Remembering Ned Rorem on his birthday ๐
๐ท Man Ray, Paris, 1953
"He has the gift for letting poetry sing, and he knows the human voice โ the warmth and the timbres, and how to bring them out in exactly the right place."
- Joshua Barone
Ned Rorem by Horst P. Horst
"There are certain things I can't get the point of. Bagels, for instance. Why do people like them? I can't get the point of Berlioz. I can dislike a composer, while admitting what others see in him or her. But not Berlioz."
The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem was published in 1966. His boyfriend at the time, Joe Adamiak, was a graphic artist, & did the layout for the book. And took the cover photo as well, which Rorem calls "pretty good". amzn.to/2Tvwu5L
Ned Rorem in an incredibly cultured-looking group in the home of the Vicomtesse de Noailles, 1951. "She was a rather gifted writer & a very gifted painter, but like many of the rich undisciplined with pen and paintbrush. She was powerful & famous too, and launched me, sort of."
Here's another picture of Ned Rorem from Paris in 1953. Can't find a photo credit, even on the Ned Rorem website - nedrorem.net. I wonder if it might also be by Man Ray. A great shot, in any case.
Highly recommended: Ned Rorem, The Art of the Diary No. 1, @parisreview
"I am a composer who also writes, not a writer who also composes."
๐ท Jack Mitchell, 1992
Another classic photo of Ned Rorem by Jack Mitchell, with his close friend Gloria Vanderbilt, 1992
And, for #caturday, this shot of birthday boy Ned Rorem by Jack Mitchell, from 1983
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Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ๐๐ฏ
๐ท Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. ๐งต
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola ๐
๐ท Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur โ a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
๐ท Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial ๐๐ฏ
๐ท Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday ๐
๐ท Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
๐ท Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
๐ท Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread ๐งต
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
๐ท W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
๐ท Dennis Stock, 1959