Tarsila, the mother of Brazilian Modern Art
In her native country, all you need to say is her first name - Tarsila - for people to recognize the woman known as the Picasso of Brazil. But Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is little-known in North America, despite her revolutionary art. Faith Salie visits an exhibition (now showing at New York City's Museum of Modern Art) of Tarsila's cannibalist paintings, which took the tropes of Western European art and turned them into something extremely Brazilian.
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ArtRio 2014 Shines Spotlight on Brazilian Art Market
In its fourth edition ArtRio welcomed thousands of visitors to the city’s Pier Maua warehouses, presenting work by more than 2,000 artists from over 100 Brazilian and international galleries.
Pérez Art Museum Miami: AMERICANA: Progressive Forms
AMERICANA: Progressive Forms (pamm.org/exhibitions)
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Chief Curator, Tobias Ostrander, discusses AMERICANA: Progressive Forms.
This gallery presents investigations of the legacies of Constructivism, an influential early twentieth-century Russian movement that sought to tie art and design more closely to everyday life through the use of simple industrial materials and machine-like forms. Multiple works engage the grid as a structuring element related to mathematics, order, urban architecture, and industrial production. During the 1960s in the United States, grids and rectangular forms were employed by many artists associated with Minimalism. Their sculptures employ materials such as aluminum and copper in compositions involving repetition or seriality. In Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Venezuela, beginning in the 1950s, the use of geometric forms were closely tied to economic prosperity and the planning of ideal cities. A next generation of contemporary artists from both South and North America created precarious fragmented or eroded grid constructions, as specific references to the unfulfilled legacy of long-term economic and urban development that the geometric abstraction of the postwar period had come to signify.
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at the Pérez Art Museum Miami
An exhibition devoted to “the beautiful game” of football brings together 50 artworks spanning video, photography, painting and sculpture, including portrait-artist-of-the-moment Kehinde Wiley’s depiction of famed striker Samuel Eto’o. For more of Tim Marlow’s must-see April exhibitions, visit Sotheby’s Museum Network.
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The Museum at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute: A Whole World Unfolds
On the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, sits one of the west's truly remarkable destinations, The Museum at Tamástslikt Cultural Institute.
A world class facility inside and out, Tamástslikt is the only museum on the Oregon Trail that tells the story of western expansionism from a tribal point of view. Permanent exhibits bring to life the traditions of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes, who have called the region home for 10,000 years. But the museum doesn't merely remember what has been. Tamástslikt (the word means interpreter) connects this rich, storied history to our present day--did you know, for example, that the confederated tribes are recognized leaders in the restoration of salmon habitats?--and then expands the experience further by sharing the dreams and concerns of its tribal community in a moving exhibit called We Will Be.
2016 Pop Conference Key Note
TO SING: The Care and Keeping of the Voice in Music
What would a conference whose theme is the voice be without singers? This keynote conversation welcomes three remarkable vocalists in discussion about how they’ve discovered, nurtured, and continue to develop both their instruments and their musical vision.
What makes a pop voice distinctive? How do the challenges of a life in popular music, including the difficulties of touring and the challenges of recording, both help shape and sometimes endanger a voice? What is the relationship between songwriting, song interpretation, and “pure” singing? How do singers preserve the pleasure of vocalizing over the course of their lifetimes? What remains personal about the art of singing, and how does that intermingle with technique? How has technology aided the singer’s craft while also sometimes standing in the way of “real” voices being recognized?
These questions and others will be entertained in a casual, fun conversation about what makes a voice, a voice.
Moderated by Ann Powers
Panelists:
Merril Garbus
Valerie June
K.D. Lang
Ann Powers is critic and correspondent for NPR Music. She is the author of several books, including the forthcoming history of American music's relationship with American love and sex.
Merrill Garbus found her voice through studying theater and puppetry, and by traveling the world. As the founder of the unclassifiable tUnE-yArDs, the Bay Area ensemble she’s led since 2006, has she has developed a distinctive blend of the raw and the cooked in music that’s technologically savvy, relentlessly self-exploratory, and spiritually unbound.
Valerie June spent many years developing her voice before emerging as a major young star of Americana music in the early 2010s. Raised in West Tennessee, June absorbed all varieties of Southern music as well as soul, pop, and reggae, and further fed her muse by travelling the country before settling in Memphis.
