Young performers (part 2)

Sport is a form of expression of a performer who is also therefore an artist.
Oscar Langburne. The performative dream of a brand. The artistic dream of a sport.

Young performers (part 1)

There are a few reasons why we should admire young performers. I will give you a number of those in time. It is certainly a transient state, but not one without its merits.
Let us for now start with Joshua Galasse and let the argument be Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor.

Carcavelos Beach Adagio

Returning to the beach after a long quarantine, I decided to express my mood in a video.

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Shot at Carcavelos Beach, Lisbon (March 2021).
Music by Tomaso Albinoni, ‘Adagio’ performed by Copernicus Chamber Orchestra (dir. Horst Sohm, excerpts).

Waves breaking

For the instrumental version please refer to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, finale.

The journey outside

I challenged myself to paddle out when it was too big for me & my (short) board.
The journey outside is also a journey inside.

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Music by Vangelis ‘Conquest of Paradise’ (excerpts).

You don’t need to dream of California

Enjoy Nature & have fun.

Winter & Summer

The Sublime and the Grotesque

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Images from the movie ‘Mr Brooks’ (MGM, dir. Bruce Evans, 2007, excerpts).
Music from Antonio Vivaldi ‘Viola d’Amore’ (deranged excerpts).

The birth of music

A sensorial experiment. I am playing a violin exercise designed to confront the player with the same notes played in different ways. If in the begining there was just one note, then this must be how music came to be.

Mr. Parish departs

Follow Mr. Parish in his wonderful journey into the afterlife.
When you are a very respectable person, Death meets you in a tie and suit with fanfarre & fireworks.

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Images from the movie ‘Meet Joe Black’ (Universal Pictures, 1998, dir. Martin Brest, excerpts).
Soundtrack from Camile Saint-Saens ‘Danse Macabre’ (Symphony Orchestra of the Marcin Zebrowsky Music School, dir. Zygmunt Nitkiewicz, 2013, excerpts) and Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony Trauermarsch (Junges Philharmonisches Orchester NiederSachsen, excerpts).