Peabody Essex Museum - Salem MA

Explore the delightful realm of hats !

 

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At the

Peabody Essex

Museum

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wildly plumed bonnets, silk turbans, sequined caps, embroidered crowns, Sarah Jessica Parker's lime-green fascinator and 250 other elegant and sometimes outlandish styles. Displayed with the wit and whimsy of British milliner-to-the-stars Stephen Jones, Hats reveals the boundless creativity of hat design and our own fascination with wearing these indescribable works of art.

Using radical materials and designs that range from refined to whimsical, Stephen Jones's exquisitely crafted hats ignited a revival of British millinery in the early 1980s and reclaimed the hat's place as an essential article for fashionable people everywhere. Today Jones's edgy, compelling designs continue to attract stylish celebrities, including Gwen Stefani, Boy George, Kylie Minogue, Dita von Teese, and Madonna. Jones has also collaborated with a who's-who of legendary designers, including Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano for Dior, and Marc Jacobs.

We had a wonderful time !
Some Ahhhhaaahh moments,
Some laughs !
Great exhibit!
and of course
Lunch !!
We managed to find one of the nicest local restaurants to enjoy a leisurely afternoon.

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Michael 's Lunch

Linda's Lunch




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A fun day all around ! Catch you next time.

The exhibit Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones will be on view at PEM from September 8, 2012 to February 3, 2013.

 

The Museum of Art and Culture

In 1799, Salem's prominent merchants traveled the world in search of trade, beginning a legacy of cultural exchange that continues to this day.  America's first global entrepreneurs brought back extraordinary works of art and culture that formed the basis of the

 

Peabody Essex Museum. 

Today the museum's collection is among the finest of its kind, showcasing an unrivaled spectrum of New England art, architecture and maritime art in addition to outstanding Asian, Asian export, Native American, Oceanic and photography collections. 

True to the spirit of its past, the

Peabody Essex Museum

is dedicated to creating a museum experience that celebrates art and the world in which it was made.  By presenting art and culture in new ways, by linking past and present, and by embracing artistic and cultural achievements worldwide, the museum offers unique opportunities to explore a multilayered and interconnected world of creative expression.

ENJOY !

 

Sunday Concert Series at the GARDNER #3

A series of Classical concerts performed in ISG/Calderwood Hall

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It's 19 degrees with a wind factor of about 5 !  But it's worth bundling up and heading into ISG to enjoy another wonderful concert in the Sunday Series Program.

 

 

 Presenting

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Veit Hertenstein, Viola

Born in 1985 in Augsburg, Germany, Mr. Hertenstein began studying the violin and piano at the age of 5 and switched to the viola when he was 15. At the age of 19, he studied with Nicolas Corti, violist of the Amati Quartet at Zurich Hochschule der Künste.  In 2009 he earned an artist diploma at the Haut Ecole de Musique in Geneva working with violist Nobuko Imai and with Miguel da Silva, violist of the Ysaye Quartet.

He plays a 1701 David Tecchler viola. 

Violist Veit Hertenstein, First Prize Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, is one of the most captivating musicians on his instrument to emerge in years. Known for his exciting stage presence and virtuoso artistry.

Mr. Hertenstein has participated in the Marlboro Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Verbier Festival in 2009 and 2010, where he was awarded the “Henri Louis de la Grange” special viola prize. He has appeared at Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy in Switzerland in 2008, and has won numerous competitions such as the Pro Helvetia viola concerto commission, the New Talent Competition of the European Broadcasting Union (2009), the Tokyo International Viola Competition (2009), and the Orpheus Competition in Zurich (2007). His performances have been broadcast throughout Europe, and he has recorded for Euro-Classics. Mr. Hertenstein will make his New York debut at Merkin Hall and his Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater this season.

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Pei-Yao Wang, Piano

Born in Taipei, Pei-Yao Wang was the youngest pianist ever to receive the overall First Prize in the Taiwan National Piano Competition, at the age of eight. Four years later, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with Seymour Lipkin and Institute Director Gary Graffman. She then studied with Claude Frank at Yale University, where she received the Master of Music degree. She currently resides in New York City, where for several years she was the only student of Richard Goode.

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Pei-Yao Wang made her official orchestral début with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra at the age of eight and has since performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In chamber music she has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Orion, Chicago, Mendelssohn and Miro quartets, and has performed with other distinguished artists such as Claude Frank, Hilary Hahn, David Shifrin, and Mitsuko Uchida. She is also regularly invited to perform at festivals including Marlboro, Caramoor, Norfolk, La Jolla, Ravinia, and Bridgehampton in New York. She is currently a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, a programme to promote emerging young artists.

 

Performing Selections from:

Schumann, Sonata in A minor

Prokofiev, Selections from Romeo and Juliet

Rota, Intermezzo for Viola and Piano

Shostakovich, Preludes Op.34

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BRAVO !~



Calderwood Hall..... what's the big deal.

Calderwood Hall, designed by Renzo Piano and Yasuhisa Toyota, is built into a cube 44 feet on a side. Two rows of audience surround the musicians on the floor. The rest of the seating is in three tiers of four-sided balconies – each only one row deep. Seating capacity is approximately 300

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The musicians are on the floor, and the audience surrounds them, as close as is practically possible.