Four-time GRAMMY® winner K.D. Lang is one of the most beloved songwriters and song interpreters in popular music. Bucking simple definitions of country music in early albums that were true to tradition while playfully making the genre modern, lang, who grew up in Western Canada, made one of the finest albums of the 1980s in Shadowland, her countrypolitan collaboration with the late, great producer Owen Bradley. She became a bona-fide pop star with her 1992 hit “Constant Craving” and has continued to expand our notions of terms like “adult” and “contemporary” with albums that touch upon jazz, Brazilian music, standards, and contemporary classical music.
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Student Project, Branding Piece.
Music is Cirrus by Bonobo
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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
This is the first exhibition to explore the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring 123 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 focuses on their use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
April 13–July 22, 2018
Pérez Art Museum Miami: Julia Dault, Untitled 33, 11:30 AM--2:00 PM, November 5, 2013
From AMERICANA: Progressive Forms
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Julia Dault
Untitled 33, 11:30 AM--2:00 PM, November 5, 2013, 2013
Plexiglas, Formica, Everlast boxing wraps, and string
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami
For this work commissioned by PAMM, Julia Dault worked directly in the gallery with industrially produced sheets of colored and mirrored Formica. Over the course of several hours, she bent and rolled this material, testing it to the point of breaking, using nylon ties which were eventually knotted and attached to the wall to hold the precarious structure in place. This piece is filled with expressive tension, as these materials resist their current configuration. Its title, Untitled 33, 11:30 AM--2:00 PM, November 5, 2013, identifies the number of this work in the series, followed by the date and time of its production.
Arte Pública (1967, Curta)
Focalizando, em seus ateliês, os artistas plásticos Abrahan Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Glauco Rodrigues, Helio Oiticica, Ligia Pape, Lygia Clark, Pedro Escosteguy, Rubens Gerchman,Tomoshige Kusuno, Wesley Duke Lee, e a 9ª Bienal de São Paulo.
Apresentado no Festival de Cinema de Brasilia; selecionado pela Bienal de Paris, 1968
Apresentado na Information Exhibit, MOMA -- Museum of Modern Art, Nova Iorque, 1970
Restaurado pela Prefeitura do Rio, em 2004, e apresentado para a curadoria do Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, para uma grande exposição de arte latino-americana.
Música: Paulo Machado de Barros
Fotografia: Affonso Beato
Direção: Jorge Sirito e Paulo Martins
MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Alexandre da Cunha
Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha (b. 1969) is a poet of found materials. Rarely making objects from scratch, he instead finds wondrously creative ways to repurpose already-existing items. For the MCA’s ongoing Plaza Project series, da Cunha presents objects of an urban scale to address this particular site, including Mix (Americana) (2013), a full-scale cement mixer liberated from its typical location on the back of a delivery truck, and precast concrete sewer pipes—like those coursing underneath Chicago—in order to reveal their inherent if overlooked beauty.
This exhibition is curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The series previously featured work by Yinka Shonibare, MBE (2014), Amanda Ross-Ho (2013), Martin Creed (2012), and Mark Handforth (2011).
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Casa Daros Museum inaugurated after major restoration work
1. Wide tilt down from palm trees to exterior of Casa Daros, a private museum
2. Mid of sign reading: Casa Daros
3. Wide of journalist observing the Virgin Mary artwork by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz inside museum
4. Mid of screen showing time lapse video of how Virgin Mary artwork was made
5. Pan right of exhibition room with art work by Colombian artist Miguel Angel Rojas
6. Wide of news conference at Casa Daros
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Eugenio Valdez Figueroa, one of the directors of the Casa Daros:
In Latin America, it is a region that not only needs to gain visibility in the creation of (artistic) thought but also gain worldwide visibility and recognition in its artistic tradition. Not just in the international (art) scene, but also in (art) history.
8. Pan from left to right of exhibit room with works by Colombian artist Nadin Ospina
9. Tilt up of Bart Simpson in Mayan style sculpture
10. Close-up of Donald Duck in Mayan style gold
11. Close-up of grasshopper by Colombian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso
12. Wide of sculpture
13. Wide of sculpture by Colombian Maria Fernanda Cardoso made of house flies
14. Close-up of house flies sculpture
15. Wide of room featuring coffin made of lego bricks by Colombian artist Fernando Arias
16. Tilt up of coffin
17. Close-up of coffin
STORYLINE
Another museum has opened in Rio de Janeiro in a continuing effort to revamp the city from a laid-back beach town to a major arts centre.
Casa Daros, a museum with a huge private collection of Latin American art was inaugurated on Wednesday in Rio.
The work of Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz is featured in the museum.
Muniz's Our Lady of Mercy artwork, which forms part of his Pictures of Junk series, is on display.
