Memphis – Broadway on Demand Click here to rent His vision. Her voice. The birth of rock 'n' roll. The 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis delighted audiences at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre over some 1,200 performances. Set in the underground clubs of the segregated '50s, a young white DJ named Huey Calhoun (Chad Kimball was nominated for a Tony for this performance as was his co-star, Montego Glover), falls in love with everything he shouldn’t: rock and roll and an electrifying black singer. Memphis is an original story about the cultural revolution that erupted when his vision met her voice, and the music changed forever. It is loosely based on the true story of Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. Bursting off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a tale of fame and forbidden love, this emotional journey is filled with laughter and roof-raising rock ‘n’ roll. Almost everybody involved in this production either won, or was nominated for a Tony including the book writer, Joe DiPietro, composer David Bryan who composed both the music and lyrics, and the director, Christopher Ashley. The choreography, a main reason for the success of the show, is by Sergio Trujillo. In total, Memphis won four Tonys and was nominated for 15. The Broadway production was filmed during regularly scheduled performances in 2011 utilizing multiple high definition cameras and 96 tracks of sound recording. 5-day rental is $9.99 and After you start watching, you will have 120 hours to finish viewing the show. Astronomicum Caesorium Book - Met Click here to watch This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions. This riveting short video comes from the Met Museum in New York and tells not only what the book is but how to use it, employing King Henry V111’s birthday as an example. With its hand-colored illustrations, this splendid book is a feast for the eyes just to leaf through. But it was designed and marketed to meet a specific function: detailed instructions explained to privileged owners—amongst them Tudor King Henry VIII—on how to turn the paper dials according to dates and star signs, to create their own astrological charts and forecasts. Sixteenth-century royalty and scholars alike combined the desire for knowledge with the long-held belief that it could be gathered from the movement of the stars. From predicting one’s health to the weather and ideal moments of susceptibility—or conversely, obtuseness—the heavens provided meaning and guidance in an unstable world. The Astronomicum Caesareum was written by Petrus Apianus (1495–1552), and illustrated by Michael Ostendorfer (ca. 1490–1549), Ingolstadt, 1540. Gabriel Kahane - Magnificent Bird – Phillips Collection Click here to register In the fall of 2019, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane embarked on a year-long hiatus from the internet in order to better understand our increasingly fraught relationship to technology. His intimate and achingly vulnerable solo performance, Magnificent Bird, is the culmination not only of that experiment, but of years of inquiry into the impact of machines on the human spirit. By turns irreverent and elegiac, Kahane’s marriage of story and song guides us through his digital sabbatical, and the interlocking crises—a pandemic, global protests, natural disasters, and a contentious presidential election—which intersected with his return to analog life. In sum, Magnificent Bird is a rhapsodic, novelistic, and spellbinding cry from the heart: for all the wonders of the digital age, it is only the living who are capable of love. This event will be broadcast live from the Music Room of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC on Sunday, January 22 at 4 PM ET (9pm UK). You can register at the link for livestream tickets which are only $15. Ticket holders will be able to watch this performance “On Demand” for 48 hours following the broadcast time. The Poet – Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre Click here for tickets This modern dance piece explores life with Dementia (and Alzheimer's Disease) by combining dance, music, and film with Khalil Gibran’s poetry. The Poet focuses on the relationship between a father, John Welker, and his daughter, Rachel Van Buskirk, as he grapples with losing his memory. As his memory fades he struggles to hold on to what he knows through his poetry, revealing a life-affirming inner world that is both mysterious and beautiful. This unique piece was designed for film. The Poet was choreographed and co-directed by Tara Lee with cinematography from Guay and Cody Collins. The dancers of Terminus Modern Ballet explore the difficult topic of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease through the indefinable medium of dance. James van der Zee archive – Photographs of Black Life Click here to watch The Met has acquired an amazing archive of some 30,000 photographs which collectively represent the life’s work of the Harlem Renaissance photographer James van der Zee. These wonderful photographs give an unprecendented view of the riches of life in New York’s Harlem, beginning in 1910. Illuminating the collection is this conversation between Jeff L. Rosenheim, The Met’s Curator in Charge of Photographs, and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum. This is a landmark collaborative initiative to research, conserve, and provide full public access to the remarkable catalogue of photographs by James Van Der Zee (1886–1983). The world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, Van Der Zee was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. The archive will comprise approximately 20,000 prints made in his lifetime, 30,000 negatives, studio equipment, and ephemera. The James Van Der Zee Archive is the third archive of an American photographer to be acquired by The Met which also acquired the archives of the photographers, Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, in 1994 and 2007, respectively.
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AuthorRuth Leon is a writer and critic specialising in music and theatre. Archives
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