05.24.07
Eurythmy – Debussy – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair.
This is Julie Lamb and me performing this famous Debussy prelude for eurythmy and piano. We are planning a larger Debussy program with Beth Usher and Barbara Bresette-Mills.
05.18.07
Mind Travel – Seetha
I have wanted to do something psychological with video and music and have made a first attempt. I shot video of my friend Seetha last year. I combined it with May 2006 footage of Chicago and St Joseph Michigan, April 2007 footage of Paris, and a montage of images I have shot over the past 6 years. It is an experiment that will lead to more, and should affect both the Tokyo Narrative, the next completed project, and the Debussy Film.
Chapparal Eurythmy
We are eager to promote the work we do with eurythmy and do more and varied performances. Beth Usher, Barbara-Bresette Mills, and Julie Lamb work with me and are planning adult and children’s performances. This video is a combination of two Shostakovich Preludes and “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair” of Debussy.
I am completing a small page for our group.
05.16.07
Shostakovich-Tokyo III
It took me a little time this spring to really feel the Shostakovich Preludes I performed on Nikita Storojev’s Jessen Recital. Now that I have lived with them, the humor, sarcasm, pain, and struggle resonate within. This is a short piece of some of my unused Japan footage set to Prelude #22. It is a precursor of the Tokyo Narrative, and a companion piece to Tokyo I and Tokyo II.
Zurich, Debussy, Rochester, and Ithaca
I just returned from a quick trip to my old haunts, Ithaca (Sunset Park)
and Rochester (Lake Ontario/Durand Eastman Park)
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It was nice to go home, to see from whence I came. It gave a new perspective and interest in my work. We need to balance past present and future, and I often focus too much on the future.
Last night I put together this short snippet of Debussy’s “Footprints in the Snow.” I will do more this week with Shostakovich Preludes. I am also planning an improvisation to go with a psychological piece about memory, reality, and time.