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The design of the Calderwood is unusual for our time, but it is not historically unprecedented. Most chamber music was written for performance in small spaces – holding at most a few hundred people, and richly supplied with sound absorbing furniture and fabric.

In the Calderwood the goal was to make the sound for each audience member as uniform as possible, giving each both a sonic and visual unobstructed view of the performance. When BMInt visited in December the reverberation time was quite low – about half a second. It is not obvious why the room was so absorptive. The visual walls are made of decorative plywood cut with linear slits. Eighteen inches behind the slits there is a structural wall, with absorptive curtains in the space between the visual and the structural wall.

So – how does the new hall sound?

Short answer:

it sounds....

 Fantastic!

Calderwood represents a bold break with current fashion in chamber music hall design. It portends an acoustic much closer to the kind expected by the great composers of the Baroque and Classical periods – strong, balanced, and exceptionally clear.

That's the BIG DEAL !

I look forward to hearing many different types of concert there.

Sunday Concert Series at the GARDNER ...#2



Calderwood Hall-Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum



 

 

 

 

January 20, 2013

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world.

Along with other constituents such as the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Music Society has its home at Lincoln Center, in Alice Tully Hall. Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, it draws more people to chamber music than any other organization of its kind.

 

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Sean Lee, violin

Selected from nearly 300 international participants, violinist Sean Lee was recently awarded the 2nd Prize of the 2008 Young Concert Artists, Inc. International Auditions. Also the winner of 3rd Prize at the 52nd “Premio Paganini” International Violin Competition in 2008, Lee has been performing throughout the United States as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. 

Lee holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City, and is continuing his studies at the Juilliard School for a Master of Music Degree as a recipient of the Dorothy Delay Scholarship and Dorothy Starling Scholarship. He currently studies with the internationally acclaimed Itzhak Perlman, and has studied in the past with renowned violin professor Robert Lipsett and legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci. Lee has been a student of The Perlman Music Program since 2003.

Lee performs on a 1728 Antonius Stradivarius,

 on loan from The Juilliard School.

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Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin

Nicolas Dautricourt is one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation.  Nicolas Dautricourt,  is appreciated for his « sensitivity and passionate manner » he is particularly fond of chamber music and keenly interested in jazz.

Finalist and prize-winner of numerous international violin competitions, such as the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznan, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade, the Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia and the Gian-Battista Viotti in Vercelli Competitions, Mr. Dautricourt has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gérard Poulet and Jean Mouillère among others, and became in 2007 artistic director of « Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy».

He currently plays a magnificent instrument by Sanctus Seraphin (Venice, 1735), on loan from the association Zilber

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ViolaViolist Hsin-Yun Huang,

recognized as one of the leading violists of her generation, came to international prominence in 1993 when she was winner of the top prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. In 1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man. These and other honors have propelled a career as soloist and chamber musician on stages of major concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East.

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Ms. Huang has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk, and Menahem Pressler, to name a few. Recent collaborations include performances with the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Brentano, and the St. Lawrence String Quartets.

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Hsin-Yun Huang came to England from her native Taiwan at the age of fourteen to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with David Takeno. She continued her studies at the Curtis Institute with Michael Tree, and at the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes. Currently residing in New York City, she is a dedicated teacher, serving on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Mannes College of Music and has given master classes at Guildhall School in London, the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, the McDuffie Center for the Strings the Taipei Normal University, and East Carolina University.

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Daniel Phillips, Viola

 Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and teacher. He is a founding member of the 25 year old Orion String Quartet, which is in residence at Mannes College of Music and is a longtime Artist of the Chamber Music Society  Mr. Phillips began violin studies with his father, Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he studied with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. He is a professor at the Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music and Bard College Conservatory. 

Mr. Phillips plays on the  Antonius Stradivarius (1702) now known as the "Phillips" Stradivarius, and a violin made for him by Samuel Zygmuntowicz (1993)

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Nicholas Canellakis, Cello …. Nicholas Canellakis has established himself as one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, performing throughout the United States and Europe to critical acclaim. In The New York Times his playing was praised as "impassioned" and "soulful," with "the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis rich, alluring tone.….”

“…Since winning his first concerto competition at the age of 11, Mr. Canellakis has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and has been the recipient of many honors, including First prize in the Musicatri International Competition in Italy and a top prize in the Johansen International Competition in Washington D.C….”

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Today's Program
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Beethoven, Trio in C Minor for Violin, Viola, & Cello, Op 9.
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Martinu, Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola

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Mozart, Quintet in G Minor for Two Violins,

Two Violas, & Cello.

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Arriving at the Gardner Museum early we were able to enjoy a short tour of this incredible palace before taking our seats for  the #2 concert in a series of many ! 
The musicians performed magnificently!
Such wonderful artists making for a fantastic musical experience !

Sunday Concert Series at the GARDNER...#1

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January 13, 2013

Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Part 1

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Sonata in D Major, Op 12 no

Sonata in A Major, Op 12 no. 2

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op no. 12

Sonata in A Minor, Op 23

 

 About the Artists:

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*  Corey Cerovsek  *

Corey Cerovsek, (violin)

has performed to constant acclaim...

