Gustav Klimt – Danaë Pablo Picasso — Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Jacek Malczewski – Death of Ellenai Vardges Sureniants — Salome Lyonel Feininger — Der weiße Mann Ivan Grohar — The Sower Félix Vallotton – Andromède debout et Persée Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis – Sonata of the Sun Robert Delaunay — Paysage au disque Gustaf Fjæstad — …
That Fatal Sneeze The Red Spectre Tunneling the Channel The Policemen’s Little Run The Golden Beetle The Dancing Pig The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon The Race For The Sausage Ride through Victoria and Vancouver, Canada Laughing Gas Premier Prix de violoncelle / First Prize for Cello The Lion Hunt Ben-Hur
“This time James and Sean take a trip back to the 80s – the 1880s that is. Aside from the original music we have celebrity appearances from Arthur Sullivan, Johannes Brahms, William Ewart Gladstone and Queen Victoria herself (possibly) – plus some very drunk old Englishmen (not us)”
Centuries of Sound’s radio show on Cambridge 105 is now available for listening at your convenience. Rather than simply present a mix of sounds from the year, here I discuss their recording and the world they were made in with my co-host Sean. This is our first ever show (sort of) so thanks for your …
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Not even close to being the first sound film, and not particularly advanced technologically (being simply a mime to a pre-recorded disc), it’s still something of a marvel to see this performance 20 years before ‘The Jazz Singer’ and a few years before even silent shorts started coming out of Hollywood. Three minutes of your …
An odd book, but not one I’m particularly fond of, The Wind in The Willows is a mix of Edwardian rapture at frolicking in the splendors of nature, the high-church volksgeist mysticism that was in vogue at the time and classic anthropomorphic children’s moral tales. It does sort of hang together, and there are many …
I’ve always used the terms “album” and “LP” interchangeably, so it came as a surprise to find out that the former predates the latter quite considerably. We started talking about albums in the sense of ‘photo album’ or ‘stamp album’ as early as the 1850s, and the first ‘music albums’ were along these lines – …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack This week has seen the passing of Geoff Emerick, who served as sound engineer on The Beatles’ Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, starting at the age of just 20. His death hasn’t generated as much interest as those of George …
January 6 — The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome March – The 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths April 17 — The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering …
Pablo Picasso – Self-Portrait with Palette Henri Matisse – Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary Edvard Munch – Self-portrait with a bottle André Derain – Charing Cross Bridge Claude Monet — Water Lilies Jean Metzinger – La dance (Bacchante) Robert Delaunay — L’homme à la tulipe Mikhail …
