Saturday, September 8, 2007

George Petty Christmas




I began to photograph in the summer of my sixteen years with a Minolta underwater yellow sunflowers and the surprise of an age which provided upsets. The first shots daring, against the backdrop of a beach that smelled of pizza heated and cherry ice cream, depict the faces of friends that the storm season is late summer wore on. Random shots of those precious smiles in salted first moments of freedom. Then came the time of the SLR, an Olympus used the 1974, companion travel to European capitals and eager young lover of portraits and backlighting. I brought along the canals of Amsterdam, in the cold windy morning of Copenhagen, the land of Vikings and bold blue eyes. I followed her to parties, including paper cups and slices of cake left in half. He captured the trills of a silver trumpet played outdoors and the chiaroscuro of the keyboard of a grand piano. E 'Up in the mountains, down the valleys of a summer that reflected in lakes in the company of fishermen from the food that smelled of brandy drunk at four in the morning. He stopped the antics of a boy who has no voice and those pants that put a paw in the disco, fields of sunflowers, past loves and belly naked pregnant friend and the first breeze.

Thanks to photography I met my mother, daughter, met the frightened face of my grandmother in wedding dress and found the old two-seater car that drove my father when I still had not this life. On the images taken and I wanted to cry. Smile and relived. Although I have framed some moves, other fire ripped though a right.

's night. Browse the past shots of a strange meeting in Tuscany. Before me the familiar faces of a single meeting.

the former is a poet. The bony face and graceful. He has handsome features and a heart child. In the other, a red-haired prince searches the hill thinking of hunters in search of pheasants. Then again, the poet, smokes and hides the fatigue of a sleepless night. Here, a photographer with a beard and glasses looking for his shot and edited a fairy-eyed woman smiled thinking about it already found. In the other, a young girl's hair seem to be moving in the wind. Somebody let slip Roman accent on the nose a pair of dark glasses. Someone else seems to hide behind his glasses sudden migraine. Two men look at each other accomplices. Here again the poet who attempts a dip in the pool. In this other guy with a green jersey smiles and does not believe to be photogenic. Then, the sinuous profile of a girl who reflects the watchful eyes of two women face similar. And yet the poet who embraces a girl than forty years and an overview of the sunset over the olive grove.

We are all more beautiful when the light fades , think. I look at and respect. A spiral of faces that are followed imprisons and holds all my imagination and the silence of the night is passing is diluted with the first hints of dawn sleepy, sly.

"The Photographs can reach eternity through the moment, "said Cartier-Bresson, capturing the minute while peering from the viewfinder of an old Leica. Perhaps it is this eternity I'm looking for, still awake at this time.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Custom X O Custom Normale

Cerquetti INTEGRALE



VINCENZO BELLINI: NORMA


Anita Cerquetti Renato Gavarini · Fedora Barbieri ° Giuseppe Modesti
Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples
Matio Rossi Anita Cerquetti of Franco Corelli · Miriam Pirazzini ° Giulio Blacks · Gianella ° Piero Borelli Palma
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Gabriele Santini
Miriam Pirazzini ° Giulio Blacks · Gianella ° Piero Borelli Palma
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Gabriele Santini
Paul Washington · Valiano christmas · Augusto Frati · Lidia Toncelli Caravita · ° Carlo Maria Lorenzo Bertlini · Texts
Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Carlo Maria Giulini
Luigi Cherubini: THE ABENCERRAGI



Anita Cerquetti · Lois Roney · Alvino Misciano · Mario Petri · Aurelian Neagu ° Paolo Washington · Valiano christmas · Augusto Frati · Lidia Toncelli Caravita · ° Carlo Maria Lorenzo Bertlini · Texts
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Carlo Maria Giulini
Lidia Toncelli Caravita · ° Carlo Maria Lorenzo Bertlini · Texts
Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Carlo Maria Giulini
° Giuseppe Modesti · Lucia Danieli · Mario Frosini ° Alberto Lotti Camici
Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Emidio Tieri Franca Sacchi · Cesare Siepi · · Mario del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini · · Giorgio Giorgetti · Athos Cesarini · Help Pasek · Edio Peruzzi Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: GUGLIELMO TELL






Anita Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Cerquetti · ° Gianni Yahya ° Giuseppe Modesti · Ivan Sardi · Jolanda Mancini · Giannella Borelli Pirino ° Antonio ° Sergio Nicolai ° Enrico Ciampi · Tommaso Solely ° Sergio Liliana
Choir and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano RAI Mario Rossi Borelli Pirino ° Antonio ° Sergio Nicolai ° Enrico Ciampi · Tommaso Solely ° Sergio Liliana Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of RAI Milan
Mario Rossi ROSSINI: MOSES



Anita Cerquetti ° Nicola Rossi-Lemeni · Agostino Lazzari ° Giuseppe Taddei ° Gianni Yahya · Thomas Frascatti · Pliny Clab · Anna Maria Rota · Rosanna Cartieri ° FERRUCCIO Mazzoli
Choir and Orchestra of the RAI
Tullio Serafin RAI
Tullio Serafin Clab · Anna Maria Rota · Rosanna Cartieri ° FERRUCCIO Mazzoli
Choir and Orchestra of the RAI
Tullio Serafin San Carlo di Napoli Gabriele Santini 24.09.1958

