HOOVER DAM, MEMORIAL BRIDGE and a CACTUS GARDEN

Posted on September 14, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Featuring Another Theme-tastic Music Quiz

Approaching the Hoover Dam on a day trip from Las Vegas, you first get these views of Lake Mead, the body of water the Hoover Dam created.

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This is the first view of Hoover Dam you get after parking your car at the designated lot.

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Dam! Song Query #1 – Who are the movie/tv stars singing “Dammit Janet” in this song from which cult musical?

(What you thought I would feature songs about actual dams? Nope, don’t have any, but I will share songs about actual bridges at least. Answers to the query questions as always can be found amongst the tags at the bottom of the post)

Looking to the right, from the same spot, the new Memorial Bridge, that now diverts traffic off of the Dam’s road (which had become too narrow for all those cars).

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Memorial statues in the art deco style of the time the dam was completed.

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This would not be the last time this trip we would see tourists posing like this in front of something imposing…

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The Staten Island September 11th Memorial

Posted on September 11, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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This year at this date, I would like to share photos I took earlier this summer at the Staten Island September 11th Memorial, just across the water from Manhattan’s financial district, and the new World Trade Center.

The memorial lists the names and sculpts the profiles of Staten Island residents who were lost.

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I will include recordings of my 9/11 oratorio “The Song of Job 9:11”.

You can watch video of a concert and listen to and read more about that piece at its designated page.

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LAS VEGAS STRIP TEASE

Posted on September 9, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Ah, Las Vegas…

They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

And that may be true, or it may just be a somewhat devilish advertising slogan.

But these photos of Vegas, or more specifically, the famed Vegas Strip of hotel casinos and their alluring attractions, didn’t stay there. I brought these home to share with you.

For what that’s worth. Some photos and some pithy commentary may not substitute for experiencing the real thing. Think of this as a tease then. A Las Vegas Strip Tease…

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We’ll start with some day time wide shots of the Vegas Strip. We’ll get to the night later. And we will get inside many of the more famous hotel and casinos too, past the outer facades, so to speak, to examine the inner facades …

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No, that’s not the real Paris Eiffel tower, of course (just as that’s not the real Venice Plaza de San Marco tower below). It’s part of the Paris hotel and casino, only one of many hotel casinos that are constructed like theme parks, including actual rides, as I’ll show later when we visit them one by one…

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Ed and I actually slid down that particular water slide below, twice. But I must say it’s a rather brutal thump in the groin as you take that final splash at the bottom.

Behind is the Stratosphere Tower, which boasts sky high thrill rides dangling from the tower. I however only seldom saw these rides in action whenever I glanced at it from afar.

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Ed and I are not into gambling, or malls, or booze, or let’s face it most of the attractions Las Vegas offers its approximately 33 million visitors annually. So why did we visit? Well, it was actually our fly-into point to embark on a grand tour of many of the great National Parks of the American Southwest. I’ve already posted a few introductory posts along those lines, and I’ll be sharing much more of that exhilarating beauty in many blog posts to come.

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Yet this blog post is all about Vegas, baby!

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Regarding Las Vegas, I have always wanted to see some of the Cirque du Soleil extravaganzas ensconced there. We enjoyed Zumanity, Ka, and O. The latter two, with their especially designed theaters and elaborate productions, are unique live shows that can only be experienced in their specific venues. Those shows quite literally, logistically, will stay in Vegas, only to be enjoyed there.

As a friend of mine told me, some people spend their money on gambling, some on theatre. Different kicks for different tricks. Fair enough.

But I haven’t yet heard of one’s theater addiction resulting in bankruptcy, destroyed relationships, rehab and theatergoers anonymous. Just saying.

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Above, the Shrine Of Four-Faced Brahma. Below, the Vegas strip monorail.

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Sunset in the Trailer Park

Posted on August 28, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Just a little amuse bouche of photo and music quiz

in between larger courses of Two-fisted Touristing

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Ed and I stayed a few days in an airbnb 20 miles south of the Grand Canyon (major photo blog post to come, but be patient; there’s a major cue of major Great American Southwest photo blog posts forming here at Notes from a Composer’s Two-fisted Touristing division).

