest Studios" e poi l'album "Forever for Now", del 2014, seguito lo scorso 9 dicembre 2016 da "Lost on You", che l'ha portata all'attenzione del pubblico italiano.
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Lo sposalizio è stato il corpo e il pane della comunità. Il mattone fondante della comunità. Veniva consumato con il cibo e con la musica. Una specie di eucarestia in cui la nuova coppia veniva ingerita dalla comunità che gli si stringeva intorno avvolgendola di stelle filanti nell’ultimo, infinito ballo dei “ziti” (che così si chiamano tanto gli sposi quanto la pasta). La musica aumentava vorticosamente di ritmo fino ad assorbire la coppia che finiva per girare avvolta come uno spiedo in una girandola colorata di fili di carta. A quel punto era digerita e pronta per generare e rinnovare la comunità. Questa musica che accompagnava il rito era musica umile, da ballo, adatta ad alleggerire le cannazze di maccheroni e a “sponzare” le camicie bianche, che finivano madide e inzuppate, come i cristiani che le indossavano. Un repertorio di mazurke, polke, valzer, passo doppio, tango, tarantella, quadriglia e fox trot, che era in fondo comune nell’Italia degli anni ‘50, ‘60, e che si è codificato come una specie di classico del genere in un periodo nel quale lo “sposalizio” è stato la principale occasione di musica, incontro e ballo. Poi le tastiere elettroniche hanno preso il sopravvento e gli sposalizi sono diventati matrimoni. L’aria condizionata è entrata in un altro genere di ristorazioni in cui la musica è diventata una specie di dessert più parente del liscio che dell’epoca mitica dei mantici, dei violini e delle farfisa.
A Calitri, in alta Irpinia, negli anni in cui è esistita una comunità, che è poi finita frantumata nelle migrazioni che sono state il sangue vivo dello sviluppo, questa comunità si è rinnovata e celebrata in un luogo cardine del paese: la “casa dell’Eca”. Nei racconti della mia infanzia si è trasformata in “casa dell’Eco”. La casa dove nasceva l’eco. Eco della musica, degli schiamazzi, delle burle, delle feste, luogo del pantheon dei personaggi mitici che fanno una comunità in cui si viene ribattezzati e realmente ri-conosciuti, nel soprannome che la comunità stessa impone, in luogo della chiesa. Da qualche decennio la casa dell’Eco tace, e l’unico eco che si spande è quello dei racconti. Se ci si appendessero dentro le fotografie di tutte le coppie sarebbe un sacrario di guerra. Giovani con la divisa nuziale che andavano ad affrontare, sparacchiando, la vita, dopo la sparecchiatura dei tavoli della casa dell’Eca.
Qualche anno fa, un gruppo di anziani suonatori di quell’epoca aurea non priva di miseria, ha preso l’abitudine di ritrovarsi davanti alla posta nel pomeriggio assolato. Avevano l’aria di vecchi pistoleri in paglietta. A domandargli cosa facessero appostati davanti a quell’ufficio postale, rispondevano che montavano la guardia alla posta, per controllare l’arrivo della pensione. Quando l’assegno arrivava, sollevati tiravano fuori gli strumenti dalle custodie e si facevano una suonata. Il loro repertorio fa alzare i piedi e la polvere e fa mettere a ammollo le camicie sui pantaloni. Ci ricorda cose semplici e durature. Lo eseguono impassibili e solenni, dall’alto del migliaio di sposalizi in cui hanno sgranato i colpi. Hanno nomi da gloria nella polvere: Tottacreta, Matalena, il Cinese, Parrucca. Il più impassibile di loro non aveva nemmeno bisogno di un soprannome, tanto era lapidario il nome originale: Rocco Briuolo. Ora Rocco è andato a suonare “due Paradisi” tra i santi che ha dipinto come fossero suoi compari. Tra santo Canio e santo Liborio. Ora può, come nella vecchia canzone, dire a san Pietro guardando giù, che “il Paradiso nostro è questo qua”. E con ragione, perché la sua umanità, il suo violino e il suo pennello, hanno portato un poco di divino in noi, che l’abbiamo conosciuto. La sua “Banda della Posta” lo accompagna con la filosofia nella quale è vissuto: un lavoro ben fatto, che non si prende mai sul serio. A lui è dedicato questo disco fatto di racconti in musica, cic’ tu cic’ e bottaculo. A quadriglie, a cinquiglie, fino all’incontrè.
Banda della Posta:
Giuseppe Caputo , "Matalena" - violino
Franco Maffucci , "Parrucca"- chitarra e voce
Giuseppe Galgano, "Tottacreta"- fisarmonica
Giovanni Briuolo- chitarra , mandolino
Vincenzo Briuolo- mandolino , fisarmonica
Giovanni Buldo , "Bubù"- basso
Antonio Daniele- batteria
Crescenzo Martiniello, "Papp'lon" - organo
Gaetano Tavarone , "Nino"- chitarre
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 6th of September 1915.
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The picture of today's shooting in agriculture. Later i will publish it in my livejournal.
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London. The image is a glossy real photograph, and the card was printed in Great Britain.
The card was posted in Glasgow using a 2d. stamp on Friday the 3rd. June 1949. The postmark informs the reader of:
'Scottish Industries
Exhibition Glasgow.
1st. to 17th. Sept. 1949.'
The card was sent to:
N. Naif-Rogg,
Bachlettenstraße 78,
Basle,
Switzerland.
The Kyles of Bute
The Kyles of Bute is a narrow, scenic sea channel in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, that separates the northern end of the Isle of Bute from the Cowal Peninsula on the Scottish mainland.
Renowned for its dramatic, tree-lined hillsides and tranquil waters, this stunning strait is designated as a National Scenic Area.
The channel is roughly 20 miles long, and less than a mile wide at its narrowest points. It is naturally split into two distinct stretches:
-- The East Kyle: Runs from Rothesay Bay northwest up toward Loch Riddon. It features a cluster of small, uninhabited islands, including the Burnt Islands and Eilean Dubh (Black Island).
-- The West Kyle: Sweeps southwest from the mouth of Loch Riddon, passing picturesque coastal villages before opening into the Sound of Bute.
-- Key Attractions
-- Kyles of Bute Viewpoint: Located on the mainland side along the high road between Tighnabruaich and Colintraive. Maintained by the National Trust for Scotland, this famous roadside layby offers panoramic vistas looking down over the Burnt Islands and Loch Riddon.
-- Boating and Sailing: The waters are highly sheltered, making them a haven for yachts and kayakers. You can book local excursions like Bute Boat Tours to see the resident seal colonies and spot porpoises or sea eagles.
-- Charming Villages: The mainland villages of Tighnabruaich, Kames, and Colintraive frame the channel, offering traditional pubs, shoreline walks, and overnight moorings.
-- The Colintraive Ferry: One of Scotland's shortest ferry crossings, connecting Rhubodach on Bute to Colintraive on the mainland in just a few minutes.
-- Hiking: The shoreline forms part of the Loch Lomond and Cowal Way, offering excellent hiking paths through silver birch woodlands and rocky ledges.
For a view of the now-demolished Caladh Castle, please search for the tag 44GCH45
An Admission of Telling Porkies
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 3rd. June 1949, while testifying at the trial of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers admitted under cross-examination that he had lied to the FBI and to the House Un-American Activities Committee in previous statements about Communist spy activities in the United States.
Contempt of Court in NY
Also on that day, in New York, three of the eleven defendants in the Smith Act trial (John Gates, Henry Winston and Gus Hall) were sent to jail by Judge Harold Medina for contempt of court.
Confusion Over the Name of a Country
Also on the 3rd. June 1949, the official gazette of King Abdullah cleared up confusion about his country's name by announcing that it had been changed from Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The name change had been decided upon in December 1948, but international press coverage had continued to refer to the country as Transjordan, because it was not known when the change had become official.
Mickey Rooney
Also on that day, Mickey Rooney married actress Martha Vickers just hours after picking up his final divorce papers from his second wife Betty Jane Rase.
Dragnet
Also on the 3rd. June 1949, the police procedural drama series Dragnet premiered on NBC Radio. The program was later made into a popular TV series running from 1951 to 1959.
-- Procedural Drama
A procedural drama is a genre of television and literature that focuses on the step-by-step, technical processes of professionals (such as detectives, lawyers, or doctors) solving a case.
It primarily uses an episodic structure where a problem is introduced and generally fully resolved within a single episode.
Shelley Winters
Also on that day, the mystery film Take One False Step starring William Powell and Shelley Winters premiered in Los Angeles.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 8th of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
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A postcard published by the Hart Publishing Co. Ltd. of London E.C.