GIUSEPPE VERDI: AIDA






Anita Cerquetti · Flaviano Labo · Neil Rankin · Terms Treigle · Fernando Corena · Cornell MacNeil
Chorus and Orchestra of the Palace of Fine Arts Antonio Narducci Emidio Tieri Florence Liliana Poli ° Enzo Guagni ° Paolo Rena Gary falacia
· Washington Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Antonino Votto Cerquetti ° Angelo Lo Forese · Cesare Siepi · Fedora Barbieri, Ettore Bastianini · ° Giulio Blacks · Liliana Poli ° Enzo Guagni ° Paolo Rena Gary falacia · Washington Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Antonino Votto

GIUSEPPE VERDI: Ernani





Anita Cerquetti · · Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Boris Christoff · Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dimitri Mitropoulos
· · Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Boris Christoff ·
Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dimitri Mitropoulos Anita Cerquetti ° Piero Miranda Ferraro · Giulietta Simionato ° Aldo Protti · Boris Christoff Renato Capecchi ° Antonio Vera Presti Massaria · · Adelio Zagonara · Eraldo Coda Renzo Gonzales
Orchestra and Chorus of RAI
Nino Sanzogno Rome Bellas Artes
Antonio Maducci




GIUSEPPE VERDI: Il trovatore

Anita Cerquetti · Carlos Bergonzi · Jean Madeira · Giangiacomo Guelfi · Giuseppe Modesti
Chorus and Orchestra of the Palace of Fine Arts
Rocco Guadagno

GIUSEPPE VERDI: The Sicilian Vespers




Anita Cerquetti ° Carlo Tagliabue ° Giulio Ferrein · Mario Nettle · Myths rigged Peace · Boris Christoff · Tommaso Solely · Santa Andreoli · Christiano Dalamangas ° Walter Artola
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Turin RAI Mario Rossi ° Walter Artola Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of RAI Turin Mario Rossi ° Giulio Ferrein · Mario Nettle · Myths rigged Peace · Boris Christoff · Tommaso Solely · Santa Andreoli · Christiano Dalamangas ° Walter Artola
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of RAI Turin
Mario Rossi

CARL MARIA VON WEBER: OBERON




Anita Cerquetti · Mirto Picchi · Petre Munteanu ° Piero de handheld Miram Pirazzini
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of RAI Milan Vittorio Gui Anita Cerquetti · Mirto Picchi · Petre Munteanu · Piero de Palma · Miram Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica Pirazzini di Milano della RAI
Vittorio Gui completely deleted, as against a lack of ability to think helps in this context, no prosecution.

If the rule. Today is the exception.

On 02 September 2006 at 08:44:10 Clock I received to my post cerquetti INTEGRALE by a person unknown to me until now - a certain Pierre Ceccaldi - following "comment":


"I find quite a scandal you use others' work for your blog. Almost ALL your records covers were stolen from the site I manage for Mme Cerquetti Cerquetti and that I made for her and some friends. Please, correct all this or we shall warn justice. "
I do not have proof of identification or at least an email address of the accused enjoys, it is important first to take this opportunity objectively answered as follows:
The charge of theft and / or plagiarism is not correct and I as these back with determination and demand at the same time the author of this allegation - Pierre Ceccaldi - hereby, to avoid this false declaration with immediate effect. In the event of infringement, I announce precautionary action to.

the extent that the required legal intervention.


I return now rather back to the real purpose of my blog ... This makes perfect in themselves and in small and unimportant text of the accused has now so many curiosities that I can not help him at this point - and exact, for this reason - to devote some further comments ...


01 creating the the blog CERQUETTISSIMA seemed to me - particularly in relation to my other blogs - as a necessity. The need is justified by the risk that the discographical heritage of the soprano Anita Cerquetti threatens to be forgotten, and the maneuverability is precisely this quasi minimalist attempt to awaken to this heritage, at least for one or the other blog visitor interest. An act for the purposes of the "remembrance" and the critical discussion - and not the devotionalisierten rapture. Affirmative junk collection is not my thing.

02 The real Background: In two German standard works - by Jurgen Kesting and Jens Malte Fischer - on the great singers of the XX. Century: Anita Cerquetti is virtually no mention of one word (for Kesting only within a ranking).
03
The critical assessment of the artistic legacy of this extraordinary soprano is at the heart of all (future) contributions. A recourse to biographical facts and data will only ever made music-analytical and historical perspective. The privacy of the bourgeois Anita Cerquetti person left out.


04
find on my blog, three links to Anita Cerquetti. The link "Anita Cerquetti [1]" leads directly to the site Anita Cerquetti. " Not clear is whether this is an "official" or "unofficial" website.