Eating dinner on the picnic table by our humble temporary abode we enjoyed lovely sunsets. So here are a few lovely pics of that, accompanying a little sunset (and trailer park) related music quiz (as ever, the answers are tucked in the tags below).

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Sunset Music Query #1: This track, titled “Sunset”, is from which Tom Ford directed movie?

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Sunset Music Query #2: Which British Pop Goddess is singing about the “Sunset” here?

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DEATH VALLEY

Posted on August 21, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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A Day in Death Valley

Intense Heat and Awe-Inspiring Desert Beauty

Our first stop in Death Valley, after driving two hours west from Las Vegas, was Zabriskie Point. A million years of volcanic emissions, lake-bed sediments, seismic activity, and rainstorm erosion created this fascinating landscape.

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The actual Death Valley, as seen from Zabriskie Point:

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(those odd creaking sounds may be from my camera, I’m afraid…)

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As we leave Zabriskie Point to view many more otherworldly, beautiful sites, here is a detail of a map of Death Valley, encompassing all the stops we made this day:

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The Furnace Creek Visitor Center keeps you abreast of the temperatures. 110F (44C) seemed really high to us when we arrived.

We would learn that was just the beginning…

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VALLEY OF FIRE

Posted on August 19, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

East of Las Vegas. West of Lake Mead. North of the Hoover Dam.

A Day in Valley of Fire State Park.

We start our tour of the Valley of Fire in and amongst the Beehives, wonderfully fabulous red rock formations, sculpted by the wind and the (occasional) rain over thousands of years.

It looks like some fabulously alien metropolis.

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Caught in a landslide of creation

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RED ROCK CANYON

Posted on August 12, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

A Scenic Drive West of Las Vegas

Ed and I flew into Las Vegas last weekend. It’ll be our base for a week (more on that later) as we plan a tour of the Great American West, or as much of it as we can manage. I’ve never been to this perhaps grandest part of this great country, and I’ve always wanted to. So this is the year that particular dream is being fulfilled.

That’s why my first post of this series of Twofisted Touristing chronicles will start with a desert park, not the glitz of Las Vegas lying just a few miles to the east of Red Rock Canyon.

It is natural wonders these posts will be mostly about after all.

Just a hop, skip, and a 20 minute drive from the part of Las Vegas where whatever happens happens to stay, is the scenic drive that takes you on an easy access loop past some of the main attractions of Red Canyon National Conservation Area. The view above is from the visitor center.

Below, a hiker on one of the many hiking trails through the desert and into the mountains.

The visitor center has humming bird feeders, which attracted this little fellow with the bright red neck:

The view of Las Vegas from the park.

First stop on the scenic route road: Calico I.

I would guess these are the rocks that give Red Rock Canyon its name.

This formation looks a bit like a giant turtle.

Let me see how well I remember what I learned at the visitor center. These rocks were formed from primordial sand dunes, which themselves formed after the primordial ocean, that once covered these parts with water, disappeared.

The darker red rock is from a more recent geological age, the lighter rock is older.

The lines in the rock are various levels of sand before they petrified into stone.

At the visitor center we were reminded to leave no trash (Ed found himself picking up glass and other items fellow travelers had discarded), and to “leave the park better than we found it.”

Which brings me to these four whimsical stone sculptures (peace sign, heart, smiley faces) previous visitors created. Is that leaving the place better than they found it?

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TELL-TALE RINGTONE

Posted on August 6, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Todd Maki, the sound engineer on our short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” surprised me this morning with an email with no subject heading and merely “just for fun” written in the body of the message. Attached was the following video clip, which he titled “Todd’s New Ringtone”:

The clip is from early in the film, quoting a line from the third paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe’s text. Todd had some fun replacing the cello music originally accompanying the narrator with a cheery “ding”.

Maybe I should ask my VFX guy Austin Lepri to add a starlight twinkle to my eye, like in those old detergent commercials.

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SKY MUSIC PUZZLE

Posted on July 30, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Some views out the window on our flight home from Wisconsin will accompany this music quiz (as ever the answers are tucked within the tags below).

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Sky Music Query #1: Who sings this song called “Big Sky”?

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Sky Music Query #2: Who sings this song called “The Big Sky”?

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Remember the days when pop artists released 12 inch vinyl extended versions of their hits? Well I do, because I’m old that way, and here is the 12 inch version, the “Meteorological Mix”, of “The Big Sky”:

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“That cloud looks like cumulus castellus.”

“That cloud is nothing but trouble.”

“That cloud looks like … hmmm… one of those …”

“That cloud looks like snow.”

“No it doesn’t!”

“This cloud ought to be removed immediately!”

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Sky Music Query #3: Of course I will include a song called “Sky Fits Heaven”. You probably can easily identify the singer. Can you also name the album it’s from?

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Ed arguably spent the flight more productively than I:

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The Sound of Recovery Music

Posted on July 21, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Not your childhood van Trapps…

The same friend who treated us to the SCA benefit performance “Snow White and the Seven Hos” invited us to see that show’s impresario Michael Roth’s latest romp “The Sound of Recovery Music”. Once again a beloved classic musical would be lovingly, trashily repurposed as a hysterical inspirational parody polemic about overcoming one’s addictions.

We meet our heroine Maria twirling on a mountaintop singing “The hills are alive with recovery music”. It turns out this novitiate is a sex addict, immediately illustrated by a tryst with a hunky shirtless goatherd.

A sextet of nuns, some played by men in drag, discuss how does one solve this problem with Maria:

“I’d like to say a word on her behalf:

Maria …

would fuck a giraffe!”

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Mother Superior sends Maria to the home of Captain van Smack, where she is to be a temporary governess to the Captain’s seven children, all of whom have addictions of their own. Friedrich has a meth problem (in addition to being an insatiable power bottom), Brigitte has a gambling addiction, Louise a food addiction, Kurt is a pothead, and so on. While the diverse cast of adults playing the children were only a few years out of adolescence, Gretl, the youngest van Smack child, was played by a gnarly 60something in drag.

The children struggle gamely and uproariously with their various addictions. Soon we see Liesl singing with boyfriend Rolf about their sobriety journey: “You’ve got six days, going on seven days…”. (The actor playing Friedrich also played Rolf, which makes sense since both Rolf and Friedrich are both so obviously homosexual in the original movie; as I said to Ed when we later watched Liesl dance with her brother in the movie: the dear girl is fated to dance only with blond gay boys).

Maria bonds with the kids through cheerful songs that aid sobriety and recovery. When they struggle with their addictions, she rallies them by singing about having memories or waking up without mysterious bruises in “these are the joys that recovery brings” (although there is a dark part of me that wants to remember this song rewrite as focusing on “those are a few of my triggering things”). And, rather than teaching them, say, the names of musical notes, as another governess might, Maria teaches mnemonic melodic phrases about the 12 steps (“One, you quit, you say that’s it…”).

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Oh How I Love Our Japanese Red Maple In The Sunshine

Posted on July 13, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

Includes the “Red” music quiz

All answers, as ever here at Notes from a Composer, are tucked inside the tags below.

Red Music Query #1:

We all remember Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Which pop/rock legend sings “Red Rain”?

Red Music Query #2:

This is the title track from the classic movie “The Red Violin”. Who is its Oscar winning composer?

(PS: Read/hear more about “The Red Violin” in The Sighing Strings of Cinema.)

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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

Posted on July 5, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus

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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

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50TH PRIDE NYC

Posted on July 1, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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11 Hours of Pride NYC – Watching and Marching – a Photo Diary

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11:30am – Ed and I perched ourselves at 17th Street and 5th avenue to await the start of the 50th NYC Pride march at noon. At 3pm we were scheduled to assemble with the Quaker contingent to join the march. That alone told us it would be a particularly long Pride march this year, not surprising since it is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that sparked the modern Gay Rights movement and the yearly Pride marches on the last day of June.

But this Pride march, and our part in it, would last even longer than expected, much longer.

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The march begins. As is traditional, the “Dykes on Bikes” roll by first.

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WALLPAPER FROM HELL – Tell-Tale Shoot Diary #5

Posted on June 25, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Spoiler alert!

This post may give away some Tell-Tale movie musicabre design secrets!

Why suddenly a spoiler alert? I have been blabbing about the main plot points of “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” in several posts already, why suddenly get all precious with a spoiler alert?

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Well, the other posts talked about plot points that are well known to anybody who read or possibly even heard of the original Edgar Allan Poe story “The Tell-Tale Heart”. But today I am going to share some crucial set design tidbits. And the set design, particular the wallpaper this post focuses on, may reveal aspects of our short film that have more to do with our cinematic storytelling concept than the Poe plot. And though I will try to be a little cagey in what I reveal and how, not give all away but try to keep a certain amount of mystery alive, it won’t take too much effort to read between the lines, or among the photos, how the set design might have been utilized as a story telling device.

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Above is the back of our set, in the theater space we turned into our film studio for a week.

And below is the wallpaper our set designer Nicholas Callais found. It would have to ultimately fulfill multiple functions.

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Most obviously, it would be the wallpaper of the old man’s bedroom. You might remember from Edgar Allan Poe’s story, how the infamous murder of “The Tell-Tale Heart” takes place in an old man’s bedroom.

Below you can see the bedroom dressed with furniture and framed pictures. And film equipment. And an overturned mattress on the floor indicating which particular scene is being shot …

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“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” is in color. But the flashbacks to the time of the murder are seen in black and white. Here is a screen shot that shows how nicely the gold thread of the wallpaper reflects light.

We also see me as the narrator washing my hands in a big bucker of water. Why would I be doing that…?

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Here we are shooting the shot you see above. That’s Nicholas to my right, and D.P. Jason Chua and Assistant Cameraman Harry Walker behind the camera.

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If you look closely at the pictures on the bedroom wall, you can see a certain special someone making an appearance…

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PRIDE MONTH DAILY MOVIE PLAYLIST

Posted on June 18, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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And so the daily LGBTQ movie shout out commences:

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Call that blog post by its name here.

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That Queer Movie blog post is its own country here.

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TIGER LILIES MUSIC QUIZ

Posted on June 13, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

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Lily Song Query 1: Who is the classic Hollywood star here singing about Lily Marlene?

(As ever with these quizzes, the answers can be found tucked in the tags below)

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Tiger Song Query 1: Name the boxing movie that gave us this feline sensory organ (yea, I know, too easy):

Link to the video

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Lily Song Query 2: Who is the pop diva singing this song called “Lily”, and on what album named after a classic dance movie/fairy tale?

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Tiger Song Query #2: This song is from an album actually called “Tiger Lily”. Name the song and the artist:

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(These tiger lilies, by the way, are just outside our front stoop in Park Slope, Brooklyn)

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Featuring Another Theme-tastic Music Quiz

(What you thought I would feature songs about actual dams? Nope, don’t have any, but I will share songs about actual bridges at least. Answers to the query questions as always can be found amongst the tags at the bottom of the post)

Just a little amuse bouche of photo and music quiz

in between larger courses of Two-fisted Touristing

A Day in Death Valley

Intense Heat and Awe-Inspiring Desert Beauty

(those odd creaking sounds may be from my camera, I’m afraid…)

East of Las Vegas. West of Lake Mead. North of the Hoover Dam.

A Day in Valley of Fire State Park.

A Scenic Drive West of Las Vegas

Dial M for Macabre

Not your childhood van Trapps…

Includes the “Red” music quiz

The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

11 Hours of Pride NYC – Watching and Marching – a Photo Diary

Spoiler alert!

This post may give away some Tell-Tale movie musicabre design secrets!

(As ever with these quizzes, the answers can be found tucked in the tags below)

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