It was posted on Monday the 12th. August 1912 to:
Mrs. N.F. Fawles,
2, Alstone Villas,
Gloucester Road,
Cheltenham
There is a message on the back of the card, but it is not legible.
Scarborough
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire. The town lies between 10–230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, rising steeply northward and westward from the harbour on to limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour, and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of just over 61,000, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. People who live in the town are known as Scarborians.
The Development of Scarborough as a Resort
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr. Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town.
Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not noted on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London.
The coming of the Scarborough-York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims to have the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880's until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
The Grand Hotel
When the Grand Hotel (shown in the photograph) was completed in 1867, it was one of the largest hotels in the world, and one of the first giant purpose-built hotels in Europe.
Four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors represent the months, 52 chimneys represent the weeks, and originally 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's Church by the castle.
Maritime Events Associated With Scarborough
During the Great War, the town was bombarded by German warships. Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack.
In 1929 the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560-pound (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna), and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction.
Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lawrie Mitchell-Henry landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg).
A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933, and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name.
Sir Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record, which still stands, is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Lawrie Mitchell-Henry.
On the 5th. June 1993 Scarborough made headlines around the world when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea.
Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
The Keystone Cops
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 12th. August 1912, Keystone Studios was formed by filmmaker Mack Sennett, producing comedies, most notably those of the Keystone Cops.
SIng Sing Executions
Also on that day, a record seven convicts were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing, the New York penitentiary at Ossining, New York, in a little more than an hour.
The first man was executed at 5:09 am, and the last at 6:14 am.
Five were Italian-Americans who had burgled a house at Griffin's Corners, New York in November, during which a sixth man, Santo Zanzara, had stabbed an occupant to death. Zanzara had been executed earlier, and the other five were put to death as accessories.
Sing Sing Correctional Facility
Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York.
It is about 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. It holds about 1,700 inmates and housed the execution chamber for the State of New York until the abolition of capital punishment in New York in 1977.
The name "Sing Sing" was derived from the Sintsink Native American tribe from whom the land was purchased in 1685, and was formerly the name of the village. In 1970, the prison's name was changed to the Ossining Correctional Facility, but it reverted to its original name in 1985. There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a museum.
Sing Sing - The Early Years
Sing Sing was the fifth prison constructed by New York state authorities. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison.
Lynds spent months researching possible locations for the prison, considering Staten Island, the Bronx, and Silver Mine Farm, an area in the town of Mount Pleasant on the banks of the Hudson River.
By May 1824, Lynds had decided to build a prison on Mount Pleasant, near (and thus named after) a small village in Westchester County named Sing Sing, whose name came from the Wappinger (Native American) words sinck sinck which translates to 'stone upon stone'.
In March 1825, the legislature appropriated $20,100 to purchase the 130-acre (0.53 km2) site, and the project received the official stamp of approval. Lynds selected 100 inmates from the Auburn prison for transfer and had them transported by barge via the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to freighters.
On their arrival on the 14th. May 1825, the site was without a place to receive them or a wall to enclose them. Temporary barracks, a cook house, carpenter and blacksmith's shops were rushed to completion.
When Sing Sing was opened in 1826, it was considered a model prison because it turned a profit for the state. By October 1828, Sing Sing was completed. Lynds employed the Auburn system, which imposed absolute silence on the prisoners; the system was enforced by whipping and other punishments.
John Luckey, the prison chaplain around 1843, reported Lynds' actions in running the prison to New York Governor William H. Seward and the president of the Board of Inspectors, John Edmonds, in order to have Lynds removed. Luckey also created a religious library for the prison, with the purpose of teaching correct moral principles.
In 1844, the New York Prison Association was inaugurated in order to monitor state prison administration. The Association was made up of reformers interested in the rehabilitation of prisoners through humane treatment.
Eliza Farnham obtained a position in charge of the women's ward at Sing Sing largely on the recommendation of these reformers. She overturned the strictly silent practice in prison, and introduced social engagement to shift concern more toward the future instead of dwelling on the criminal past.
She included novels by Charles Dickens in Luckey's religious library, novels of which the chaplain did not approve. This was the first documented expansion of the prison library to include moral teachings from secular literature.
Sing Sing in the 20th. Century
Warden T. M. Osborne
Thomas Mott Osborne's tenure as warden of Sing Sing was brief but dramatic. Osborne arrived in 1914 with a reputation as a radical prison reformer. His report of a week-long incognito stay inside New York's Auburn Prison indicted traditional prison administration in merciless detail.
During his time in Sing Sing he wrote his book 'Society and Prisons: Some Suggestions for a New Penology', which influenced the discussion of prison reform and contributed to a change in societal perceptions of incarcerated individuals.
Prisoners who had bribed officers and intimidated other inmates lost their privileges under Osborne's regime. One of them conspired with powerful political allies to destroy Osborne's reputation, even succeeding in getting him indicted for a variety of crimes and maladministration. After Osborne triumphed in court, his return to Sing Sing was a cause for wild celebration by the inmates.
Warden Lewis Lawes
Another notable warden was Lewis Lawes. He was offered the position of warden in 1919, accepted in January 1920, and remained for 21 years as Sing Sing's warden.
While he was warden, Lawes brought about reforms, and turned what was described as an "old hellhole" into a modern prison with sports teams, educational programs, new methods of discipline, and more.
Several new buildings were constructed during the years that Lawes was warden. Lawes retired in 1941, and died six years later.
Sing Sing in WWII And After
In 1943, the old cellblock was closed and the metal bars and doors were donated to the war effort.
In 1989, the institution was accredited for the first time by the American Correctional Association, which established a set of national standards by which it judged every correctional facility.
As of 2019, Sing Sing houses approximately 1,500 inmates, employs about 900 people, and has hosted over 5,000 visitors per month.
The original 1825 cell block is no longer used, and in 2002 plans were announced to turn it into a museum.
In April 2011 there were talks of closing the prison in order to take advantage of its valuable real estate.
Executions at Sing Sing
In total, 614 men and women were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing until the abolition of the death penalty in 1972.
After a series of escapes from death row, a new Death House was built in 1920 and began executions in 1922.
High profile executions in Sing Sing's electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky", include Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on the 19th. June 1953, for espionage for the Soviet Union on nuclear weapon research; and Gerhard Puff on the 12th. August 1954, for the murder of an FBI agent.
The last person executed in New York state was Eddie Lee Mays, for murder, on the 15th. August 1963.
In 1972, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was unconstitutional if its application was inconsistent and arbitrary.
This led to a temporary de facto nationwide moratorium (executions resumed in other states in 1977, and the death penalty was reinstated and abolished in New York in various forms over subsequent years), but the electric chair at Sing Sing remained.
In the early 1970's, the electric chair was moved to Green Haven Correctional Facility in working condition, but was never used again.
The Sing Sing Football Team
In 1931, new prison reforms permitted Sing Sing State Penitentiary prisoners to partake in recreation opportunities. The baseball and football teams, and the vaudeville presentations and concerts, were funded through revenue from paid attendance.
Tim Mara, the owner of the New York Giants, sponsored the Sing Sing Black Sheep, Sing Sing's football team. Mara provided equipment and uniforms and players to tutor them in fundamentals. He helped coach them the first season.
All the Black Sheep games were "home" games, played at Lawes Stadium, named for Warden Lewis E. Lawes. In 1935, the starting quarterback and two other starters escaped the morning before a game.
Alabama Pitts was their starting quarterback and star for the first four seasons, but then finished his sentence. Upon release, Alabama Pitts played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1935.
In 1932, "graduate" Jumbo Morano was signed by the Giants and played for the Paterson Nighthawks of the Eastern Football League.
In 1934, State Commissioner of Correction, Walter N. Thayer banned the advertising of activities at the prison, including football games. On the 19th. November 1936, a new rule banned ticket sales. No revenues would be derived from show and sports event ticketing.
These funds had been paying for disbursements to prisoners' families, especially the kin of those executed, and for equipment and coaches' salaries. With this new edict, the season ended and prisoners were no longer allowed to play football outside Sing Sing.
Plans for a Museum at Sing Sing
Plans to turn a portion of Sing Sing into a museum date back to 2002, when local officials sought to turn the old powerhouse into the museum, linked by a tunnel to a retired cell block, for $5 million.
In 2007, the village of Ossining applied for $12.5 million in federal money for the project, at the time expected to cost $14 million. The proposed museum would display the Sing Sing story as it unfolded over time.