A time-lapse video shows the process to create it.
Muniz rose to international fame with the Oscar-nominated documentary Waste Land, which recorded the collaboration between Muniz and workers from Latin America's largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho. The landfill closed in 2012.
Muniz used the rubbish sorted by the workers to create portraits of the workers.
Brazilian local leaders are working to turn Rio, which is mostly known internationally for its beaches and iconic Carnival, into Latin America's newest cultural hub.
Casa Daros used to be a Catholic school.
One of its directors, Eugenio Valdez Figueroa, said on Wednesday that he wants the Latin America region to gain visibility in the creation of artistic thought and also gain recognition for its artistic tradition.
Casa Daros was founded by a Swiss art collector and it is described as having the world's premier collection of contemporary Latin American art.
The museum's opening exhibits also feature the work of several Colombian artists.
In late February, the Rio Art Museum officially opened with a visit from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
The Museum of Image and Sound, which is being built on Copacabana beach on the site of a former disco, is scheduled to open before the 2016 Olympics, which Rio is hosting.
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Champaign County Historical Museum
Scott Kirby takes us through the Champaign County Historical Museum
To learn more about Scott Kirby, visit his website:
Scott's music is available through CD Baby:
A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, MO, and of the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in 1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby co-founded a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made 25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an ace pianist, CBS News' Charles Osgood agreed that ...Critics call Scott Kirby one of the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.
Kirby's artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano compositions, including The Prairie Devotionals, The paintings (belonging to a set entitled Visions of the Great Plains) and the new musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project Main Street Souvenirs. Kirby now lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marie-Dominique and two daughters Sara and Leah-Marie, and divides his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching.
Kirby has achieved a rarified status as a performer of ragtime and related American styles. Considered Today's best player of Scott Joplin's music (Trebor Tichenor, author of Rags and Ragtime), Kirby has appeared at every major ragtime festival in the U.S., plus events in Hungary, Norway, New Zealand, France, England and Belgium. His unique presentation highlights the worlds of Classic Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues, then expands to include the marches of John Philip Sousa, the songs of Stephen Foster, Latin-American styles, Afro-Cuban rhythms, European Romanticism, Rock & Roll and Original works ranging from the syncopated to the impressionistic. Kirby's sense of Americana is enhanced by his historical commentary, and also by his art work, a series of watercolors entitled Visions of the Great Plains, which he presents in either an accompanying exhibit or in a video presentation during the show.
Kirby also specializes in American and Pan-American musical traditions that span 150 years. From the inventive compositions of New Orleans genius Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Classic Ragtime, Cuban Danzas, Brazilian Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth and Creole styles from the Caribbean, to contemporary works by Kirby himself, the Pan-American umbrella is full of color and variety. Kirby weaves these styles together with historical and cultural background that shows the connections and cross-influences that have been occurring in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years, and have influenced not only American Popular Music, but also American Classical and Art Music composers.
Scott Kirby has composed over 150 works for solo piano and other instruments, which fall into several categories. The early works follow the example of Scott Joplin and the Classic Ragtime composers, but with a decidedly contemporary harmonic sensibility. Later, using Louis Moreau Gottschalk as a model, Kirby began to draw from a wider variety of Pan-American traditions, Latin-American rhythms, afro-caribbean syncopation, and European Romantic influence. This Terre Verde music naturally morphed into a new style that incorporated less syncopation but more distinctive melodic content - a new and highly romanticized Americana. Some of these works may even be considered rural impressionism, and many were directly inspired by the Great Plains and prairies of the heartland. Finally, the romantic sensibility, as well as Baroque, Classical, and even Pop Music influences, led into a Minimalist-Romantic language which draws heavily from the land-music connection, and from Kirby's own spiritual journey - one that (like his music) seeks truth in the process itself.
Manifestantes iemenitas irrompem pela embaixada americana em Sanaa
É a mesma ordem de acontecimentos que se sucederam ontem no Egito. Uma multidão de manifestantes concentrou-se em frente ao edifício da representação diplomática dos Estados Unidos, em Sanaa, no Iémen, numa vaga de revolta contra uma obra cinematográfica considerada uma blasfémia.
Ao que tudo indica, os manifestantes terão mesmo conseguido derrubar o portão principal do complexo que acolhe a residência do embaixador americano, depois de atacarem os postos de segurança no exterior. Há relatos de tiros para o ar e haverá um número ainda não determinado de feridos.