His North American performances have included those with the orchestras of Boston,

Philadelphia,

San Francisco,

Detroit,

Mantreal,

Vancouver,

Toronto,

among many others.

  Internationally with such groups as the:

 Israel Philharmonic,

Iceland Symphony,

Prague Symphony,

 Ireland,

Australia,

Denmark,

                                France,

                                Japan,

                                China.

Milanolla Stradivarius -1728

Born in 1972 in Vancouver, Canada, and now residing in Paris, Cerovsek began playing the violin at the age of five.  After early studies with Charmain Gadd and Gichard Goldner he graduated at age 12 from University of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music with gold medal for the highest marks in strings.  That same year, he was accepted by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled at Indiana University, where he received bachelor's degrees in mathematics and music at age 15, masters in both at 16 and completed his doctoral course work in mathematics and music at age 18.   Corey Cerovsek performs on the "Milanollo" Stradivarius of 1728, an instrument played, among others, by Christian Ferras, Giovanni Battista Viotte, and Nicolo` Paganini. Upon receiving this jewel of an instrument, Mr. Cerovsek commented: " Playing the "Milanollo, was like going from black and white into colour",  "A whole new universe opened up. This Stradivarius is so noble, with a sound that's almost smoky. It doesn't come out and hit you in the face, but curls around and comes at you from behind giving a wide range of possibilities. It has a wonderfully rich G string, an enveloping sound which sounds good even at the back of a concert hall."

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*  Paavali Jumppanen  *

 Paavali Jumppanen, (piano) 

born in 1974 in Espo, Finland, began to play the piano at the age of five at the Espoo Music Institute .  He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.  From 1997-2000 he worked with Krystian Zimmerman at the Music Academy of Basel in Switzerland, where he was awarded the Soloist Diploma with the highest possible awards.  In addition to the Viennese Classical and Romantic repertoire, Mr. Jumppanen frequently programs the classics of the avant-garde as well as contemporary works, and regularly commissions works from the Finnish composers.   Winner of First Prize in Finland's national Maj Lind Competition in Helsinki at the age of nineteen, Mr. Jumppanen has since performed as soloist with all of Finland's orchestras, and he frequently appears with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Jumppanen's  New York debut in 2001 garnered reviews of "fresh and exciting" playing and "immense power and as extraordinary range of colors."Mr. Jumppanen has since toured extensively in the U.S.  Mr. Jumppanen spent the 2011-2012 season in residence at the Harvard University in Cambridge conduction a research project for the Piano Sonatas book.

Paavali Jumppanen, Piano - InstantEncore

ENJOY

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My good friend Pat and I enjoyed a Sunday afternoon in Boston at 
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum-Calderwood Hall. Currently presenting a Sunday concert series that can't be beet !

What a wonderful time we had wandering through the museum prior to the long awaited Beethoven Violin Sonata concert. 

Taking our seats, we enjoyed the pre-excitement jitters as the performers came on stage.
Calderwood Hall, the newest of concert halls in Boston is SUPERB!

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*** FOREVER FREE ***

Founded in 1791, the
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
is one of the nation's preeminent
independent research libraries.
  

 

Its collections contain millions of rare manuscripts and artifacts that provide a vibrant record of the entire course of
American history. 

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 Through its resources, publications and programs, the MHS strives to enhance the understanding of our nation's past and its connection to the present.

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When news arrived in Boston on New Year's Day 1863 that Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, long-planned celebrations, the largest anywhere in the United States, already were underway.

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MHS Librarian Peter Drummey and Curator of Art Anne Bentley explained how this epochal event in American History became an extraordinary moment in Boston history, and how the

pen Lincoln used to sign the proclamation

became one of the most treasured artifacts

 in the MHS collection.

 

Forever Free features the pen Abraham Lincoln used to sigh the Emancipation Proclamation. Visitors can learn how the MHS acquired this extraordinary pen as well as view paintings, broadsides, engravings, and manuscripts that tell the story of how Boston celebrated Emancipation.

 

 

Lincoln signed the proclamation during the Civil War, freeing all slaves in states then in rebellion.  The proclamation also provided a legal framework for the emancipation of millions of other slaves as the Union armies advanced. 

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Forty-eight copies were subsequently printed, with Lincoln signing all of them.  The president donated them to the so-called Sanitary Commission, a precursor of the modern Red Cross that sold the documents privately to provide medical care to Union soldiers.

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A century later, President Lyndon Johnson invoked the proclamation while presenting the Voting Rights Act to Congress.  He said equality was still an unfulfilled promise for black Americans.

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A total of nine proclamation copies have been sold publicly in the past 40 years.  A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold at a New Your auction for more than $2 million.

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In 2010, Robert Kennedy's family auctioned his copy for $3.8 million at Sotheby's. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968, had purchased if for $9,500 in 1964, when he was

U.S. attorney general.

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Only about half of the 48 proclamation copies have survived.

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On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

 

"I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing the right thing I do in signing this paper." 

 

 

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