Sing Sing's Contribution to American English
The expression "up the river" to describe someone in prison or heading to prison derives from the practice of sentencing people convicted in New York City to serve their terms in Sing Sing, which is located up the Hudson River from the city. The slang expression dates from 1891.
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This excerpt from a book published in 1900 is a product of its times, lacking a balanced historical perspective.
From Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies by Robert Vaughn, 1900, pp. 305-328 [public domain] :
GEN. GEORGE A. CUSTER, U. S. A.
The Hero of Little Big Horn
It is plain that Custer laid his plans to win the fight, and at once. From the position in which the dead were found it is also clear that, having found themselves entirely outnumbered and beyond the reach of help, they took position as best they could in a sort of triangle on the rough, hot hill side, and there died in battle. Custer’s brother, Colonel Tom Custer, held one corner of the triangle, and down nearest the river his brother-in-law, Calhoun, another, while the general held the higher ground, so as to see and direct the battle to the end. The men fell almost in line. The officers, Calhoun and Crittenden, fell in their places, as if on parade.
Two years afterwards Robert E. Strahorne, a particular friend of mine, who was all through the campaign with General Crook, sent me the following statement in regard to this Indian war:
“I was, during the trying days of 1876–77, the representative of an Eastern journal and attached to the expeditions which Brigadier General George Crook led against the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, then commanded by Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Dull Knife and Little Wolf.
“In this campaign we were obliged to go without clothing or bedding, save such as we carried on our backs, and without food, except the scantiest allowance possible of bacon and coffee. In this one point, Crook is without a rival in the regular army; he subjects himself to just the same discomfort and hardships as his men have to endure and cuts loose from his wagon train for weeks and months at a time. His wagons are never allowed to become receptacles of luxuries and toothsome delicacies for himself and officers; they carry only grain, ammunition and the necessary articles of daily food.
“At the engagement on the Rosebud, Montana, June 17, 1876, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull ‘bounced’ Crook with a force of painted and feathered red devils numbering well up307 in the thousands. Poor Custer met his fate at the hands of these same warriors only a week later. Crook’s forces were not much, if any, superior to Custer’s whole command, but he was fortunate in keeping them undivided. He withstood the attack with great skill and courage, although for a while things certainly looked very blue. On this day, a little company of Montana miners, who had been out in the Black Hills prospecting and had joined Crook while on their way back to Montana, did splendid work with their Sharp’s sporting rifles. Crook and Terry, those grand soldiers, after poor Custer’s command had been wiped out, united their forces on the Yellowstone. How Terry then took for his share the task of cleaning out any hostiles to be found north of the Yellowstone, while Crook, like a bull-dog, hung to the trail which led to the south; how he followed it without bedding, without shelter, without food other than horse meat and berries found in captured villages, and in spite of the pitiless rain which beat down upon us (for I was one of those who camped on the trail), day after day, during the entire march from the mouth of Powder river to the Black Hills.
“I could write a book about our trials and tribulations on those marches, and sometime in the future the half-formed fancy of the present moment may take shape. One thing I wish to impress upon the minds of present and future Montanians, and that is the fact that the campaigns of General Crook and brother officers and men in 1876 and 1877 had the positive result of opening to their permanent occupation and use those vast and beautiful regions drained by the Yellowstone, Big Horn, Rosebud, Tongue, Powder, Musselshell and Judith rivers—regions which up that time had swarmed with the most powerful, vindictive and treacherous tribes of savages America has produced. I went into those campaigns knowing little of the regular army, and indeed somewhat308 prejudiced against it; I came out satisfied that the mass of its officers and men, the ‘youngsters’ especially, were brave, intelligent, patriotic, ambitious and courteous—men of whom any country should be proud.
“Closing this reminiscence of an arduous season of toil and danger, I am glad to say that among the lieutenants with whom I faced the red foe, and for whom I formed a great attachment, was the witty, bright and brave Schwatka, whose successes as an Arctic explorer have since made him world famous; Bourke, who besides being an officer of exceptional gallantry and good judgment, has devoted himself, with great patience, to the collection of memoranda upon the manners and customs of the aborigines; Carpenter, noted as an entomologist, and dozens of other officers—Eagan, Charles King, Schuyler, Allison, Chase, Lemley, McKinney (since killed), Delaney, Randall, Sibley, Nickerson, Henry, as brave and intelligent as any men can be—in the army or out of it.
“As Sherman’s army had an important element following and surrounding it—‘the bummers’—so this hard-worked force that Crook commanded had attached to it a force of correspondents whom I compare, and in all kindness, to the ‘bummers’ whom Sherman led to the sea. They were an exceptionally fine lot of men. There was Jack Finerty of the Chicago Times. I have always had a notion that he stepped out from some place in Lever’s novels; he was brave to rashness, and devoted to the interests of his great journal. Joe Wason, of the Alta California and the New York Tribune, always on the skirmish line after ‘pints.’ His red head shone like the danger signal of a freight train, but in spite of his red head he was one of the best fellows I ever knew. T. C. MacMillan of the Chicago Inter Ocean, and J. J. Roche of the New York Herald, both physically weak, but intellectually strong, and so on through the list. Readers of the Boston309 Advertiser, New York Herald and Tribune, Alta California, Philadelphia Press, Washington Star, Denver News, Omaha Republican and Herald, Cheyenne Sun, and other papers represented at various times during that campaign of seventeen months’ duration, never imagined while they were reading our letters at their comfortable breakfast table, and growling at the dashed correspondents because they ‘didn’t make ’em more full,’ that the ‘dashed correspondent,’ dressed in rags, soaked through with rain, and almost crazed with want of food and rest, was writing his letters on a cottonwood chip or a piece of flat stone, and often at the risk of his life from a stray bullet.”
There is now in this state one witness of the Custer battles, who is perhaps the only one living. He is William Jackson, an intelligent and well educated half-breed, who now lives at the Blackfeet reservation sixty-five miles from here.
After a long life as government scout, he has turned his attention to farming and cattle raising, and in this pursuit he has been quite successful. He was in this city a few days ago on his way from Helena, where he had been as a witness in a trial which was held in the United States court. A correspondent of the Anaconda Standard, at this place, had an important interview with Mr. Jackson, which is as follows. He says: “Mitch Bouille, William Cross and myself were acting as guides and scouts for the Custer-Terry expedition against the Sioux and Cheyennes who were under the leadership of the wily old Sitting Bull. The battle, as you know, took place on June 25, 1876. On the morning of that day the troopers had made an early start and we, the scouts, had gone ahead on a reconnoitering expedition. When we returned to report we met the command crossing the divide between the Rosebud and Little Big Horn rivers, General Custer rode at the head of his command, the Seventh Cavalry, and Captains311 French and Benteen and Major Reno were in command of other divisions.
“We had discovered the hostiles camped near the Little Big Horn and about seven miles straight ahead of the soldiers. We so reported to General Custer, and he, calling a halt, summoned the officers under him for a council. The troops were shut out from view on the part of the hostiles by a ridge of land, and it was at the base of this that the council of war was held. It lasted but a few minutes, and Custer’s desire for an immediate engagement carried the day. The soldiers were divided into three battalions. Major Reno with three companies and all of the scouts was to advance rapidly and from a commanding ridge make a charge upon the upper end of the Sioux camp, first gaining a patch of timber about six hundred yards from the enemy. In the meantime General Custer, with five companies, would deploy around the edge of the ridge where they were now halted and attack the lower end of the village and cut off all retreat on the part of the Sioux. Captain Benteen, with four companies, would take up a position on the east bank of the Little Big Horn, overlooking the village and protecting the pack train and baggage.
“As the officers left the council they quickly gave orders to the men, and in an instant all were busy inspecting and loading their pistols and carbines, filling their ammunition belts, tightening saddles and looking to every detail preparatory to the fight. Soon the bugle sounded, ‘Prepare to mount; mount, forward!’ Custer and his men went to the right, Reno to the left, toward the ford of the Little Big Horn. The horses went forward at a sharp trot, and in the moment of waiting on the bank of the stream I looked back and saw Custer with his five companies charging upon the village, Custer fully fifty yards in the lead. That was the last time I ever looked upon that heroic soldier alive or his gallant men. We312 were soon busy in making the ford, which was somewhat difficult, and then we advanced up the ridge, taking the position assigned us at the council. Up to that time there had been no incident of interest. The troops were dismounted and the horses left in the care of every fourth soldier. Everything was ready for the fight to begin and the wait was not long.
