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Tag Archives: New York
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, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
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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40 More Days of Outdoor Memories
Covid 19 Taketh Away, but these Photos Remindeth When Covid 19 started us sheltering at home, and I started posting daily photo reminders of lovely outdoor memories, I didn’t think I would be doing this for three months and counting. … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Amazon, Austria, beach, Brazil, Cherry blossoms, Covid 19, Germany, Lencois, nature, New York, Outdoor, Painted Hills, Pantanal, photography, rainforest, Rio, Spreewald, Stahnsdorf, sunset
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The TELL-TALE VEGAS / NYC / MOSCOW TRIFECTA that was – and then wasn’t
Thanks for Nothing, COVID 19 I was supposed to watch “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” in a Moscow movie theater today, in fact precisely while I’m typing this, “sheltering in place” this Saturday morning New York time, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Brandon Ruckdashel, Casablanca, coronavirus, Covid 19, Cyrillic alphabet, Days of the Dead, first grade, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Las Vegas, Moscow, musicabre, New York, NewFilmmakers NY, Opera, pandemic, Reels of the Dead, school closing, sheltering in place, The Tell-Tale Heart
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NEW YORK MOVIE AWARDS
The New York Movie Awards have given “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” the award for Best Actor and the runner up Honorable Mention Award for Original Score Also, this just in: “The Tell-Tale … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Awards, Best Actor, Honorable Mention, movie, New York, Original Score, The Tell-Tale Heart
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IMPEACHMENT EVE, NYC
A Photo/Video Diary. On the Eve of the Impeachment Vote in the House of Representatives, hundreds of thousands across the country are rallying to demand the Criminal in Chief be impeached and removed. I joined the thousands that rallied in … Continue reading
NEW YORK FILM AWARDS and more
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” wins New York Film Awards, plus more awards from Crown Wood, CARE, Oniros and DIFF and the London Independent Film Awards too The New York Film Awards announced today that “The … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged actor, audience, Awards, best, Bhutan, CARE, Crown Wood, Druk, Experimental, festival, film, Grand Jury, Honorable Mention, International, musicabre, Narrative, New York, Oniros, score, The Tell-Tale Heart
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TELL-TALE CELLO DOUBLES
In “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” the music is scored for three cellos. And Friday evening three cello players were sitting in my living room practicing their cello parts for the shoot. Because for key scenes, you won’t just … Continue reading
ARTS-A-POPPIN’
There’s a new category here at Notes from a Composer: Arts-a-Poppin’. (This category, like all the others, can be accessed on the right side of every site page, just below the tweet stream.) After posting a double bill of selections … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News
Tagged Arts-a-Poppin', Brazil, Hellzapoppin, memorial, New York, Notes from a Composer, Painting, photography, sculpture, Visual Arts
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HAIKU NEW YORK
The sky is paper Bleeding upward from the edge There are ink towers My brother will be There to meet me at the dock Has it been five years? Now there are seagulls Wheeling and diving … Continue reading
Posted in Chamber Works, Literary Lyricism
Tagged a cappella, Angels in America, Anita Hollander, Ellen McLaughlin, haiku, harbor, Immigration, Jeannie Im, Lovette George, music theater, New Dramatists, New York, Nicky Paraiso, Patrick Mellen, seagulls, Statue of Liberty, through-composed
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An Indecent Play of Light & Geometry on 56th and 8th
New York New York – Ol’ Blue Eyes I moved to New York City in 1986 yet sometimes I still enjoy it like a tourist. You know the old joke about telling the tourists from the New Yorkers by who … Continue reading
Impressions from ART NEW YORK (with “artsy” musical accompaniment)
Art New York was a huge showcase of artists at Manhattan’s Pier 55 this past weekend. Here are some photographic impressions from my visit (with the artist name given above their artwork). And to add a little musical fun, I … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On
Tagged Anke Eilergerhard, art, art garfunkel, Blue and Joy, Byung Jin Kim, Chul Hyan Ahm, Eline de Jonge, Enrique Gomez de Molina, Evita, Hanns Kotter, Isabelle van Zeijl, Jeff Robb, John Baldessari, Kate Bush, Kim Simonsson, Lady Gaga, Liechennay, Livia Marin, Mary Poppins, New York, Norah Jones, Peter Anton, Roberto Fabel, Rolling Stones, salvador dali, Seo Young-Deok, Seungmo Park, Sondheim, Streisand, Viola Frey, Wang Xiosong, Yuina Wad
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Catching HALLOWEEN around HALLOWEEN 1978 in a seedy New York theater
My father insists that the movie theater or rather many of the patrons in the theater were scarier than anything that was happening on the screen. Possibly. I was eleven and not world-weary enough to be wary of the pot-smoking … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On
Tagged 1978, American Forces Network, audience reaction, creature feature, Halloween, Hammer, Hitchcock, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Michael Myers, movie, New York, permissive parenting, Psycho, seedy, The Exorcist, theater, Universal
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Five Reasons to be GLEE-ful!
Ed and I watched every episode of Glee. We remained loyal throughout its wild upswings and downturns in popularity and storytelling. Being of a generation that grew up with few television shows of a musical nature to turn to, and … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On
Tagged Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith, Darren Chris, Glee, Jump, Lea Michele, LGBT, Mash-up, Naya Rivera, New York, Teenage Dream, transgender, Whitney Houston
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