CRYSTAL BRIDGES and Vivaldi’s Sounds of Spring
Welcome spring at Crystal Bridges and celebrate the opening of the William S. Paley collection with a live performance of
Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring” on the water.
“The Paley Collection provides a rare opportunity to….view the masters of European Modernism who inspired many American artists, both those studying abroad and those working at home in the US.” (Quoted from CB website). Likewise Vivaldi’s works inspire artists and musicians abroad and in the US
Because of Vivaldi’s pioneering innovative contributions to “program music” (evoking images--painting pictures with musical sounds), his works remain especially relevant to those who love visual art.
The Vivaldi “Spring” was revolutionary at it’s conception and remains, centuries later, a textbook example of memorable sound painting. The visual elements evoked by the strings in the “Spring” concerto is remarkable: snow melting into bubbling brooks, birds singing, dogs barking, dark clouds moving in to bring a sudden rain shower complete with thunder and lighting, then the reappearance of sunshine and the soft breezes of a day in spring.
Vivaldi’s “Spring” is the most recorded classical work in the history of music. Many consider it to be the world’s most recognizable classical tune, which is probably why it is used on more movie/TV soundtracks and commercials than any other. In addition, Vivaldi's “Gloria” is believed to be the world’s most often performed choral/orchestra work surpassing Handel’s “Messiah.”
This is an astonishing revelation considering the fact Vivaldi’s works were believed to be lost. His music was not available in Europe or the U.S. until the 1950s.
Each Vivaldi evening Miles Fish will discuss Vivaldi and his works
Each evening Fish's discussions will be followed by live performances
ABOUT the performers for the two evenings
ABOUT the Guest Lecturer (competet short-bio is posted at the bottom of this webpage)
Since 2002 Miles Fish, NWACC music professor, has spent his summers in (mostly) Italy researching and studying Antonio Vivaldi's music and the composer's elusive history. Two of Fish’s books involving Vivaldi have been published by Apple's iTunes (one photo journal and one historical fiction, his third book "DODICI" photographs twelve summers of life in Italy).
At the Italian National Library in Turin (est. 1720) Fish has the distinction of being one of the first Americans to gain unlimited access to Vivaldi’s handwritten music manuscripts and one of the first researcher to photograph the manuscripts.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's photos of Vivaldi's hand written music manuscripts Italian National Library, Turin (2010-13).
For three summers he was allowed access to historical clippings and documents at the Accademia Chigiana Library in Siena.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's historical clippings/docs from the Accademia Chigiana, Siena Italy (2010-12)
(NOTE: if you go to Google Images and type in "Vivaldi manuscripts Turin Italy" many of the M.Fish photos will display.) He will share some of these photographs at the Crystal Bridges Vivaldi event.
This is Fish's second series to host at Crystal Bridges. In the fall he hosted a sellout six night series on American Music.
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CLICK HERE to email Miles Fish
Phone or Text Miles Fish: 479.366.3331
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ABOUT The Two Vivaldi Programs at Crystal Bridges
1.
MARCH 19th: The LIFE and TIMES of Antonio Vivaldi
--The world’s first internationally artist superstar who was forgotten for two and a half centuries
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Vivaldi's Instrumental Music
2.
MARCH 21: The Miraculous 20th Century Vivaldi Discovery
Vivaldi: the 250 Year Old Overnight Sensation
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Vivalid's Vocal Music
NOTE: American poet Ezra Pound, who was living in Italy at the time, was instrumental in the pre-WWII rediscovery of Vivaldi. Pound published an article comparing composer Antonio Vivaldi in Venice to artist Joan Miro in Paris. Interesting footnote considering the fact that Miro will be represented in the Paley Collection: So on March 19th Miro and Vivaldi finally meet...at Crystal Bridges.
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Below are a few examples of the Crystal Bridges/Bentonville--Vivaldi/Venice connection.
(Click on a number below the photo to view)
1. "Robert Lewis Stephenson and Wife," John Singer Sargent painting at Crystal Bridges
2. "Capri" (Italy) John Singer Sargent painting at Crystal Bridges
3. Artist John Singer Sargent in Venice (“Street in Venice”)
4. Sargent’s painting of the church in Venice where Vivaldi’s sacred works were performed (church is next door to the school
where Vivaldi taught for 30 years)
5. Sargent’s painting of the St. Marks’ Basin / Grand Canal view from Vivaldi’s church
6. Alexander Calder at Crystal Bridges
7. Peggy Guggenheim installs Alexander Calder
8. Alexander Calder sculpture on the dock of Peggy Guggenheim’s Venice Villa
Welcome spring at Crystal Bridges and celebrate the opening of the William S. Paley collection with a live performance of
Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring” on the water.