“The hostiles had discovered us at once and took the initiative by making a vicious charge up the hill. Their main body gained a vantage ground behind an elevation sufficient to protect them and just in front of our position. As they charged they drove in our skirmish line, which took a position just inside the timber. The fight was furious for a time, the Indians outnumbering Reno’s command at least ten to one. A second charge from the hostiles drove us still higher up the ridge, at least one mile further from the village, and it was in our retreat that we first heard the sounds of firing in the lower end of the village where Custer was engaged. It could not have been very heavy, as he met but few hostiles at the first of the engagement, but it was sufficient to draw the attention of the Indians away from us and turn it upon the unfortunates who were attacking them in the rear. This was between 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon and from that time the fighting in the lower end of the Indian camp was hot and heavy. The sound of firing increased steadily until it became a roar, and then it died gradually away until there was only the scattered reports of single shots. All this took place in the space of two hours, and when the June sun set behind the Little Big Horn mountains the Custer command had been entirely wiped out.
“Of course we did not know this at the time, but wondered how the fight had gone. Soon we suspected that something was wrong, for the Indians again turned their attention to313 Reno, and from that time there was no opportunity to think of anything save what we saw going on about us, and in which we were vitally interested, for the onslaughts of the painted warriors became desperate. Inflamed by their success in killing the Custer command, they now determined to sweep away the rest of their enemies, and time and again they charged up the hill to capture Reno. Only the strength of our position prevented our meeting a fate like that of Custer, and it was after dark before the hostiles gave up their attempt to dislodge and slaughter us. My personal interest in the fray was strong. I had been in the skirmish line, and when we were driven back by the hostiles we retreated slowly, protecting the withdrawal of the main body of Reno’s command. In doing this fourteen of us were cut off from the command and had to take to the brush and hide. Before we could conceal ourselves ten of the fourteen had been killed, leaving only Lieutenant Deridio, F. F. Gerard, Tom O’Neal and myself.
“Fortunately we were not discovered, and at midnight, after all danger of the enemy was past, we slipped from our covert and made ready to join our command. We stripped the blankets from the bodies of dead Indians, which were plentifully strewn through the timber, and wrapping these about us we filed Indian fashion up the bank of the stream. We did not know just where Reno was camped and our first desire was to get outside of the ‘dead circle,’ or picket line, of the Sioux. We advanced cautiously and making as little noise as possible, but in spite of that we suddenly ran into a body of fifteen Sioux pickets. To hesitate was to be suspected, and suspicion on their part just then meant death to us. We advanced steadily and without exhibiting surprise. We had partly passed the party when one of them demanded who we were. I could speak Sioux as well as my own tongue, and without delay replied ‘Us.’
314 “‘Where are you going?’ was the next question, and my answer to this was, ‘for our horses.’ This satisfied the interrogators, and we had escaped the first danger.
“We had succeeded in crossing the stream and following the trail along the bank, faint in the dim moonlight, when we came to an opening in the dense cottonwoods, and there we ran into a camp of several hundred Indians. Gerard immediately took them to be our men and belonging to Reno’s command. He shouted: ‘Don’t shoot, boys; we are friends.’ The startled Indians cried out: ‘Lay non; wa-see-cha ah-he-pe ah-lo!’ (It is the enemy; the evil bad snows are upon us!) At this I dropped my blanket and ran, getting into the brush and away from the trail. Some one followed me closely, and I made up my mind that if he ever caught me there would be a fight to death between us. I could actually feel the knive thrust between my ribs in my highly excited imagination, and when I reached the river bank I turned to face my pursuer. Then I found that it was none other than Gerard, who had chosen the same path as myself. We waited a minute or two and listened. Then we heard four shots, and we were sure that our companions were lost.
“We waited no longer but plunged into the stream and gained the opposite bank, following it as far as we dared. Dawn was breaking and through the day we lay hidden in the willows, watching the battle which followed between the Indians and Reno’s command. As the sun arose we could see the Indians circling about the camp and occupying every adjacent hill. A scattering fire was maintained until 9 o’clock, when the Indians made a savage assault upon the east side of Reno’s position. The soldiers appeared to be very cool and poured in a murderous fire, which forced the hostiles to fall back with heavy loss. An hour later they made a second desperate charge, and so fierce was this that they actually315 fought with the soldiers over the breastworks, hand to hand. But again the discipline of the soldiers was more than a match for the fanatical frenzy of the Sioux, and they were driven back the second time. The soldiers had lost but few in this conflict, while their savage foes were strewn all over the side of the hill. From that time until noon there was only firing at long range. Then came a third charge, easily repulsed. From that time until 4 o’clock in the afternoon each side rested on its arms. About that hour, sheltered by a hill and not more than one thousand yards distant from the soldiers, the Indians held a council of war. In a few minutes there were evidences of departure in the Indian village, and it was then that the strength of the foe appeared. They could be seen by the thousand, scurrying about through the camp, taking down the lodges, loading the ponies with packs and with travois, and when the baggage train was finally completed, hurrying off to the north under a strong escort of warriors, making for the Big Horn mountains. At sunset all of them had disappeared and we dared venture out from our hiding place.
“Approaching Reno’s position cautiously, for fear of being shot by the sentinels in the darkness, we were fortunate in getting inside the lines in time to meet Major Reno himself with members of his staff. To them I related what we had seen and heard, including the story of the loss of our companions, but before I had finished a challenge was heard, and into the camp came an orderly with Deridio and O’Neal. We were overjoyed, but there was little time for congratulations. Mounted on the best horse remaining in the command—for the long range fighting had killed many of those in the troop—I was sent with dispatches to Generals Custer and Terry.
“Three miles down the Little Big Horn I came upon the battlefield and it was a most grievious sight. Scattered or heaped up on the plain were the bodies of 237 men, every316 one save that of Custer mutilated in the most horrible manner known to the Indian mind. Not one had a vestage of clothing upon it; all had been stripped off and carried away by the exulting fiends. In Custer’s body there were the marks of two bullet wounds, and undoubtedly I was the first man to look upon the terrible sight. It was too much for me and I turned and rode swiftly away down the river, shortly afterward meeting General Terry and his soldiers. To him I gave my dispatches and was immediately sent back to Major Reno with instructions to bury the dead. This was completed about 1 o’clock in the afternoon of the 27th. The wounded in Reno’s command were taken to the mouth of the Big Horn river, and thence conveyed down the Yellowstone on the steamer Far West to Bismarck. The next day we gathered up large quantities of pemmican and other provisions and camp utensils left by the Sioux in their hurried flight, and burned them. Although I was but a youth when this occurred, it made an impression upon my mind that I shall never forget, and the details of those horrible two or three days are as fresh now as they were at the time of occurrence. Five years ago I went over ‘The Custer Battlefield,’ where the soldiers are buried, with Mrs. Eustis, whose son Jack, then a recent graduate from West Point, had been one of the victims under Custer. She had cherished a hope of recovering his bones, but although we had with us a number of Sioux and Cheyennes who had taken part in the fight, and each tried his best to recall all of the fearful scene, we were unable to help her, and she was obliged to return to her Eastern home with frustrated hopes. The incident, however, called up in mind all of the gruesome details of the battlefield as I saw it on that memorable morning, and I shall never care to repeat the experience.”
General Terry, in his official report dated Camp on Little Big Horn, June 27, 1876, noticed the military movement in317 the direction where Custer and his men had fallen, and submitted for the information of the war department the following important explanation:
“At the mouth of the Rosebud I informed General Custer that I should take the supply steamer Far West up the Yellowstone to ferry General Gibbon’s column over the river; that I should personally accompany that column, and that it would in all probability reach the mouth of the Little Big Horn, on the 26th inst. The steamer reached General Gibbon’s troops, near the mouth of the Big Horn, early on the 24th, and at 4 o’clock in the afternoon all his men and animals were across the Yellowstone. At 5 o’clock the column, consisting of five companies of the Seventh Infantry, four companies of the Seventh Cavalry, and a battery of three gatling guns, marched out to and across Tullock’s creek, starting soon after 5 o’clock on the morning of the 25th. The infantry made a march of twenty-two miles over the most difficult country I have ever seen. In order that scouts might be sent into the valley of the Little Big Horn, the cavalry with the battery was then pushed on thirteen or fourteen miles further, reaching camp at midnight. The scouts were sent out at 4:30 on the morning of the 26th. The scouts discovered three Indians, who were at first supposed to be Sioux, but when overtaken they proved to be Crows, who had been with General Custer. They brought the first intelligence of the battle. Their story was not credited. It was supposed that some fighting, perhaps severe fighting, had taken place, but it was not believed that disaster could have overtaken so large a force as twelve companies of cavalry. The infantry, which had broken camp very early, soon came up and the whole column entered and moved up the valley of the Little Big Horn. During the afternoon efforts were made to send scouts to what was supposed to be General Custer’s position, and to318 obtain information of the condition of affairs, but those who were sent out were driven back by parties of Indians, who, in increasing numbers, were seen hovering on General Gibbon’s front. At twenty minutes before 9 o’clock in the evening the infantry had marched between twenty-five and thirty miles; the men were very weary and daylight was falling; the column was, therefore, halted for the night at a point about eleven miles in a straight line above the mouth of the stream. Next morning the movement was resumed, and after a march of nine miles Major Reno’s intrenched position was reached. The withdrawal of the Indians from around Reno’s command, and from the valley, was undoubtedly caused by the appearance of General Gibbon’s troops. Major Reno and Captain Benteen, both of whom are officers of great experience, accustomed to see large masses of mounted men, estimated the number of Indians engaged at not less than twenty-five hundred. Other officers think that the number was greater than this. The village in the valley was about three miles in length and about a mile in width. Besides the lodges proper, a great number of temporary brushwood shelters were found in it, indicating that many men, besides its proper inhabitants, had gathered together there.”
