As of today, I have about 15 new compositions and Ron James has 2 tracks. These are all roughs, no trumpet, saxes etc… So pretty much stage one. Over time these playlists will be updated.

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The Violin Concerto of Tchaikovsky is the most incredible trumpet performance I have heard. 

Malcolm is one of the top LA studio musicians. He is also a fellow student of my teacher James Stamp. I never met Malcolm when studying with Jimmy, but Jimmy always mentioned him to me, as a point of reference.  I did meet Malcolm in 2000 when Steve Bartek invited me to the session for a movie called “Snow Day”. Malcolm was the only trumpet in a 75 piece orchestra. I enjoyed our conversation at the time, though I don’t remember much about it.

I actually don’t remember if he was a student of Jimmy or simply an associate.
But I do remember playing a duet with him, at one of my lessons, and Jimmy played the piano.
I was so young at the time, probably 17, that I didn’t even know who he was.
You learn a lot from such musical interaction.
He actually had a really great mouthpiece.

He was always kind and instructive to me, at a very young age.
I always appreciated that.
My heart goes out to his family, friends and students.

Online article

The site is currently being re-configure to use the Blip distribution.
The site originally was using the BrightCove channels, which will no longer be available.

BrightCove has decided to end it’s practice of free broadcast channels, so it’s time to move on.
Currently will be using a NING network, as a server, and will also have copies on-line via MySpace.com .

It’s taken a while to test and configure the new server. I tested out over 6 vendors, and decided it was best to take the “free” route for now.

While in process found a few extra videos I created lately, and will also post.

Here are a few created for the Granite museum

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Edward Hopper Vermont Sugar House

An Art Historian/writer called the other day and explained that they had discovered this, and wanted to take pictures.

Painting is called “Vermont Sugar House” saw that it sold in 2007 for over $800,000. Seems that he stayed at the original farm that this Sugar shack was a part of.

The view remains the same, and the original structure is actually the center of our house. Our studio is directly connected to one side, the other our living space.

Appears that he stayed on the property and also painted a number of other works, one in the Boston MFA called 1st Branch of the White River, is the view from the other side of our property, off our driveway entrance. Yikes this is all I need at the moment….. Appears that this is the only structure he painted in Vermont, rest of the pieces are Landscapes. The auction catalog, mentioned that the “The landscape Hopper saw, as an artist, It only exists in his paintings, nowhere else… that the actual view doesn’t matter..” Well, 70 years later the view still looks the same, maybe a few trees have changed, but he did capture what is here..  

First Branch White River

So several questions come to mind. Is this actually my reality, or a Hopper reality? Did I destroy a piece of art by building a house, not knowing a piece of art existed?

Probably the actual reality is, that the picture is worth more than the actual place. A place in time for one artist at one moment.

Think I would find living in a Miro painting much more interesting.

Links

Christies

Smithsonian American Art Museum

You can view the current projects in both the video browser below, or view individual tracks, and a few notes about each of the pieces and artists who participated.

All video tracks have been recently updated with better audio. A different codex was used for the processing and the results, combined with BrightCove’s Flash tools sounds better.

This site uses a wordpress blog system and is being tweaked when I have time. I have just currently added individual pages for the Ynot Project compositions, and will be making updates over time. Currently I am using a video presentation medium to post musical compositions.

Enjoy
Craig Pallett