“The Paley Collection provides a rare opportunity to….view the masters of European Modernism who inspired many American artists, both those studying abroad and those working at home in the US.” (Quoted from CB website). Likewise Vivaldi’s works inspire artists and musicians abroad and in the US
Because of Vivaldi’s pioneering innovative contributions to “program music” (evoking images--painting pictures with musical sounds), his works remain especially relevant to those who love visual art.
The Vivaldi “Spring” was revolutionary at it’s conception and remains, centuries later, a textbook example of memorable sound painting. The visual elements evoked by the strings in the “Spring” concerto is remarkable: snow melting into bubbling brooks, birds singing, dogs barking, dark clouds moving in to bring a sudden rain shower complete with thunder and lighting, then the reappearance of sunshine and the soft breezes of a day in spring.
Vivaldi’s “Spring” is the most recorded classical work in the history of music. Many consider it to be the world’s most recognizable classical tune, which is probably why it is used on more movie/TV soundtracks and commercials than any other. In addition, Vivaldi's “Gloria” is believed to be the world’s most often performed choral/orchestra work surpassing Handel’s “Messiah.”
This is an astonishing revelation considering the fact Vivaldi’s works were believed to be lost. His music was not available in Europe or the U.S. until the 1950s.
Each Vivaldi evening Miles Fish will discuss Vivaldi and his works
- March 19th will focus on the life and times of Antonio Vivaldi the world’s first international superstar who was forgotten for two and a half centuries.
- March 21st will focus on the miraculous discovery (Turin) and “re-premiere” performance of his works (Siena) at the outbreak of World War II.
Each evening Fish's discussions will be followed by live performances
- March 19th Vivaldi’s instrumental music will be featured
- March 21st Vivaldi’s vocal music will be featured
ABOUT the performers for the two evenings
- Antonella Gozzoli, soprano visiting from Tuscany (sings Vivaldi arias)
- Ben Harris (Fayetteville Jazz Collective performs the Vivaldi “Guitar Concerto”)
- NWACC String Ensemble performs both evenings (Myron Flippin, conductor)
- Tobiah Murphy, (UMKC Conservatory of Music) guest violinist soloist for “Spring”
- NWACC Chamber Singers (sing selections from the “Gloria")
ABOUT the Guest Lecturer (competet short-bio is posted at the bottom of this webpage)
Since 2002 Miles Fish, NWACC music professor, has spent his summers in (mostly) Italy researching and studying Antonio Vivaldi's music and the composer's elusive history. Two of Fish’s books involving Vivaldi have been published by Apple's iTunes (one photo journal and one historical fiction, his third book "DODICI" photographs twelve summers of life in Italy).
At the Italian National Library in Turin (est. 1720) Fish has the distinction of being one of the first Americans to gain unlimited access to Vivaldi’s handwritten music manuscripts and one of the first researcher to photograph the manuscripts.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's photos of Vivaldi's hand written music manuscripts Italian National Library, Turin (2010-13).
For three summers he was allowed access to historical clippings and documents at the Accademia Chigiana Library in Siena.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's historical clippings/docs from the Accademia Chigiana, Siena Italy (2010-12)
(NOTE: if you go to Google Images and type in "Vivaldi manuscripts Turin Italy" many of the M.Fish photos will display.) He will share some of these photographs at the Crystal Bridges Vivaldi event.
This is Fish's second series to host at Crystal Bridges. In the fall he hosted a sellout six night series on American Music.
_________________________________________
CLICK HERE to email Miles Fish
Phone or Text Miles Fish: 479.366.3331
_________________________________________
ABOUT The Two Vivaldi Programs at Crystal Bridges
1.
MARCH 19th: The LIFE and TIMES of Antonio Vivaldi
--The world’s first internationally artist superstar who was forgotten for two and a half centuries
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Vivaldi's Instrumental Music
2.