William Sellow, who now lives in Teton county, Montana, also one of the scouts who served under General Custer, contributes the following to the Dupuyer Acantha, July 15, 1899:
“Quite often, especially of recent years, I have seen articles in papers and magazines relating to the actions and motives of General Custer that led up to the massacre of his historic band. Most of these do grievious wrong to the bravest and best officer the United States government ever sent out to fight Indians on the frontier. Books, too, go so far as to call him a suicide and murderer for going at the head of his men into the battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
319 “At that time I was in Custer’s employ as a civilian scout, and had known him for a long time. I knew his ways of attacking Indians, and knew his unbounded confidence in his men. I had known him to win Indian fights against greater odds than his last one. For instance, at Wichita, he routed them with a force that numbered ten to one. Had he, in his last fight been supported as he could and should have been, he would have won the day, and then the Sitting Bull war would have ended and not have lasted until it cost much money and many lives. Not until the buffalo were killed and other game became scarce were the Indians satisfied to accept government rations and spend their honeymoon at home. An Indian’s heart is never good until he is hungry and cold.
“Custer has been accused by would-be historians of going contrary to orders in his last campaign, and to refute these charges I write to follow him as far, or farther, than anyone else is truthfully capable of doing. That he did not go contrary to orders in his last movements the captain acting as General Terry’s adjutant at the time, if he is alive, will gladly, doubtless, testify. Unfortunately, I have forgotten his name. He will remember the greater part of the orders.
“After we, the scouts, delivered to Custer his last orders, I know he had no opportunity to receive any more, and as I recount the events as nearly as I can remember them at this length of time, it will be seen that I am correct.
“General Terry started myself and another scout to overtake and join Custer. After leaving the supply train and headquarters on about June 22, 1876, we reached the camp that night and delivered our message. The reader will see that in those stirring times when a scout was given a message it was in duplicate, one for the perusal of the scout and one for the receiver. These precautions were taken for fear one or both might be lost en route. In the first case the open one could be delivered, and in the second the scout might deliver320 the message from memory. I have yet in my possession the extra copy of this message, but unfortunately, it is so old and pocket-worn as to be only partially decipherable. From this, aided by memory, I give the message:
“‘To Lieutenant Colonel Custer, Seventh United States Cavalry:
“‘The brigadier general commanding desires that you proceed up the Rosebud in pursuit of the Indians, whose trail was discovered by Major Reno’s scouts a few days ago. Of course, it is impossible for me to give definite instructions with regard to this movement, and were it not impossible to do so, the department commander places too much confidence in your zeal, energy and ability to wish to impose upon you orders that would conflict with your own judgment and which might hamper your actions when nearly in contact with the enemy. I will, however, indicate to you his ideas of what your movements should be and he desires you to conform to them unless your own judgment should give you sufficient reasons for departing from them. He thinks you should proceed up the Rosebud until you ascertain definitely the direction in which the trail above spoken of leads. Should it be found that it turns toward the Little Big Horn he thinks you should still proceed southward as far as the headwaters of Tongue river and then toward the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn, keeping scouts out constantly to your left, so as to prevent the possibility of the escape of the Indians to the south or southeast by passing around your left flank. The column of Colonel Gibbons is now in motion for the mouth of the Big Horn. As soon as it reaches that point it will cross the Yellowstone and move up as far at least as the forks of the Big Horn and the Little Big Horn. Of course, its future will be controlled by circumstances as they exist. But it is hoped that the Indians, if upon the Little Big Horn, may be so nearly enclosed by the two columns that their escape will be impossible.
321 “‘The department commander desires that, on your way up the Rosebud, you should have your scouts thoroughly examine the upper part of Tullock’s fork, and that you should endeavor to send scouts through to Colonel Gibbon’s command with the result of your examination. The lower part of this will be examined by Colonel Gibbon’s scouts.
“‘The supply steamer will be pushed up the Big Horn as far as the forks of the Big and Little Big Horn, if the river is found navigable that far.
“‘The department commander, who will accompany the column of Colonel Gibbons, desires you to report to him there no later than the expiration of the time for which your troops are rationed, unless in the meantime you receive further orders.’
“After sleeping about two hours that same night we got fresh horses and Custer started us with instructions to go to the east of Tullock’s fork and to follow it down to its mouth at Tullock’s creek and to keep a sharp lookout for any signs of Indians, and to report to him again that night if possible. This we did, seeing nothing but the trail of a small war party going toward the Big Horn.
“We had been rolled up in our blankets but a few hours when Charlie Reynolds and a half-breed Sioux scout, Bill Cross, came in with a report which caused Custer to send for us again. After getting fresh horses we were given a dispatch to carry to Colonel Gibbon’s command. We reached the river, which we crossed by the aid of our horses’ tails with our clothes tied so as to keep them as dry as possible. We reached the command that day. The next morning I was sent back to the supply train, which was still at Powder river, and my companion was sent to join Benteen’s command. He was with the latter during his engagement with the Indians, and he gives Colonel322 Benteen great credit for bravery. The colonel, he says, when the men behind the breastworks ran short of ammunition, with his own hands carried it and threw it over to them, being all the time exposed to the deadly fire of the enemy.
“In twenty-four hours I reached the supply train and was afforded another opportunity to fill up and get some sleep. On the 26th we met a Sioux scout, Bloody Knife, coming in badly scared and he seemed to think that Custer had been killed, although he had not seen him. Another scout, George Mulligan, and myself had been sent out to find Custer.
“We had not gone far when we met Bill Cross and eight Ree Indian scouts. They had a few Sioux ponies which they said they had captured. They told us that Custer and his command were killed, but they did not seem to know much about it. They could not tell us just where the fight took place, hence we took little stock in their story. We learned afterward, however, that when Custer made the charge they gathered up the Sioux horses that had strayed out on the hills, and pulled out for a more healthy climate. Scout Reynolds had the same privilege, but chose to go into the battle, and was afterward found in the same deadly circle with General Custer with many empty shells around them as evidence of a desperate fight.
“Reynolds well knew of Custer’s ability to deal with the Indians against fearful odds, for he had previously fought with him. He also knew the odds he had to face that day, as we spoke of it when we last met and he proved by his actions that he could not have been aware of any wrong-doing on the part of the general when he, of his own free will, followed him that day.
“After leaving Cross and the Ree scouts we met Curley, the Crow Indian scout, who was with Custer at the beginning of the fight. That pock-marked villain and liar, Rain-in-the-Face,323 says Curley is a liar, that he was not there, but I know for a fact that Rain-in-the-Face had never met Curley, nor to the best of my knowledge has he ever seen him since. I have heard Rain talk and he will never get into the happy hunting grounds if veracity is to be his passport.
“When we met Curley he was so badly scared that I doubt if he would have known himself. He had a Sioux medicine or war pony in full paint and feathers, a Sioux blanket and part of a war bonnet that he wore in his escape, and which he got from a dead Sioux medicine man who was killed near him in the first attack. The blanket had some blood on it. His own horse was killed and he appropriated the medicine man’s property, and instead of trying to run the gauntlet he moved along with the enemy, trusting to his disguise to deceive them. When he saw an opportunity he dropped out of his bad company and escaped. When I last saw him with Custer he had his Crow clothes on and had his own pony, and he had no other chance to get the outfit. Had he been a white man he would not have had any chance of escape even with that rig. He does not claim to have tried to fight, but only to escape, and his first account of the affair is no doubt the correct one, as anyone acquainted with the Indians and their mode of fighting will admit its feasibility.