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#emnomedosartistas (Entrevista) Gunnar Kvaran
Entrevista com o curador e diretor da Astrup Fearnley, Gunnar Kvaran, sobre a exposição Em nome dos artistas - Arte norte-americana contemporânea na Coleção Astrup Fearnley, no Pavilhão da Bienal em 2011.
The Hermit of Mad River
Scott Kirby presents the Hermit of Mad River.
To learn more about Scott Kirby, visit his website:
Scott's music is available through CD Baby:
A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, MO, and of the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in 1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby co-founded a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made 25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an ace pianist, CBS News' Charles Osgood agreed that ...Critics call Scott Kirby one of the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.
Kirby's artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano compositions, including The Prairie Devotionals, The paintings (belonging to a set entitled Visions of the Great Plains) and the new musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project Main Street Souvenirs. Kirby now lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marie-Dominique and two daughters Sara and Leah-Marie, and divides his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching.
Kirby has achieved a rarified status as a performer of ragtime and related American styles. Considered Today's best player of Scott Joplin's music (Trebor Tichenor, author of Rags and Ragtime), Kirby has appeared at every major ragtime festival in the U.S., plus events in Hungary, Norway, New Zealand, France, England and Belgium. His unique presentation highlights the worlds of Classic Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues, then expands to include the marches of John Philip Sousa, the songs of Stephen Foster, Latin-American styles, Afro-Cuban rhythms, European Romanticism, Rock & Roll and Original works ranging from the syncopated to the impressionistic. Kirby's sense of Americana is enhanced by his historical commentary, and also by his art work, a series of watercolors entitled Visions of the Great Plains, which he presents in either an accompanying exhibit or in a video presentation during the show.
Kirby also specializes in American and Pan-American musical traditions that span 150 years. From the inventive compositions of New Orleans genius Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Classic Ragtime, Cuban Danzas, Brazilian Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth and Creole styles from the Caribbean, to contemporary works by Kirby himself, the Pan-American umbrella is full of color and variety. Kirby weaves these styles together with historical and cultural background that shows the connections and cross-influences that have been occurring in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years, and have influenced not only American Popular Music, but also American Classical and Art Music composers.
Scott Kirby has composed over 150 works for solo piano and other instruments, which fall into several categories. The early works follow the example of Scott Joplin and the Classic Ragtime composers, but with a decidedly contemporary harmonic sensibility. Later, using Louis Moreau Gottschalk as a model, Kirby began to draw from a wider variety of Pan-American traditions, Latin-American rhythms, afro-caribbean syncopation, and European Romantic influence. This Terre Verde music naturally morphed into a new style that incorporated less syncopation but more distinctive melodic content - a new and highly romanticized Americana. Some of these works may even be considered rural impressionism, and many were directly inspired by the Great Plains and prairies of the heartland. Finally, the romantic sensibility, as well as Baroque, Classical, and even Pop Music influences, led into a Minimalist-Romantic language which draws heavily from the land-music connection, and from Kirby's own spiritual journey - one that (like his music) seeks truth in the process itself.
Champaign Aviation Museum, B-17 (excerpt from Main Street)
Scott Kirby and an excerpt from Main Street Champaign County
To learn more about Scott Kirby, visit his website:
Scott's music is available through CD Baby:
A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, MO, and of the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in 1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby co-founded a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made 25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an ace pianist, CBS News' Charles Osgood agreed that ...Critics call Scott Kirby one of the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.
Kirby's artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano compositions, including The Prairie Devotionals, The paintings (belonging to a set entitled Visions of the Great Plains) and the new musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project Main Street Souvenirs. Kirby now lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marie-Dominique and two daughters Sara and Leah-Marie, and divides his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching.
Kirby has achieved a rarified status as a performer of ragtime and related American styles. Considered Today's best player of Scott Joplin's music (Trebor Tichenor, author of Rags and Ragtime), Kirby has appeared at every major ragtime festival in the U.S., plus events in Hungary, Norway, New Zealand, France, England and Belgium. His unique presentation highlights the worlds of Classic Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues, then expands to include the marches of John Philip Sousa, the songs of Stephen Foster, Latin-American styles, Afro-Cuban rhythms, European Romanticism, Rock & Roll and Original works ranging from the syncopated to the impressionistic. Kirby's sense of Americana is enhanced by his historical commentary, and also by his art work, a series of watercolors entitled Visions of the Great Plains, which he presents in either an accompanying exhibit or in a video presentation during the show.