MARCH 21: The Miraculous 20th Century Vivaldi Discovery
Vivaldi: the 250 Year Old Overnight Sensation
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Vivalid's Vocal Music
NOTE: American poet Ezra Pound, who was living in Italy at the time, was instrumental in the pre-WWII rediscovery of Vivaldi. Pound published an article comparing composer Antonio Vivaldi in Venice to artist Joan Miro in Paris. Interesting footnote considering the fact that Miro will be represented in the Paley Collection: So on March 19th Miro and Vivaldi finally meet...at Crystal Bridges.
_____________________________________________________
Below are a few examples of the Crystal Bridges/Bentonville--Vivaldi/Venice connection.
(Click on a number below the photo to view)
1. "Robert Lewis Stephenson and Wife," John Singer Sargent painting at Crystal Bridges
2. "Capri" (Italy) John Singer Sargent painting at Crystal Bridges
3. Artist John Singer Sargent in Venice (“Street in Venice”)
4. Sargent’s painting of the church in Venice where Vivaldi’s sacred works were performed (church is next door to the school
where Vivaldi taught for 30 years)
5. Sargent’s painting of the St. Marks’ Basin / Grand Canal view from Vivaldi’s church
6. Alexander Calder at Crystal Bridges
7. Peggy Guggenheim installs Alexander Calder
8. Alexander Calder sculpture on the dock of Peggy Guggenheim’s Venice Villa
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BELOW
Performer Photos and Bios for Vivaldi's SOS at Crystal Bridges March 19 and March 21, 2014
BELOW
Performer Photos and Bios for Vivaldi's SOS at Crystal Bridges March 19 and March 21, 2014
ANTONELLA GOZZOLI was born in Milan and moved to Siena, Tuscany, when she was a child. She received her undergraduate degree in Ancient Literature from the University of Siena. She then attended the Conservatory of Music of Florence for post graduate studies where she received a degree in vocal music and a degree in vocal chamber music. Following the Conservatory studies she studied with Shirley Verrett and Victoria de Los Angeles at the Accademia Chigiana.
She made her opera debut in Florence as “Didone” in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and as “Text” in Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Other opera roles soon followed including a string of Verdi and Puccini masterpieces – Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Un ballo in Maschera, Tosca – the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
She has toured extensively, with several international companies and ensembles, as an oratorio soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass and Vesperes Solemmnes de Confessore, Haendel’s Messiah.
This will be Ms. Gozzoli's third visit to perform in Northwest Arkansas. Friday evening, March 21, at "Vivaldi's Sounds of Spring at Crystal Bridges" event she will sing Various Vivaldi arias accompanied by the NWACC String Ensemble. Thursday evening
March 20 at a NWACC recital, she will present a vocal program accompanied by Lyndon Meyer of Tula.
Antonella's husband is Dr. Francesco Muzii, a neurosurgeon practicing in Tuscany; he is also a lead faculty at the Medical School of the University of Siena (est. 1240). Antonella and Francesco have a one daughter, Flaminia.
For additional Antonella Gozzoli information contact
milesfish@mac.com
She made her opera debut in Florence as “Didone” in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and as “Text” in Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Other opera roles soon followed including a string of Verdi and Puccini masterpieces – Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Un ballo in Maschera, Tosca – the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
She has toured extensively, with several international companies and ensembles, as an oratorio soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass and Vesperes Solemmnes de Confessore, Haendel’s Messiah.
This will be Ms. Gozzoli's third visit to perform in Northwest Arkansas. Friday evening, March 21, at "Vivaldi's Sounds of Spring at Crystal Bridges" event she will sing Various Vivaldi arias accompanied by the NWACC String Ensemble. Thursday evening
March 20 at a NWACC recital, she will present a vocal program accompanied by Lyndon Meyer of Tula.
Antonella's husband is Dr. Francesco Muzii, a neurosurgeon practicing in Tuscany; he is also a lead faculty at the Medical School of the University of Siena (est. 1240). Antonella and Francesco have a one daughter, Flaminia.
For additional Antonella Gozzoli information contact
milesfish@mac.com
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BEN HARRIS is a familiar face (and sound) at Crystal Bridges where he performs both in small ensembles and the larger Fayetteville Jazz Collective. The Jazz Collective recently concertized at Crystal Bridges’ “Harlem Renaissance” event and last fall he performed several evening during the “American Music at Crystal Bridges” six-weeks series.
During the March Crystal Bridges “Vivaldi’s SOS (Sounds of Spring)” Mr. Harris will perform Vivaldi’s Guitar (lute) Concerto in D Major, RV93, with the NWACC Strings ensemble.
Ben Harris is well known throughout the area for his versatile expertise as a performer, a teacher and a music businessman. In addition to his involvement with The Fayetteville Jazz Collective (and other jazz groups, dance bands, rock bands, solo guitar gigs) he currently teaches at both the University of Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas Community College.
Harris manages his own music booking agency (Porter-Jones Entertainment), serves as the Director of Operations for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA), and often performs in the Walton Arts Center pit orchestra when touring B’Way shows are in town.
Mr. Harris, from Pine Bluff, grew up playing rock and roll, blues and folk guitar. He studied Classical guitar at Western Kentucky University. He holds a BA in Jazz Guitar and Composition from University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Masters of Music Composition from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Additional Ben Harris Information:
http://www.fayettevillejazzcollective.org/index.html
fjc@fayettevillejazzcollective.org
http://www.porterjones.com
During the March Crystal Bridges “Vivaldi’s SOS (Sounds of Spring)” Mr. Harris will perform Vivaldi’s Guitar (lute) Concerto in D Major, RV93, with the NWACC Strings ensemble.
Ben Harris is well known throughout the area for his versatile expertise as a performer, a teacher and a music businessman. In addition to his involvement with The Fayetteville Jazz Collective (and other jazz groups, dance bands, rock bands, solo guitar gigs) he currently teaches at both the University of Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas Community College.
Harris manages his own music booking agency (Porter-Jones Entertainment), serves as the Director of Operations for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA), and often performs in the Walton Arts Center pit orchestra when touring B’Way shows are in town.
Mr. Harris, from Pine Bluff, grew up playing rock and roll, blues and folk guitar. He studied Classical guitar at Western Kentucky University. He holds a BA in Jazz Guitar and Composition from University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Masters of Music Composition from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Additional Ben Harris Information:
http://www.fayettevillejazzcollective.org/index.html
fjc@fayettevillejazzcollective.org
http://www.porterjones.com
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“Vivaldi’s Sounds of Spring” is Miles Fish’s second series that marks a collaboration between NWACC music department and Crystal Bridges; in the fall he hosted a sold out six session “America’s Music at Crystal Bridges” series sponsored by NWACC, The National Endowment for Humanities and The Tribeca Film Festival (NYC) .
Fish, Professor of Music at Northwest Arkansas Community College, teaches and conducts the NWACC Chamber Singers. He holds a BA in Journalism and a BA in Music Performance from the University of Arkansas and a MMA in Conducting from University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly NLU). He also studied at Perkins at SMU Dallas for three summer sessions and attended summer school for three years at the Accademia Chigiana Music Conservatory, Siena (Italy)—the conservatory where Vivaldi’s rediscovered works were first performed in 1938.
For the past 14 years Fish has spent his summers in Europe (mostly Italy) working, studying and researching Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 he received an NWACC sabbatical award to continue his Vivaldi work. Fish has published three books (available at Apple’s iTunes); two of his books are concerned with Vivaldi and the third photographs a dozen summers of living in Italy. Vivaldi research has also taken him to Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam and most notably to Dresden's Sachsisch Landesbibliothek (library) which houses the largest collection of Vivaldi's manuscripts outside of Turin (It) . He often host small group private summer tours to Tuscany.
At the Italian National Library in Turin (est. 1720) Fish has the distinction of being one of the first Americans to gain unlimited access to Vivaldi’s handwritten music manuscripts and one of the first researcher to photograph the manuscripts. CLICK HERE: sample MFish's photos of Vivaldi's hand written music manuscripts Italian National Library, Turin (2010-13). For three summers he was allowed access to historical clippings and documents at the Accademia Chigiana Library in Siena.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's historical clippings/docs from the Accademia Chigiana, Siena Italy (2010-2012)
Fish was founder of the Civic Symphony of Benton County and conductor/ music director from 2000-2008. He was also a founder/conductor of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-2010). He served as a church music director for more than 38 years; 18 of those years at the First United Methodist Church of Bentonville.