“I understand that there was an ex-soldier at the World’s Fair in Chicago, who posed as a soldier in the Seventh cavalry, who escaped from the fatal field. He was an impostor, for none but Curley left the ground alive. He may have dreamed it and believes in dreams.
“When the Seventh cavalry rode away from Fort Lincoln with the White Horse company, the band belonging to it played one of Custer’s favorites, ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me.’ Ever after that, when I heard the familiar tune on the plains, my mind was carried back to the parting scene at the fort,325 and in the foreground of memory’s picture stands, with tear-dimmed eyes, a sad, brave woman. Well might her heart nigh break, for she knew, as no one else did, that her brave husband was going on an expedition fraught with untold, hidden dangers, and not upon a summer outing.
“Crazy Horse and Goose, each with a band of Cheyennes, fought against Custer. In fact, the former was looked upon as the head war chief, Sitting Bull being more of a medicine man and prophet. The prevalent belief is that Sitting Bull was the worst Indian and head war chief. This is a mistake. There were several worse than he and more treacherous, but as most of them are dead and good Indians, I will not take the trouble to name them or to recount their good (?) deeds. Gall was the head man among those who fought Reno and Benteen, and would have got away with them only for the personal bravery of the latter.
“When General Terry left the field and General Miles took command all Terry’s and Custer’s scouts who were alive went to work for the new commander, except George Mulligan and Jimmy-from-Cork. But there were only five of us left—Bob and Bill Jackson, Vick Smith, Cody and myself. However, Miles re-enforced us with several others.
“Scout Billy Jackson was with Custer on the morning of the 25th, but left before the engagement to join Reno, and knew nothing of the terrible conflict until the next day. On the 27th they came to the battlefield, and Jackson, with four other scouts, identified the remains of General Custer and Scout Reynolds. His report of the battlefield may be vouched for, as he was ever known as a brave, cool, clear-headed and truthful scout, whom General Miles said he could always depend upon. He, too, maintains that Custer did not go contrary to orders.”
327 Custer had divided his force into three parts. Benteen had orders to sweep everything before him to the left, and Reno was to drive right at the enemy. But it seems that neither he nor any other officer who was in this campaign had an idea that the Indian forces were as strong as they proved to be. There were at least eight Indian warriors to one soldier; neither did he know that they were so well supplied with arms and ammunition. Here is where Custer was deceived, or likely he would have kept his men together and won the battle.
On the arrival of General Gibbon the dead were buried and the wounded men of Reno’s and Benteen’s commands were given attention. After Gibbon and his men returned to Fort Shaw, I had an interview with the general and with many of the soldiers who were on the battlefield and assisted in burying the dead. They said that all the men, except Custer, were horribly mutilated and divested of all their clothing.
Again we return to Sitting Bull. Soon after the death of Custer, Sheridan, who was at the head of the war department, called out troops and fought him the balance of the season almost continuously, but the great chief always avoided open battle. In October General Miles drove him across the Missouri river, killing some Indians, capturing two thousand men, women and children, and destroying many of their supplies. The warriors who remained were scattered and discouraged; skulked back into the mountains, while Sitting Bull, with his followers crossed the line into the British possessions. In the meantime Generals Crook and Terry fought and defeated Chief Crazy Horse on the Rosebud towards the close of the year.
To give an idea of the vastness of the country where the hostile Indians had established their camps, I will give the approximate area, which was 125 by 200 miles, or 25,000 square miles. The Yellowstone river is about 350 miles long,328 200 of which was included in this area. The length of Powder river is 150 miles; the Tongue river the same, the Rosebud 125, the Big Horn about of similar length. With all of the tributaries of these rivers, and with the hills and mountain passes, the Indians were familiar; in this respect they had the advantage over the military. To go into details of those campaigns, extending over this great territory—the fearful severity—the long marching for months at a time through an untrodden wilderness, and sometimes a scarcity of food, clothing and bedding—the many battles that were fought, to which I have made no reference; burying the dead and taking care of the wounded—to tell all this would make a book in itself. But one thing I will insert here: That monument in Custer county, which marks the graves of those who have given their lives for this mountain land, and are peacefully sleeping at the base of it, will be kept erect by the Montanians as long as those everlasting peaks which overlook this sacred spot from the mountain tops near by shall remain.
Robert Vaughn.
July 24, 1899.
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È prevista solo una data in Italia per il nuovo tour di LP, all'anagrafe Laura Pergolizzi, il 15 maggio 2019 al Fabrique di Milano.
La cantautrice ha da poco pubblicato "Heart to Mouth”, uscito il 7 dicembre scorso.
“Heart to Mouth” è il quinto album in studio di LP anticipato dal singolo “Girls Go Wild” e dall’apripista “Recovery”. L’artista è stata in Italia per due tappe del suo instore tour negli scorsi giorni avvenuto a Roma e Milano. Parlando del nuovo album ha dichiarato: “Quando mi metto a comporre, c’è una sola linea, dritta: dal mio cuore alla mia bocca. In passato, c’era una città piena di strade che aveva bisogno della mia attenzione. Ora, mi sento come se avessi una grande autostrada per comunicare emozioni. Che si tratti di canzoni melanconiche o di grandi inni, vengono tutte dallo stesso posto”. Nei testi di “Heart to Mouth” sono affrontati diversi temi: dall’amore alle insicurezze, dal rimpianto all’infedeltà, passando per la redenzione, il sogno, l’abbandono, la lussuria e l’insicurezza. La cantante ha lavorato all’album insieme al “solito” Mike Del Rio, suo storico collaboratore, che già aveva curato la produzione di “Lost on You”.
Nonostante il nome italiano derivante da una madre napoletana e un padre per metà siciliano e per metà irlandese, LP non parla la nostra lingua. Nata nel 1978 ad Huntington, Long Island, New York, e cresciuta a Los Angeles, la cantautrice ha iniziato la sua carriera pubblicando due album, "Heart-Shaped Scar" del 2001 e "Suburban Sprawl & Alcool" del 2004, con due etichette indipendenti che tuttavia non sono riuscite distribuirli a dovere.
Per fortuna, questi primi insuccessi non l'hanno fermata e per diversi anni, LP ha lavorato nell'ombra come compositrice di hit per altre popstar, che includono Rihanna, per cui ha scritto "Cheers (Drink to That)", Christina Aguilera ("Beautiful People"), Cher ("Red", "Pride") e Leona Lewis ("Fingerprints"). Nel frattempo, ha continuato a studiare ed ha iniziato a suonare frequentemente l'ukulele, tanto che, come riporta Enrico Esposito in un articolo su Il Termopolio, la Martin Guitars ha costruito appositamente per lei un ukulele modificato in chitarra, con 6 corde invece di 4.
Dal 2014 ha ripreso ufficialmente ad interpretare le sue canzon aprendo i concerti di Bryan Ferry in America e pubblicando per la Warner Bros prima l'EP "Live at EastWest Studios" e poi l'album "Forever for Now", del 2014, seguito lo scorso 9 dicembre 2016 da "Lost on You", che l'ha portata all'attenzione del pubblico italiano.
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The Postcard
A postally unused Plastichrome Series postcard by Colourpicture of Boston 15, Massachusetts, U.S.A. The card was published exclusively for the State of New Hampshire Recreation Division.
On the back of the card the publishers have printed the following:
'Old Man of The Mountains.
Franconia Notch, N.H.
This profile, formed during the Ice
Age, was worshiped by the Indians
as the profile of the "Great Spirit".
It was first discovered by white men
in 1805.
The face, which measures 48 feet
from forehead to chin, is 1,200 feet
above Profile Lake, and 3,200 feet
above sea level'.
Franconia Notch
Franconia Notch (elev. 1,950 feet/590 m) is a major mountain pass through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Dominated by Cannon Mountain to the west and Mount Lafayette to the east, it lies principally within Franconia Notch State Park.
It is traversed by the Franconia Notch Parkway (Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 3). The parkway required a special act of Congress to sidestep design standards for the Interstate highway system, because it is only one lane in each direction.
The Old Man of the Mountain
The Notch was home to the Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation whose profile is a symbol of the state of New Hampshire, until it collapsed in 2003.
The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a face when viewed from the north.
Franconia Notch is a valley that was shaped by glaciers. The Old Man formation was probably formed from freezing and thawing of water in cracks of the granite bedrock sometime after the retreat of glaciers some 12,000 years ago.
