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Friedrich Gulda - “What is This Thing Called Love?” (C. Porter)
with J. A. Rettenbacher (b) and Klauss Weiss (d)
from As You Like It (1970)Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930 -2000) was one of the 20th Century’s most colorful and controversial figures in classical music. One of a tiny number of top-flight artists to achieve and maintain true crossover status, he had won the Geneva International Piano Competition and made his Carnegie Hall debut by age 20; only six years later he was headlining the Newport Jazz Festival and performing at Birdland. Though largely ostracized by the Continental “establishment,” his devotees include students Martha Argerich, who has named him “my biggest influence,” and Claudio Abbado. 1970’s As You Like It is a trio effort centered on straightforward, lyrical interpretations of jazz standards—and featuring the pianist’s celebrated variations on The Doors’ “Light My Fire.”
(photo by VinothChandar)
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Marcin Sobas (Poland)
The Polish photographer Marcin Sobas has a body of work that speaks to a photography maxim: Nature is still the best subject. The endless cycle of birth, growth, death and rebirth; the arc of the sun and the moon in a 24 hour period; the play of clouds and fog as both filter and subject… Sobas benefits from his sense of timing and his appreciation for Nature as Subject, to capture the right light, the right fog and the right angle, and then, make some places look magical. (cf. artist interview by Chase Jarvis)
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