Several of his musical plays have been produced including “The Long Way Home” which won “The Best Unpublished Play (1991)” at Oak Ridge Playhouse (TN). “The Long Way Home” was also produced by The Weekend Theater (Little Rock), Dumas Community Theater, UofA Monticello Upward Bound summer program, NWACC Summer Theater and Bentonville High School. His children's Christmas play "Three Little Kings" has been produced 23 times in Arkansas and surrounding states. Fish has written freelance articles for publications including The Lincoln Ledger, The Pine Bluff Daily News, World Tennis Magazine, Tennis Magazine and The City Wire (NWA). He was editor of his college literary Magazine.
Fish, NWACC and Crystal Bridges are considering another collaboration for Fall 2014: “America’s Music Part 2.”
Additional Miles Fish Information
www.MilesFish.com
www.nwaccChamberSingers.org
MilesFish@mac.com
mFish@nwacc.edu
www.TenDaysInTuscany.com
Phone/Text: 479.366.3331
BOOKS by Miles Fish:
"Recapitulating Vivaldi" (historical fiction; FREE iBook at Apple iTunes)
"DODICI--Twelve Italian Summers" (photographs of summers in Italy; FREE iBook at Apple iTunes)
"Looking for Vivaldi" (photos of Vivaldi's Cities--NWACC Sabbatical; available at Apple iTunes)
Fish, Professor of Music at Northwest Arkansas Community College, teaches and conducts the NWACC Chamber Singers. He holds a BA in Journalism and a BA in Music Performance from the University of Arkansas and a MMA in Conducting from University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly NLU). He also studied at Perkins at SMU Dallas for three summer sessions and attended summer school for three years at the Accademia Chigiana Music Conservatory, Siena (Italy)—the conservatory where Vivaldi’s rediscovered works were first performed in 1938.
For the past 14 years Fish has spent his summers in Europe (mostly Italy) working, studying and researching Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 he received an NWACC sabbatical award to continue his Vivaldi work. Fish has published three books (available at Apple’s iTunes); two of his books are concerned with Vivaldi and the third photographs a dozen summers of living in Italy. Vivaldi research has also taken him to Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam and most notably to Dresden's Sachsisch Landesbibliothek (library) which houses the largest collection of Vivaldi's manuscripts outside of Turin (It) . He often host small group private summer tours to Tuscany.
At the Italian National Library in Turin (est. 1720) Fish has the distinction of being one of the first Americans to gain unlimited access to Vivaldi’s handwritten music manuscripts and one of the first researcher to photograph the manuscripts. CLICK HERE: sample MFish's photos of Vivaldi's hand written music manuscripts Italian National Library, Turin (2010-13). For three summers he was allowed access to historical clippings and documents at the Accademia Chigiana Library in Siena.
CLICK HERE: sample MFish's historical clippings/docs from the Accademia Chigiana, Siena Italy (2010-2012)
Fish was founder of the Civic Symphony of Benton County and conductor/ music director from 2000-2008. He was also a founder/conductor of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-2010). He served as a church music director for more than 38 years; 18 of those years at the First United Methodist Church of Bentonville.
Several of his musical plays have been produced including “The Long Way Home” which won “The Best Unpublished Play (1991)” at Oak Ridge Playhouse (TN). “The Long Way Home” was also produced by The Weekend Theater (Little Rock), Dumas Community Theater, UofA Monticello Upward Bound summer program, NWACC Summer Theater and Bentonville High School. His children's Christmas play "Three Little Kings" has been produced 23 times in Arkansas and surrounding states. Fish has written freelance articles for publications including The Lincoln Ledger, The Pine Bluff Daily News, World Tennis Magazine, Tennis Magazine and The City Wire (NWA). He was editor of his college literary Magazine.
Fish, NWACC and Crystal Bridges are considering another collaboration for Fall 2014: “America’s Music Part 2.”
Additional Miles Fish Information
www.MilesFish.com
www.nwaccChamberSingers.org
MilesFish@mac.com
mFish@nwacc.edu
www.TenDaysInTuscany.com
Phone/Text: 479.366.3331
BOOKS by Miles Fish:
"Recapitulating Vivaldi" (historical fiction; FREE iBook at Apple iTunes)
"DODICI--Twelve Italian Summers" (photographs of summers in Italy; FREE iBook at Apple iTunes)
"Looking for Vivaldi" (photos of Vivaldi's Cities--NWACC Sabbatical; available at Apple iTunes)
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NOTE: More bios and pics of Vivaldi at Crystal Bridges will be posted below as they are received.
NOTE: More bios and pics of Vivaldi at Crystal Bridges will be posted below as they are received.