The formation was first noted in the records of a Franconia surveying team around 1805. Francis Whitcomb and Luke Brooks, part of the surveying team, were the first two to record observing the Old Man.
The Old Man first became famous largely because of statesman Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native, who once wrote:
"Men hang out their signs indicative
of their respective trades; shoemakers
hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a
monster watch, and the dentist hangs
out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains
of New Hampshire, God Almighty has
hung out a sign to show that there He
makes men."
The writer Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Old Man as inspiration for his short story "The Great Stone Face", published in 1850, in which he described the formation as:
"A work of Nature in her mood
of majestic playfulness".
The profile has been New Hampshire's state emblem since 1945. It was put on the state's license plate, state route signs, and on the back of New Hampshire's Statehood Quarter, which is popularly promoted as the only US coin with a profile on both sides.
Before the collapse, it could be seen from special viewing areas along Interstate 93 in Franconia Notch State Park, approximately 80 miles (130 km) north of the state's capital, Concord.
The Collapse of The Old Man of the Mountain
Freezing and thawing opened fissures in the Old Man's "forehead". By the 1920's, the crack was wide enough to be mended with chains, and in 1957 the state legislature passed a $25,000 appropriation for more elaborate weatherproofing, using 20 tons of fast-drying cement, plastic covering, and steel rods and turnbuckles, plus a concrete gutter to divert runoff from above.
Nevertheless, the formation collapsed between midnight and 2 a.m. on the 3rd. May 2003.
After the Collapse
Dismay over the collapse was so great that people visited to pay tribute, including leaving flowers.
Many New Hampshire citizens considered replacement with a replica. That idea was rejected by an official task force in 2003 headed by former Governor Steve Merrill.
In 2004, the state legislature considered, but did not accept, a proposal to change New Hampshire's state flag to include the profile.
On the first anniversary of the collapse in May 2004, the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund (OMMLF) began operating coin-operated viewfinders near the base of the cliff. When looking through them up at the cliff of Cannon Mountain one can see a "before" and "after" of how the Old Man of the Mountain used to appear.
Seven years after the collapse, on June 24, 2010, the OMMLF, now the Friends of the Old Man of the Mountain, broke ground for the first phase of the state-sanctioned "Old Man of the Mountain Memorial" on a walkway along Profile Lake below Cannon Cliff.
It consists of a viewing platform with "Steel Profilers", which, when aligned with the Cannon Cliff above, create what the profile looked like up on the cliff overlooking the Franconia Notch.
Birth name : William Christopher Handy
Also known as "The Father of Blues"
Born November 16, 1873, Florence, Alabama
Died March 28, 1958
New York City, New York
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician, often known as the "Father of the Blues". Wrote song St Louis Blues which was a giant hit and recorded my many famous singers and made into a movie about his life.
Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the style of music that is distinctively American, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form not only because he was able to notate his music for publication and hence, posterity, but because of syncopated rhythms, a style unique to his music.
While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a not very well-known regional music style from the Delta to one of the dominant forces in American music.
Handy was an educated musician who used folk material in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from several performers. He loved this folk musical form and brought his own transforming touch to it.
Handy was born in Florence, Alabama to Charles Bernard Handy and Elizabeth Brewer. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, another small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues, that he was born in the log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became an African Methodist Episcopal minister after emancipation. The log cabin of Handy's birth has been saved and preserved in downtown Florence.
Handy was a deeply religious man, whose influences in his musical style were found in the church music he sang and played as a youth, and in the sounds of nature in Florence.
He cited the sounds of nature, such as "whippoorwills, bats and hoot owls and their no he did not he notcooolmhe did nh noises," the sounds of Cypress Creek washing on the fringes of the woodland, and "the music of every songbird and all the symphonies of their unpremeditated art" as inspiration.
Growing up he apprenticed in carpentry, shoemaking and plastering, and bought his first guitar that he had seen in a local shop window and had secretly saved for by picking berries, nuts and making lye soap, without his parents' permission. His father, dismayed at his actions, asked him, "What possessed you to bring a sinful thing like that into our Christian home?" He then ordered him to "Take it back where it came from," and enrolled him in organ lessons. His days as an organ student were short lived, and he moved on to learn the cornet.
Musical and social development
Handy joined a local blues band as a teenager, but he kept this fact a secret from his parents. He purchased a cornet from a fellow band member and spent every free minute practicing it. An exceptional student in school, he placed near the top of his class. In September of 1892, Handy traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to take a teaching exam, which he passed easily. He obtained a teaching job in Birmingham but soon learned that the teaching profession paid poorly. He quit the position and found work at a pipe works plant in nearby Bessemer.
During his off-time, he organized a small string orchestra and taught musicians how to read notes. He formed a quartet called the "Lauzetta Quartet." When the group read about the upcoming World's Fair in Chicago, they decided to attend. The trip to Chicago was long and arduous. To pay their way, group members performed at odd jobs along the way. They finally arrived in Chicago only to learn that the World's Fair had been postponed for a year. The group then headed to St. Louis but working conditions there proved to be very bad. The Lauzetta Quartet disbanded and Handy subsequently left St. Louis for Evansville, Indiana.
In Evansville, Handy's luck changed dramatically. He joined a successful band which performed throughout the neighboring cities and states. While performing at a barbecue in Henderson, Kentucky, he met Elizabeth Price, and they married shortly afterwards (on July 19, 1896).
His musical endeavors were varied, and he sang first tenor in a minstrel show, moved from Alabama and worked as a band director, choral director, cornetist and trumpeter. At age 23, he was band master of Mahara's Colored Minstrels.
As a young man, he played cornet in the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and in 1902 he travelled throughout Mississippi listening to various musical styles played by ordinary Negroes. The instruments most often used in many of those songs were the guitar, banjo and to a much lesser extent, the piano. His remarkable memory served him well, and he was able to recall and transcribe the music he heard in his travels. In particular, he noted in his autobiography a blues guitarist he heard in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
Shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Price in 1896, he was invited to join a minstrel group called "Mahara's Minstrels." In their three year tour, they travelled to Chicago, throughout Texas and Oklahoma, through Tennessee, Georgia and Florida on to Cuba, and Handy was paid a salary of $6 per week. Upon their return from their Cuban engagements, they travelled north through Alabama, and stopped to perform in Huntsville, Alabama. Growing weary from life on the road, it was there he and his wife decided to stay with relatives in his nearby hometown of Florence.
On June 29, 1900 in Florence, Elizabeth gave birth to the first (a daughter, Lucille) of their six children. Around that time, William Hooper Councill, President of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes in Normal, Alabama (a small community just outside Huntsville) approached Handy about teaching music. At the time, AAMC and Tuskegee Institute were the only colleges for Negroes in Alabama. Handy accepted Councill's offer and became a faculty member that September. He taught music there from 1900 to 1902 which is today named Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University.
An important factor in his musical development and in music history, was his enthusiasm for the distinctive style of uniquely American music which was often considered inferior to European classical music. He was soon disheartened to discover that American music was often cast aside by the college and instead emphasized foreign music considered to be "classical". Handy felt he was underpaid and felt he could make more money touring with a minstrel group and after a dispute with AAMC President Councill, he resigned his teaching position to rejoin the Mahara Minstrels to tour the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. In 1903 he was offered the opportunity to direct a black band named the Knights of Pythias, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Handy accepted and remained there six years.
Transition: popularity, fame and business
In 1909 he and his band moved to Memphis, Tennessee and established their presence on Beale Street. At that time, American society and culture were distinctly segregated, and Handy's observations of whites' responses to native black music in conjunction with his own observations of the habits, attitudes and music of his ethnicity served as the foundation for what was later to become the style of music popularized as "the Blues."
The genesis of his "Memphis Blues" was as a campaign tune originally entitled as "Mr. Crump" which he had written for Edward Crump, a successful Memphis, Tennessee mayoral candidate in 1909 (and future "boss"). He later rewrote the tune and changed the name to "Memphis Blues."
The 1912 publication of his "Memphis Blues" sheet music introduced his style of 12-bar blues to many households and was credited as the inspiration for the invention of the foxtrot dance step by Vernon and Irene Castle, a New York–based dance team. Some consider it to be the first blues song. He sold the rights to the song for US$100, and by 1914, when Handy was aged 40, his musical style was asserted, his popularity increased significantly, and he composed prolificly.
Because of the difficulty of getting his works published, he published many of his own works, and in 1917, he and his business moved to New York City. By the end of that year, his most successful songs, "Memphis Blues", "Beale Street Blues", and "St. Louis Blues," had been published. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a white New Orleans jazz ensemble, had recorded the very first jazz record that year, introducing jazz music to a wide segment of the American public. Handy initially had little fondness for this new "jazz" music, but jazz bands dove into the repertoire of W. C. Handy compositions with enthusiasm, making many of them jazz standards.
