Trombonist, Tim Connor
Tim Connor is a trombonist and professor at the Frost School of Music (BIO). He performs with several South Florida orchestras but I usually catch him performing at the Frost School of Music. This performance was during, “Children’s Dreams and Inspirations—Frost Wind Ensemble “ on 09.23.2018.
Jazz bands...Outtakes.
I have shot a lot of different types of musical performances - Country Rock (Andrew Morris Band), Classic Rock (Phil Collins, Molly Hatchet), Rock (Emily Estefan, AME@Frost, Jeff Jefferies), Classical Symphony (Frost Symphony Orchestra) and then a few that should need no category, like the Blues Brothers(!). Plus many more! However… There is no music that beat JAZZ for fun and inspiration. The Frost School of Music Jazz program is top shelve in every way - Musicians, performance energy, piece selection, stage presence and visuals. Most of the time I end up with images I enjoy that far outnumber what is considered “an appropriate number” for a gallery, so instead, I will call these outtakes….
Carl St. Clair, guest conductor, Frost Symphony Orchestra 09.15.2018
Pictures at an Exhibition—Carl St. Clair Conducts Frost Symphony Orchestra
as they perform Hector Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9; Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No.2; and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Maestro St. Clair led a power and passionate performance of the Frost Symphony Orchestra. During his introduction to the audience, it was quite apparent the Maestro is an experienced educator with a great sense of humor.
Carl St Clair is a distinguished American conductor whom is faculty at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_St._Clair).
Kneebody at Frost Live
09.14.2018
Kneebody (http://www.kneebody.com) made their first stop at the Frost School of Music’s Frost Live concert series. The night also marked the first stop of their US tour.
From the Frost website:
Adam Benjamin, piano, composer
Shane Endsley, trumpet
Kaveh Rastegar, bass, composer
Ben Wendel, saxophone
Nate Wood, multi-instrumentalist
Kneebody’s sound is explosive rock energy paralleled with high-level nuanced chamber ensemble playing, with highly wrought compositions that are balanced with adventurous no-holds-barred improvising. All “sounds-like” references can be set aside; this band has created a genre and style all its own.
Their music starts as a great mix of electric and jazz and quickly moves into their own, tight sounds. The band has been together for over 13 years. Their mix of talent and history of playing together makes for a great performance!
Photography is derived from both physics and chemistry
The origins of photography is a subject that any classically trained photographer has at least some exposure to. Less so now than prior to 2006 and the transition to digital photography, every photography school, whether they referred to themselves as an art school or a craft school, taught beginning students how to develop a roll of film and a print; also that photography was invented in approximately 1839 when Sir John Herschel happened to mention to Fox Talbot that he had come across a chemical solution - hypo, he called it - that would fix Talbot's pictures.
However, the history is never so simple, or apocryphal, as the stories we are told . Today, I came across a link to a PDF book copy of "Photography" published by C.E. Kenneth Mees during 1937. The book can be found here: MEES. (maintained by Tundraware.com
Mees presents a more detailed history of silver compounds and nitric acid which are the basics of developing images and fixing them on paper. "The first clear record we have, however, is that in 1727 a German physician named Schultze was experimenting on the treatment of chalk with nitric acid." After noticing the white liquid turning black when exposed to light, Schultze filled bottles with the mixture and placed stencils around the bottles to create different shapes. Later, and I love this part of the story, a Swedish chemist would coat paper with a layer of silver chloride and expose it to the spectrum created by a prism. He found that the ultraviolet end of the spectrum would darken the paper more quickly than the infrared end of the spectrum. During 1802, Thomas Wedgwood was creating prints on paper through painted glass! Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy would publish a paper that year entitled, "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Nitrate of Silver." They were 1 small step away from fixing an image created by light on paper 35 years before Fox Talbot!
Mees' history of photography is a very interesting read for those interested in the chemical origins and processes of photography during the first 100 years of the medium.
William Fox Talbot
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh