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TELL-TALE over TIMES SQUARE
The Tell-Tale Poster Shines on a Big Billboard over Broadway Last night Ed and I travelled to Times Square to watch the poster for my gothic musical short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” be broadcast over Times Square. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged billboard, Black Lives Matter, Broadway, Competition, coronavirus, Covid 19, Ed Elder, Facebook, Film Festival, Godzilla, horror, long hair, Marriot Marquis, Mask, musicabre, New York City, pandemic, poster, Rainbow, Shockfest, Silvercast Media, The Tell-Tale Heart, Times Square
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FESTIVAL PANDEMIC POSTPONEMENTS
See you in … 2021? Below is the 2020 Official Trailer for the Denali Film Festival. It’s a beautifully put together trailer, full of lovely images of the great outdoors. You get a strong sense for the festival’s overriding theme, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Alaska, coronavirus, Covid 19, Denali, Editing, Facebook, festival, film, horror, Horror Hotel, International, landscape, musicabre, musical, nature, Northeast, Ohio, pandemic, The Tell-Tale Heart, Todd Maki, trailer
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108 WYCKOFF
I’ve been taking long walks in Brooklyn lately. And the other day in Cobble Hill I came upon this amazing facade festooning the brownstone at 108 Wyckoff Street. It’s a fantastic riot of mosaics and messages, colored stones and mirror … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 108, agitprop, angel, brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Elijah McClain, figurines, Global Warning, Globe, kittens, lace, mosaic, Mother Earth, No Justice No Peace, Police Brutality, Protest, silhouette, toy, Wyckoff
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED
My husband turns 61 today. Happy birthday, Ed! And just like every year for the past 27, I composed a viola piano duet for us to play. Each one is called an Evocation. This year’s birthday duet, Evocation XXVII, takes … Continue reading
Posted in Chamber Works, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 27, bandit, birthday, coronavirus, duet, Ed Elder, Edward Elder, Evocation, louboutins, manola, music, piano, Rainbow, score, Viola, XXVII
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TELL-TALE BEST FEATURE(TTE)
UPDATE – AUGUST 1, 2020: Central States Indie FanFilmFest has named “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” Best English Language Featurette of the year. After earlier awarding my musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Best English Language Feature/Featurette for the Winter … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, category, Covid 19, English Language, FanFilmFest, featurette, Film Festival, indie, musicabre, musical, quarterly, seasonal, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, winner, winter
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BLACK LIVES MATTER MURALS ON 4TH AND UNION
A construction fence wraps around a shut down gas station on 4th Avenue and Union Street where Park Slope borders Gowanus in Brooklyn. Many Black Lives Matter demonstrations took place in this area this past month, and it is around … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News
Tagged 4th Avenue, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor, brooklyn, change, gas station, gowanus, mural, Park Slope, Peanuts, racism, status quo, Trump, Union Street
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ANOTHER CHANCE to watch THE TELL-TALE HEART – A MUSICABRE
The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre is now playing in the NEW YORK LIFT-OFF FILM FESTIVAL in the NEWCOMERS SHORT 1 program That’s right. You have another chance to watch the well-reviewed “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” at a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, Film Festival, Global, horror, Lift-Off, musicabre, musical, Network, New York, Newcomers, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart
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A DAY IN SEDONA
The Landscape of Red Rock State Park – The Art in the Galleries
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Amelia Earheart, Arizona, Clouds, desert, nature, photography, Red Rock, sky, State Park, sunset, Tlaquepaque Arts
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