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Tag Archives: Ed Elder
EVOCATION XXVIII – for Ed’s 62nd Birthday
Today is Ed’s birthday. And like every year since our first together, I will present him with a viola/piano duet I composed. They are all called Evocations. This year it’s Evocation XXVIII. Ed will probably blanche at the double stops, … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Chamber Works
Tagged 28, birthday, duet, Ed Elder, Edward Elder, Evocation, piano, Viola, XXVII
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ALASKA – Harvard Glacier
We visited Harvard Glacier. Which is just left of Yale Glacier. And up from Vassar Glacier, Bryn Mawr Glacier, Smith Glacier… in College Fjord, Alaska. I’m not kidding. There is a College Fjord with about a half dozen glaciers named … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Bald Eagle, Beloit, Billings, Blackstone, Bryn Mawr, calving, College Fjord, Ed Elder, Elephant seals, Glacier, Harvard, Humpback Whale, Kittiwakes, otters, Port Wells, Prince William Sound, seals, Smith, Titanic, Vassar, Whittier, Yale
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ALASKA – High Times, Low Tide, and Wild Life in Turnagain Arm
Mountain Vistas, Sweeping Inlets, and Alaskan Animals Turnagain Arm is a narrow branch of Cook Inlet, in the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It received its name when Captain Cook went down that way, sure he had found … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Alyeska, Anchorage, Bald Eagle, bear, Beluga Whale, Bird Point, Bison, Black Bear, Captain Cook, Conservation Center, Cook Inlet, Coyote, Dall Sheep, Ed Elder, Elk, Fox, Grizzly, Gulf of Alaska, low tide, Lynx, Moose, Mountain, Musk Ox, nature, Northwest Passage, photography, Polar Bear, Portage Glacier, Reindeer, Shonti Elder, tram, Turnagain Arm, wildlife, Wolf
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EIFFEL TOWER VIEWS
Making my way through the Great American Southwest posts took the focus off our 2018 trip to Paris. Much has been shared from that visit already, but there’s still more. And how could I have not yet included our trip … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Arche de Triomphe, Claire Eiffel, Ed Elder, Eiffel Tower, France, Gustave Eiffel, heights, Montmartre, Paris, photography, Seine, Thomas Edison
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TELL-TALE RUSSIAN SYMPATHY
With tongue in cheek but sincere curiosity I asked whether the jury felt sorry for me… I knew already back in March that the Russian International Horror Film Festival was going to give my short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News
Tagged Award, Covid 19, DROP, Ed Elder, festival, film, gmail, horror, Jury Award, Moscow, musicabre, pandemic, Russian, Russian International Horror Film Festival, short film, Special Prize, Sympathy, The Tell-Tale Heart, translation, Victor Boulankin
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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, Musicabilia, Notes in the News, 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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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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CORONAVIRUS DANCERCISING
Boogieing Away the COVID 19 Blues New York City’s gyms were shut down four days after Broadway and one day after the schools. Six days later the whole state would be ordered to shelter at home. There was to … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged 4 Minutes, Adam Lambert, Can't Keep My Hands to Myself, Chains of Love, coronavirus, Covid 19, dancercise, Dancing By Myself, Dancing Queen, Ed Elder, Energizer Bunny, I Will Survive, I Would Die 4 U, I'm So Excited, k d lang, Kate Bush, Lakme, Martha Graham, Nasty, Playlist, Shake it Off, Shake It Up, Shake Your Bon-Bon, Shake Your Booty, shelter at home, Stranger You Are, superpower, Tai Chi, The Safety Dance, Velvet, Vogueing, Walk Like An Egyptian, You Put a Chill in My heart
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Isabel Allende’s Hosannas to the Quakers
I am in the middle of reading Isabel Allende’s new book “A Long Petal of the Sea”, about refugees from the Spanish Civil War brought to Chile through the efforts of the poet Pablo Neruda. I came upon a … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Lyricism
Tagged A Long Petal of the Sea, Chile, Ed Elder, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Quaker, quote, refugees, Spanish Civil War
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Sunset in the Trailer Park
Just a little amuse bouche of photo and music quiz in between larger courses of Two-fisted Touristing Ed and I stayed a few days in an airbnb 20 miles south of the Grand Canyon (major photo blog post to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged A Single Man, Arizona, beTwixt beTween & beTWAIN, Christmastime in the Trailer Park, Don Henley, Ed Elder, Fiddler on the Roof, Kate Bush, Mississippi, musical, photography, Sunrise Sunset, sunset, Sunset Grill, Sunset on the River, Tom Ford, Trailer Park, Y'All
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The Belligerent Homophobe Who Ruined Rocketman For Us
The three or four loud sneezes that erupted behind us during the 20 minutes of previews were a warning shot that all would not turn out alright for us during this screening of “Rocketman” in midtown Manhattan. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 2016 election, Arrival, Ben Wishaw, bigot, Braveheart, Cloud Atlas, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Ed Elder, Elton John, Gay, homophobia, James D'Arcy, LGBTQ, love scene, MAGA, movie, Pride, Rocketman, Taran Egerton, Trump, Trumpian
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THE DAY I MURDERED MY HUSBAND – Tell-Tale Shoot Diary #3
Welcome back to the “Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” film shoot diary, and the day I murdered my husband. Repeatedly. Take after take after take. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” centers on a “very very dreadfully … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged assault, Austin Lepri, black and white, chamber piece, cinematography, Ed Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, eye, flashback, Jason Chua, movie, murder, musicabre, musical, Opera, pas a deux, set, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, vulture
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VERSAILLES – A Walk in the Park (and what a Park!)
A detailed guided tour through the baroque mythological splendors and eye popping and head scratching extravagance of the park of Versailles. The park grounds of Versailles are immense and splendid. Below a map of the whole park: Only the bottom … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Apollo, Apollo's Bath Grove, Bacchus, ballroom, Ceres, Chateau, Colonnade, cove, dragon, Ed Elder, Enceladus, Flora Fountain, Fountain, gardens, Girandole, Grand Canal, Hades, Hermitage, King's Garden, Latona, Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, Mirror Fountain, mythology, Neptune, Orangery, park, Parterre, Persephone, sensuality, statues, Sun King, Trianon, Versailles, water, Water Theatre Fountain
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EXITING ETERNITY’S GATE
Ed and I had just seen Julian Schnabel’s movie about Vincent Van Gogh, “At Eternity’s Gate”, and were exiting one of the more tucked away screening rooms at the Landmark 57 multiplex, which required walking down a long, narrow, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope
Tagged At Eternity's Gate, cinematography, corridor, death of Van Gogh, Ed Elder, exit, German, Landmark 57, light, Loving Vincent, movie, photography, sci fi, Van Gogh
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FALLING INTO JACKSON POLLOCK
This Sunday I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and found myself in front of their monumental Jackson Pollock “Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)”. And once again I had that hallucinogenic experience I often have in front of Jackson Pollock’s … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin'
Tagged acid trip, African American, art, Autumn Rhythm, Dream, drip painting, Ed Elder, hypnosis, Jackson Pollock, Jon Bunge, LSD, Met, Metropolitan, museum, photography, portrait
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FACES. REFLECTIONS. REFRACTIONS.
Some more expected and unexpected impressions at the Brooklyn Museum First, encounters with some singular faces. It’s hot and humid out, but she is eternally the embodiment of frigid winter.
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Tagged Americas, brooklyn, busts, Ed Elder, faces, glass, idols, museum, Painting, portrait, reflection, refraction, statue, transformation
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