4/15/19 – 4:40pm EDT
I am watching with horror and sadness the incredible destruction by fire of Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral.
In grief and helplessness I decided to go through the pictures I took when Ed and I visited Notre Dame last August. I had been creating blog posts based on our Paris trip, and planned to eventually create one focusing on Notre Dame too.
But it wasn’t going to be my next blog post. And I surely wish I didn’t post it under such distressing circumstances.
These photos will start outside the cathedral, enjoying its front facade as we enter the church, followed by a tour all around inside the cathedral, more details from the front of the church, then a walk around the south side, and a return approach from the north at night.
May these photos be a memory tour of what now, from the horrible reports coming in, appears to be greatly lost.
When I plan choir concerts for elementary student performers, I hope to choose songs that will appeal to the age group but also to adults, since the kids’ parents will be our audience. I also like to choose some musically exciting pieces that may seem unusual or difficult, but which I believe children can master and will enjoy. It challenges me as a teacher and artist to push against the boundaries of what is expected from a grade school choir concert.
Most of the short film adaptation of my chamber music theater horror show will be filmed on constructed movie sets. But there is one half day of location shooting scheduled to shoot the entrance (and some interiors) of the home where the man who insists he is no madman kills the old man with the pale blue vulture eye, only to be driven to frenzied confession by the beating of the heart of the dismembered corpse under the bedroom floor boards.
At one point the phone camera turned its lense around for this unplanned selfie of me trying to make a shot avoiding the smudges on the cabin window pane…
