Tours By Isabelle San Francisco Plantation & Houmas House
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The San Francisco Plantation House is located on the north bank of the Mississippi River, separated from the river by Louisiana Highway 44 and a levee. The house stands on about 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land.
It is a 1-1/2 story structure, set on a full-height basement. The basement has a brick floor, reportedly 6 feet (1.8 m) deep.
The house is traditionally ascribed a construction date of 1849–50 and has been restored to an 1850s appearance.
It was built for Edmond Marmillion, and its name is alternatively said to derive either from the city of San Francisco, then celebrated as a destination for the California Gold Rush, or from a corruption of the French phrase son saint-frusquin, meaning the shirt off his back, an assessment of what it cost Marmillion to build the house.
The Houmas plantation had its beginnings when Alexander Latil and Maurice Conway appropriated all of the Houma tribe's land on the east side of the Mississippi River in 1774. Alexander Latil built a French Colonial style plantation house at the site around 1775. It was a working sugarcane plantation by 1803, when the United States obtained the area through the Louisiana Purchase.
Shortly afterwards The Houmas was purchased by Daniel Clark, who began to develop the property and built one of the first sugar mills along this stretch of the river. In June 1807, Clark and territorial Governor William C. C. Claiborne fought a duel on the property, in which Claiborne sustained a gunshot wound to his leg.
The house and what was left of the property was finally purchased by Dr. George B. Crozat in 1940. Crozat began an ambitious program of restoration of the house and gardens. The house and grounds remained in that family until it passed to a new owner, Kevin Kelly, in 2003.
Whitney Plantation
Within the boundaries of the “Habitation Haydel”, as the Whitney Plantation was originally known, the story of the Haydel family of German immigrants and the slaves that they held were intertwined.
In 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery.
Through museum exhibits, memorial artwork and restored buildings and hundreds of first-person slave narratives, visitors to Whitney will gain a unique perspective on the lives of Louisiana's enslaved people.
Museum Hours of Operation
Monday - 9:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday - Closed
Wednesday- 9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday - 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday - 9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday - 9:30am - 4:30pm
Sunday - 9:30am - 4:30pm
Closed New Years Day, Mardi Gras Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
Admission
Tickets must be purchased to access the Whitney Plantation.
Tours to the site and museum can be purchased here.
General Admission - $22.00
Children ages 6-12 - $10.00
Children under 6 are free
Discount Admission - $17.00
Seniors, Students, and Military
Residents of St. John and St. James Parishes - $15.00
Group tours may be arranged for groups of more than 20 people. All group tours require a minimum of booking of two weeks in advance. Tours are booked on a first come, first serve bases and we strongly recommend booking one month in advance. Discount group rates are only available with advance booking. To book your tour or receive more information, contact our Education and Group sales Coordinator at tours@whitneyplantation.com
Location and Telephone
The Whitney Plantation is located just north of New Orleans off of I-10. Our address is 5099 Louisiana Highway 18, Wallace LA 70049. Driving directions can be found here or find us through Google Maps or other navigation choices.
phone number is 225-265-3300.
Parking
Parking is free for guests of the museum. The parking lot is located next to the visitors center.
Parking for tour buses and vans is available.
Transportation and Tours from New Orleans
Please be advise that taking an Uber ride to The Whitney Plantation does not guarantee you will find an Uber ride back to your destination since Uber availability is limited in and around The Whitney Plantation.
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Royal St Charles Hotel New Orleans
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Soprano Lucette KORSOFF: O lieto suol (1910-1911)
Soprano Lucette Korsoff (1876-1955) / O lieto soul / Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) / Recorded: Late 1910 or early 1911 (from unpublished Edison Diamond Disc) --
Lucette Korsoff was born in Genoa, Italy of Russian parents; her father traveled as the impresario of an opera troupe in Russia. In a presentation of this company (1892) in St. Petersburg she first appeared before the public in La Serva Padrona. She then studied singing with Frederic Boyer in Paris and made a second debut (1901) in Toulouse. After s tour of Egypt she came to the Brussels Opera in 1903 and was very successful there. She sang the role of Marie in the first production there of the Bartered Bride in 1905. She sang at the Opera-Comique (1905-1908) and was particularly admired as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. She then came to the United States , where she appeared at the New Orleans Opera. In 1912 she gave several concerts in New York City and sang with the Boston Opera (1912-13). Following another year of study with TersaArkel in Milan she sang as a guest in London (1914) and thereafter at several theaters in Italy and at the Monte Carlo Opera (1918). In 1923 she ended her career and lived as a teacher in Paris; after 1926 she lived in Brussels, where she died in great poverty. A coloratura soprano of polished technique and exquisite tonal shading. Records: G&T (Paris 1906), Zonophone (Paris 1905-1906), Vocalion, Edison, Pathe, US re-issue: Victor. (A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers / Kutsch & Riemens / Chilton Book Company ~ 1969)
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Isabelle Demers Organ Concert
Bach Akademie 2019 Charlotte Bach Festival, Sunday, June 9, 2019 at Myers Park United Methodist Church. Isabelle Demers plays the Myers Park UMC Aeolian-Skinner Organ (Opus 1121, 1947 III/60) with pipe and digital additions by Angerstein & Associates in 1996 which enlarged the organ to IV/81.
With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe. Her 2010 recital for the International Society of Organbuilders-American Institute of Organbuilders convention “left the entire congress in an atmosphere of ‘Demers fever’”. That same year, her performance at the Washington D.C. national convention of the American Guild of Organists was described as “one of the most outstanding events of the convention” (The American Organist). The standing-room-only audience there called her back to the stage five times.
There is no shortage of organists who make their instruments roar; and while her power was never in question, Demers made the instrument sing.”
– Peter Reed, Classical Source.com, England, 2016
She has appeared worldwide in recital in Europe, Oman, Australia, New Zealand, and coast to coast in the United States and her home country of Canada. Highlights of her 2018-2019 season include performances at the Maison Symphonique (Montreal, Québec), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany), City Hall (Stockholm, Sweden), the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing, China), and Westminster Abbey (London, UK), in addition to numerous other engagements in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Dr. Demers is in continual demand by her fellow colleagues as witnessed by performances for regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Institute of Organ Builders and International Society of Organbuilders, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society.
Her first recording on the Acis label, The Old and the New, was met with critical acclaim. Fanfare Magazine called it “superbly produced”, a “clear, tightly focused recording”, and a “brilliantly played program.” Her second disc, featuring the organ works of Rachel Laurin, was released in June 2011, and her recording of Max Reger’s Seven Chorale-Fantasias in November 2012. Her fourth CD, Bach, Bull, and Bombardes (Pro Organo), was released in May 2013. In 2018, she appeared as solo organ accompanist in a recording of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem with the Baylor University Choir, recorded at Duruflé’s church, St. Étienne-du-Mont, in Paris, also on the Acis label.
A native of Québec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers is Organ Professor and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University in Texas.
USA - Southern Hospitality 2011 - New Orleans Katrina Damage
July 12, 2011. Sophie and I went on a guided 2-hour bus-tour on our second day in New Orleans, where we got to see everything from the French Quarter to downtown to the garden district to music scenes and above ground cemeteries. Here, we spent some time in the Ninth Ward, aka the poorer areas of New Orleans, which were hit the hardest by Hurricane Katrina back in August 2005. The man speaking is Dino, our tour guide, explaining what the symbols on the doors of the houses in this area meant during the rescue efforts.
Ophelia's Gaze - a chamber opera by Steve EVERETT
Ophelia's Gaze (2008) - a chamber opera
music, live audio and video, staging - Steve EVERETT
text - Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf Press, 2002) - Natasha TRETHEWEY
soprano - Katherine BLUMENTHAL
strings - VEGA QUARTET
video Shiver - Isabelle DEHAY
costume and stage design - Leslie TAYLOR
Scenes
1. Bellocq's Ophelia voice, speaker (N. Trethewey), digital audio
2. Letter Home - voice, quartet, digital audio
3. Letters from Storyville: December 1910 - speaker, digital audio
4. Countess P's Advice - voice, quartet
5. February 1911, Spectrum - speaker, digital audio
6. March, 1911 - speaker, quartet
7. Bellocq - speaker, digital audio
8. Vignette - voice, cello, live motion capture video
9. Shiver - voice, digital audio, video
10. (Self) Portrait, Postcard - speaker, digital audio
Notes - This is a monodrama structured as a reverie on Ophelia, the young girl portrayed in Emory poet, Natasha Trethewey's collection, Bellocq's Ophelia. The set of poems was written as a narrative sequence and contains the imagined thoughts and perceptions of one of the young prostitutes photographed by E. J. Bellocq in 1912 who worked in a brothel in the Storyville section of New Orleans. The aural-visual relationships in my composition will unfold as a series of tableau using the consciousness of dreams, memories, and reveries described in French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's last work, La Poétique de la Réverie (1960).
The text is sung and spoken by a soprano/narrator who encounters multiple reflections of her own image and the environment in which she exists or imagines. She interacts musically with the string quartet members and visually with her own images reflected in video mirrors. Video cameras and microphones are used to transform her visual identity and voice through interactive computer-processing programs. Technology used in the performance include MaxMSP live music processing environment, a hemispherical audio speaker array, and an interactive video motion capture system developed for this production. This video system consists of infrared light, motion-capture hardware combined with the Eyecon Motion Sensing software and Isadora Graphic Programming Environment.
Biographies
Steve Everett, composer
Steve Everett is Professor of Music and teaches composition, computer music, and directs the Music-Audio Research Center at Emory University.
Isabelle Dehay, video artist
Isabelle Dehay, was born in Paris and currently lives and works in Nantes, France.
Natasha Trethewey, poet
Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She is the 2012 Poet Laureate of the United States and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Katherine Blumenthal, coloratura soprano
A two-time Metropolitan Opera district winner and regional finalist in 2008, Soprano Katherine Blumenthal currently lives in London, England. She completed a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and Literature from Emory University and studied at the Conservatoire International de Paris. Katherine has been a participant in Opera Works in Los Angeles and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Vega Quartet
Quartet in Residence at Emory University, the Vega String Quartet is on the cutting edge of the new generation of chamber music ensembles.
Leslie Taylor, stage designer
Leslie Taylor, the inaugural director of the Center for Creativity & Arts in Emory College, has extensive experience in teaching, design and management.