Handy's foray into publishing was noteworthy for several reasons. Not only were his works groundbreaking because of his ethnicity, but he was among the first blacks who were successful because of it. The rejection of his manuscripts for publication led him to self-publish his works. In 1912, Handy met Harry H. Pace at the Solvent Savings Bank in Memphis. Pace was valedictorian of his graduating class at Atlanta University and student of W. E. B. DuBois. By the time of their meeting, Pace had already demonstrated a strong understanding of business and earned his business reputation by rebuilding failing businesses. Handy liked him, and he later became manager of Pace and Handy Sheet Music.
In 1920, frustrated at white publishing companies that would buy their music and lyrics and record them using white artists, Pace amicably dissolved his long-standing partnership with Handy, with whom he also collaborated as lyricist, and resolved to start his own record firm, which he later named Black Swan Records. For years, scholars thought Handy was a founder of Black Swan Records. However, Handy wrote: "To add to my woes, my partner withdrew from the business. He disagreed with some of my business methods, but no harsh words were involved. He simply chose this time to sever connection with our firm in order that he might organize Pace Phonograph Company, issuing Black Swan Records and making a serious bid for the Negro market. . . . With Pace went a large number of our employees. . . . Still more confusion and anguish grew out of the fact that people did not generally know that I had no stake in the Black Swan Record Company."
Although Handy's partnership with Pace was dissolved, he continued to operate the publishing company as a family-owned business, and published works of other black composers as well as his own, which included more than 150 sacred compositions and folk song arrangements and about sixty blues compositions.
In the 1920s, he founded the Handy Record Company in New York City.
Bessie Smith's January 14, 1925, Columbia Records recording of "St. Louis Blues" with Louis Armstrong is considered by many to be one of the finest recordings of the 1920s.
In 1926 he authored and edited a work entitled Blues: An Anthology—Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, which is probably the first work of its type which attempted to record, analyze and describe the blues as an integral part of the U.S. South and the history of the United States.
So successful was Handy's "St. Louis Blues" that in 1929, he and director Kenneth W. Adams collaborated on a RCA motion picture project of the same name, which was to be shown before the main attraction. Handy suggested blues singer Bessie Smith be placed in the starring role, since she had gained widespread popularity with that tune. The picture was shot in June and was shown in movie houses throughout the United States from 1929 to 1932.
The genre of the blues was a hallmark of American society and culture in the 1920s and 1930s. So great was its influence, and so much was it recognized as Handy's hallmark, that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his novel The Great Gatsby that "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor."
Later life
Following publication of his autobiography, Handy published a subsequent book on African American musicians entitled Unsung Americans Sung, which was published in 1944. He wrote a total of five books:
1. Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs
2. Book of Negro Spirituals
3. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
4. Unsung Americans Sing
5. Negro Authors and Composers of the United States
In this time period, he lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem. An accidental fall from a subway platform in 1943 resulted in his blindness. Following the death of his first wife, he remarried in 1954 at age 80 to his secretary Irma Louise Logan, who he frequently said had become his eyes.
In 1955 he suffered a stroke and became confined to a wheelchair. Over 800 people attended his 84th birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
On March 28, 1958, W. C. Handy succumbed to acute bronchial pneumonia and died. Over 25,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Over 150,000 people gathered in the streets near the church to pay their respects.
He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
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Opening-act dei Metallica l’8 maggio 2019 all’Ippodromo SNAI di San Siro al Milano Summer Festival, i Ghost.
Lars Ulrich ha spiegato a Kerrang! come mai i Metallica hanno scelto Ghost e Bokassa come support act per il tour europeo:
- “I Bokassa sono fottutamente grandiosi. Le canzoni che scrivono, tutta la loro energia e le vibrazioni che emanano sono una boccata d’aria fresca. Quando ho ascoltato la loro musica per la prima volta un anno fa, sono andato fuori di testa! Poterli presentare a un pubblico più vasto è una cosa super cool!”.
- “Per me, Tobias (Forge, il frontman dei Ghost) è un tipo fantastico. Mi piace molto la sua energia e stare accanto a lui. Tutti nella nostra band sono grandi fan dei Ghost e sembra che anche i nostri supporter li amino. Quando scegliamo i gruppi spalla, cerchiamo sempre persone che ci piacciono e con cui andiamo d’accordo. Non vediamo l’ora di essere in tour con loro."
I Ghost, precedentemente conosciuti come Ghost B.C. negli Stati Uniti, sono un gruppo musicale heavy metal svedese, formatosi a Linköping nel 2006.[4] Il loro primo album, Opus Eponymous, pubblicato nel 2010, è stato nominato al Grammis, contribuendo ad incrementare la loro popolarità.[5] Il secondo album Infestissumam, che è stato pubblicato nel 2013, ha vinto il Grammis Award nel 2014 per il Miglior Album Hard Rock/Metal.[6] Il terzo album in studio, Meliora, è stato pubblicato nel 2015 ed è subito diventato l'album più venduto in Svezia. Il singolo Cirice, tratto da Meliora, ha vinto il Grammy Award nel 2016 per la Migliore interpretazione metal. Nel 2018 pubblicano il loro quarto album, Prequelle.
L'immagine della band è totalmente incentrata su un look eccentrico e di ispirazione ecclesiastica, che prevede sei musicisti dal volto coperto di cui cinque denominati Nameless Ghouls, capeggiati dal cantate denominato Papa Emeritus (vero nome Tobias Forge), che ad ogni album abdica e viene sostituito, secondo la band, da un Papa più giovane.
Nel 2017 cinque membri del gruppo si sono rivelati al pubblico e quattro di loro hanno citato in causa Tobias Forge, il Papa Emeritus, svelando anche la sua identità.
Cardinal Copia (Tobias Forge) – voce
Nameless Ghoul Aether (Ben Christo) – chitarra ritmica
Nameless Ghoul Alpha (Chris Catalyst) – chitarra solista
Nameless Ghoul Water (Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson) – basso
Nameless Ghoul Air (Zac Baird) – tastiera
Nameless Ghoul Earth (Jan Vincent-Velazco) – batteria
Papa Nihil – saxophone
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Red Bull Flying Bach, lo spettacolo unico che unisce le melodie immortali di Bach e le acrobazie tipiche della break dance, sabato 1 ottobre al Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano.
Dopo aver collezionato sold-out in tutto il mondo, a grande richiesta il Red Bull Flying Bach torna in Italia, dopo quattro anni, per cinque imperdibili appuntamenti che vedranno ancora una volta fondere, in un unico show, passato e presente a colpi di danza. La breakdance, rappresentata dai Flying Steps, la crew campione del mondo, incontrerà I passi di danza della ballerina Virginia Tomarchio (ex vincitrice Amici 14), il tutto sulle note della musica del compositore e musicista Johann Sebastian Bach.
Con la direzione artistica di Vartan Bassil e Christoph Hagel i ballerini hanno dimostrato che la breakdance e la musica del celebre compositore tedesco possono fondersi perfettamente. La performance, unica nel suo genere, dà nuova vita al “repertorio di clavicembalo ben temperato” di Bach, miscelando la musica “colta” alla cultura giovanile, nota dopo nota e passo dopo passo. Protagonisti dello show, in una trama di 70 minuti, sono un pianoforte e un clavicembalo, beat elettronici e passi di breaking come head spin, power move e freeze, mentre sullo sfondo scorrono immagini audiovisive.
La creazione di una propria grande produzione era un vecchio sogno dei Flying Steps. Vartan Bassil, fondatore dei Flying Steps, direttore artistico e premiato coreografo, racconta «Nei tentativi precedenti di unire musica classica e breakdance, i B-boys avevano contribuito alla musica semplicemente con i propri passi. Per il Red Bull Flying Bach invece non ci limitiamo solo a ballare, ma a focalizzare e ridare vita al Well-Tempered Clavier di Bach. Per noi, il Red Bull Flying Bach World Tour è un sogno divenuto realtà. Vogliamo incantare con la nostra arte il pubblico di ogni continente». E il direttore Christoph Hagel aggiunge «Le movenze di una crew di Breakdance sono tanto cool quanto le fughe di Bach. Dalla Croazia al Giappone, se ne accorgeranno tutti».
Two of my photos of Goshen, NY have been published in Hudson Valley, Magazine. April 2012 issue.
This is one of Main Street.