05 The local "credits" include only the workforce Bob Rideout (USA), Geoffrey S. Riggs (USA), Armando Bona (USA), Todd Wolkoff (USA), Jaume Tribo (Spain), Felipe Cunha (Brazil ) on. "Copyright, documents and web design: Belza.org (France). © 1996 -. 2005 "In Belza.org concerns according to my information a "Cabinet de communication multi-media. Internet, photo, PAO. "A responsible for the content of legal person is not shown.

06 The name of the - keep Grace - mistakenly accuse echauffierten found ... anywhere. Having resulted in the assertion "... the website I manage for Mme Cerquetti Cerquetti and that I made for her and some friends"
only allows the conclusion that the accused employee or owner of the Belza.org is. As this remains unproven, despite research, is unauthorized by law the accused is unknown, and thus in relation to the site.


07
Another site Anita Cerquetti "I am not (yet) known.


08 What worship frenzy one might come too: a website is by nature a global issue and just any private fetish act more - or better: the direct or indirect Exhibitionierung any - not fictional - Information, etc. for each site constitutive. This applies equally to the website Anita Cerquetti "like on this blog» CERQUETTISSIMA. " Since we and any work of art no longer "... in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Benjamin) live, but in the long time = virtual space economistic raffles Entities around trot is a - on the work of individual artists - focused work of memory, at least one
possibility of action.
09 sources published on this page cover illustrations: his own and other private collections, music archives, libraries, bookshops, internet etc.


10
The copyright for this cover is

solely by the companies, these recordings have published. So the labels such as Andromeda, Decca (Universal), Living Stage, Myto Records, Valhalla, etc.

11 Since my blog and only proven non-commercial Intentioned, this form of release from the companies without transferring rights is accepted, since they regard nature as a free promotional material such dissemination.

12 The published short discography of some more or has been commercially available recordings will now really is not an original - and thus protected by copyright - plant capacity dar. That the discographies of the website and blogs are largely the same: what a surprise ? - We have not even 20 full shots.

13
In stark contrast to the accused is also a very important goal of my publications, to point to the very existence of the recordings by Anita Cerquetti. And there may please download any visitor to its hard drive and / or distribute what he wants. by even a single person should first deal with the singing Anita Cerquettis: it would have been truly worthwhile.


14
I am confident that the leading figure in the well deserving website Anita Cerquetti "a moderating influence on Mr Ceccaldi be.
on Cerquetti Web site that the following sentence: Anita Cerquetti's discography is most of all> non official '. So, you find one of her records when, get it immediatly. "

D'accord!
ABSALOM






Friday, August 17, 2007

Tech Deck Element Shop Pt

PICTURES UNDER A MANTLE OF STARS JUST MARRIED


My Summer in Rome continues.

I buried the sadness in a foreign land, and between photographs and uncertain steps on the ancient cobblestones, I enjoy the leave from the stresses of everyday life jamming and a new freedom that smells like coffee in a large cup of barley.

E 'evening in Trastevere. The few remaining Roman in the city to the streets with smiles and tan mixed voices of ice cream and cold beer. The kidnapped tourists wander by so much beauty, sip drops of wonder and express desires that they know sweet life and starlings screaming. A woman with white hair pushes air into the bellows of an accordion and two girls are told by bicycle tires deflated by rolling pieces of life with the happiness of young girls in the back of a first date. I

pizzeria to celebrate the birthday of a princess exotic.

The Remains of the town passes my shoulders, kneading the shuffling of sandals and sneakers to the fluttering of seagulls in flight. A feeling is spreading among the menu items and takes jovial man's grizzled face and chubby sits in front of me. He, by the Neapolitan comic actor and innate shoulder of one of the few men of the show I've ever really loved , is sitting at a table in the company of exuberant youth.

E 'Lello Arena.

The sad eyes of those who are too busy to heal the spirits of others and that gleam that shines on the faces of celebrities and draws stares and amazement of onlookers.

I watch him. He does not see me.

Who is it? What to do with my life? Basically I do not know, but I would like to talk to him.

not I never felt much enthusiasm for the famous. In Bologna, I have seen many. Cesare Cremonini Biagio Antonacci.

I met Gianni Morandi in the house, Franca Valeri bus. I walked alongside Samuele Bersani towards university classrooms. Ayrton Senna romped through the underpass at the Grand Prix in Imola. I turned down a dinner invitation from Nelson Piquet and was in the pub with Alberto Tomba. I spoke with Neffa and Luca Carboni, Claudio Santamaria and Katia Ricciarelli.

I met Roberto Benigni at the Thai Milano Marittima, Nicoletta Braschi in a popular restaurant in Bologna, Eros Ramazzotti early in his career and Vasco Rossi in a bar in the Via Emilia. I returned the wink of Alessandro Haber front of the theater, the greeting of Patrizio Roversi cycling. I risked investing Jean Alesi with a Samba red one April morning and danced with Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, with flared trousers and a long necklace of red stones.

Lello Arena is still at his table. Now look at him in the eye and smile. I'm excited to see him. Is it because he still lingers near the grimace Massimo Troisi. Or because it's about theater, music, actors. Or because I've never been to Naples, but tonight it's like Naples and its one thousand culure had come to me.