Jim Connolly Website
Posted in Art and Culture on Sep 29th, 2007
Liverpool photographer Jim Connolly now has his own fine website at
www.jimconnolly.org
Archive for September, 2007
Liverpool Welsh Choral Concert Dates 07/08
Posted in Art and Culture on Sep 29th, 2007
08 SEASON OF CULTURE STARTS HERE!
Liverpool Welsh Choral announce plans for an exceptionally exciting season ahead for all music lovers on Merseyside.
Stars from stage, screen and radio will join L.W.C. to present a wide variety of memorable musical concerts.
All promise to be capacity audiences!
BOOK NOW: 0151 652 6374.
* Saturday 10th November 2007.
CHORAL CATHEDRAL CLASSICS.
7.30pm at the Anglican Cathedral. Liverpool.
Scottish stars the Royal Edinburgh Choral join the LWC for this memorable and unique concert.
Programme includes Faure’s unforgettable ‘Requiem’ and Kodaly’s intriguing ‘Laudes Organi.’
World’s largest organ played by talented Stephen Hargreaves with acclaimed conductor Keith Orrell.
* Friday 14th December 2007.
CAROLS FOR THE CITY.
7.30pm at the Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool.
BBC Radio Merseyside’s star presenter Roger Phillips and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral’s star chorister James Orrel join the LWC for the annual, ever popular family concert. Seasonal delights and surprises are assured!
* Saturday 1st March 2008.
ALED JONES.
7.30pm at the Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool.
The popular Welsh baritone, star of TV and radio, joins the LWC and the RLPO to celebrate St David’s Day. Traditional songs and new tunes from Aled’s latest C.D. are highlights of this culturally rich concert.
* Saturday 15th March.
FLINTSHIRE ARTFEST.
7.30pm St Mary’s Church. Mold.
An evening of favourite choral classics at this highly regarded Welsh Music Festival.
* Saturday 24th May 2008.
VOICES ACROSS THE OCEAN.
7.30pm Mossley Hill Church. Liverpool.
LWC are honoured to be joined by members of the prestigious and renowned Pro Arte Choral from New York. Music from both sides of the Atlantic includes Rutter’s sublime ‘Requiem’ and Bernstein’s spectacular ‘Chichester Psalms.’
* Saturday 25th October 2008.
KARL JENKINS. WORLD PREMIERE.
7.30pm. Philharmonic Hall.Liverpool.
A true star in the world of music. LWC Patron Karl Jenkins joins the choir and RLPO for an evening of his own compositions, including a world premiere piece commissioned by LWC to commemorate the Capital of Culture 2008.
LIVERPOOL WELSH CHORAL……’SIMPLY DYNAMIC.’
Nerve Mag Fundraiser - Fri Oct 5 07
Posted in Art and Culture on Sep 28th, 2007
Nerve Magazine and Public Notice present a benefit gig for Nerve featuring live music from Campbell Todd, Greedy Jesus Band, Alicia Rose and Neo-Con, with beats from Si Mack and Pete L.
Friday 5th October 2007, 20.00 - 02.00, at Bar Fresa, Colquitt Street.
£4 on door/£3 concessions.
Catalyst Creative Media
0151 709 9948
http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk
Download the Liverpool 08 Programme
Posted in Art and Culture on Sep 28th, 2007
You can now download the Capital of Culture 2008 programme from the 08 website.
Its pdf file in small print but at least you can zoom in.
Artwork of the Day - Edgar Degas
Posted in Art and Culture on Sep 28th, 2007
Liverpool artwork of the day - Friday September 28 2007. ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ 1880-1 by Edgar Degas, cast circa 1922. Painted bronze with muslin and silk. In Tate Liverpool until April 2009.
This is part of the new DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century: How It Looked & How It Felt which opens tomorrow - Saturday September 29 2007 and runs until Spring of 2009.
The model for this sculpture was a ballet student at the Paris Opéra, where Degas often drew and painted. Degas first made a reddish-brown wax sculpture of her in the nude. Then, aiming for a naturalistic effect, he dressed a three-quarter life-size wax sculpture of her in clothing made of real fabrics - cream-coloured silk for the bodice, tulle and gauze for the tutu, and fabric slippers. He also gave it real hair tied with a ribbon. When the wax sculpture was first exhibited, contemporaries were shocked by the unprecedented realism of the piece. But they were also moved by the work’s representation of the pain and stress of ballet training endured by a barely adolescent girl.
After Degas’ death, his heirs decided in the early 1920s to make bronze casts - nearly thirty of them - of the wax original. In these versions, all is bronze except for the dancer’s gauze tutu and silk ribbon.
Recent investigation into the casting of this piece has shown how the founders attempted to match the colours and aged appearance of the original wax sculpture, which, by this point, had spent forty years in the artist’s studio. Pigmented waxes, ranging in colour from pale orange through pink and brown, were rubbed into the flesh areas.
The bodice was painted a cream colour, but a pigmented wax was applied to darken the lower part. The skirt was dipped in a mixture of animal glue and pigment in order to created an aged effect.
(From the display caption August 2004)
Helmets for the Fashion Conscious
Posted in Art on Sep 28th, 2007
Perhaps not. Strap security seems poor. In any case kids prefer them with flashing lights on the back these
I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton In Art
Posted in Art on Sep 28th, 2007
While some have already dismissed skull imagery as a passing trend, we think when it’s done right it can
Uncertainty Principle
Posted in Art on Sep 28th, 2007
Quantum Mechanically: Uncertain Heisenberg proposed a principle for Luis De Broigle. Wave surfing particle, experimentally
Photo of the Day: Chickies
Posted in Art on Sep 28th, 2007
Photo of the Day: Chickies Photography by: Joseph O. Holmes, NYC Technorati: Photo of the Day, Photograph of the
The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
Posted in Art on Sep 28th, 2007
Press release “What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that
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