Kirby also specializes in American and Pan-American musical traditions that span 150 years. From the inventive compositions of New Orleans genius Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Classic Ragtime, Cuban Danzas, Brazilian Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth and Creole styles from the Caribbean, to contemporary works by Kirby himself, the Pan-American umbrella is full of color and variety. Kirby weaves these styles together with historical and cultural background that shows the connections and cross-influences that have been occurring in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years, and have influenced not only American Popular Music, but also American Classical and Art Music composers.
Scott Kirby has composed over 150 works for solo piano and other instruments, which fall into several categories. The early works follow the example of Scott Joplin and the Classic Ragtime composers, but with a decidedly contemporary harmonic sensibility. Later, using Louis Moreau Gottschalk as a model, Kirby began to draw from a wider variety of Pan-American traditions, Latin-American rhythms, afro-caribbean syncopation, and European Romantic influence. This Terre Verde music naturally morphed into a new style that incorporated less syncopation but more distinctive melodic content - a new and highly romanticized Americana. Some of these works may even be considered rural impressionism, and many were directly inspired by the Great Plains and prairies of the heartland. Finally, the romantic sensibility, as well as Baroque, Classical, and even Pop Music influences, led into a Minimalist-Romantic language which draws heavily from the land-music connection, and from Kirby's own spiritual journey - one that (like his music) seeks truth in the process itself.
Daros Latinamerica Collection at Fondation Beyeler
Daros Latinamerica is one of the most comprehensive collections of contemporary Latin American art. The exhibition Daros Latinamerica Collection at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland), introduces the visitors to the Collection by presenting a concentrated selection of works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection. The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler features works by Juan Carlos Alom, Guillermo Kuitca, Jorge Macchi, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Oscar Muñoz, Wilfredo Prieto, Miguel Angel Ríos, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Doris Salcedo, Santiago Sierra, and Melanie Smith.
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Remembrance Day/B-17, Champaign Aviation Museum
Scott Kirby interviews Steve Polsley about the B-17
To learn more about Scott Kirby, visit his website:
Scott's music is available through CD Baby:
A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, MO, and of the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in 1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby co-founded a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made 25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an ace pianist, CBS News' Charles Osgood agreed that ...Critics call Scott Kirby one of the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.
Kirby's artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano compositions, including The Prairie Devotionals, The paintings (belonging to a set entitled Visions of the Great Plains) and the new musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project Main Street Souvenirs. Kirby now lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marie-Dominique and two daughters Sara and Leah-Marie, and divides his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching.
Kirby has achieved a rarified status as a performer of ragtime and related American styles. Considered Today's best player of Scott Joplin's music (Trebor Tichenor, author of Rags and Ragtime), Kirby has appeared at every major ragtime festival in the U.S., plus events in Hungary, Norway, New Zealand, France, England and Belgium. His unique presentation highlights the worlds of Classic Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues, then expands to include the marches of John Philip Sousa, the songs of Stephen Foster, Latin-American styles, Afro-Cuban rhythms, European Romanticism, Rock & Roll and Original works ranging from the syncopated to the impressionistic. Kirby's sense of Americana is enhanced by his historical commentary, and also by his art work, a series of watercolors entitled Visions of the Great Plains, which he presents in either an accompanying exhibit or in a video presentation during the show.
Kirby also specializes in American and Pan-American musical traditions that span 150 years. From the inventive compositions of New Orleans genius Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Classic Ragtime, Cuban Danzas, Brazilian Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth and Creole styles from the Caribbean, to contemporary works by Kirby himself, the Pan-American umbrella is full of color and variety. Kirby weaves these styles together with historical and cultural background that shows the connections and cross-influences that have been occurring in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years, and have influenced not only American Popular Music, but also American Classical and Art Music composers.
Scott Kirby has composed over 150 works for solo piano and other instruments, which fall into several categories. The early works follow the example of Scott Joplin and the Classic Ragtime composers, but with a decidedly contemporary harmonic sensibility. Later, using Louis Moreau Gottschalk as a model, Kirby began to draw from a wider variety of Pan-American traditions, Latin-American rhythms, afro-caribbean syncopation, and European Romantic influence. This Terre Verde music naturally morphed into a new style that incorporated less syncopation but more distinctive melodic content - a new and highly romanticized Americana. Some of these works may even be considered rural impressionism, and many were directly inspired by the Great Plains and prairies of the heartland. Finally, the romantic sensibility, as well as Baroque, Classical, and even Pop Music influences, led into a Minimalist-Romantic language which draws heavily from the land-music connection, and from Kirby's own spiritual journey - one that (like his music) seeks truth in the process itself.