Elliott Schwartz in ONLY CONNECT
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November 19, 2011
Peter Sheppard Skaerved introduces the characters and themes behind this ground-breaking exhibition. [in preparation...] Click on the highlighted names for more links…. Samuel Cartwright & Niccolo Paganini Angelica Catalani Leigh Hunt Charles Burney Maria Cosway & Jefferson T S Eliot & Patrick Heron Landseer & Niccolo Paganini Brunel & Mendelssohn Charles Mathews & Eliza Vestris [...]
Elliott Schwartz ‘Jefferson – Soliloquy and Remembrance’ (August 2011 Premiere & November 2011 Film))
September 21, 2011
Elliott Schwartz-Jefferson Cadenza-Soliloquy and Remembrance Violin-Peter Sheppard Skaerved Filmed by Colin Still (Optic Nerve) in Peter Sheppard Skaerved’s ‘Only Connnect’ exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery November 2011 From Elliot Schwartz: The piece is a two-movement work for solo violin, called “Jefferson Cadenza: Soliloquy and Remembrance,” and it was completed this summer. It’s intended [...]
Only Connect, Concert 2 3-6-2011
June 3, 2011
REPORTING Back Only Connect (Concert 2) Friday June 3rd 630 pm National Portrait Gallery Peter Sheppard Skærved – Violins (Antonio Stradivari 1698 ‘Joachim’ & Richard Duke ca. 1750) The concert was designed to reflect the interchange between German, Italian, and British culture in the 19th century. The choice of violins for the [...]
Three Stravinsky/Dushkin Transcriptions – Live in Pristina 2006
May 26, 2011
PPS- Violin (W E Hill 1900), Aaron Shorr (very live, and a little mad…) Stravinsky-Tango – Chanson Russe- Danses Russes ONLY CONNECT LINK RE Musica Festival Pristina 2006
Responding to ONLY CONNECT
May 22, 2011
The Opening event of ONLY CONNECT took place on Friday 13th May. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin/Speaker Kreutzer Quartet plus trumpeters from the Royal Academy of Music As the project unfolds-I will post material coming from vistiors, audience members and anyone who wants to comment on ONLY CONNECT through the website. The linking of [...]
Jean Jacques Rousseau and music
April 11, 2011
Children of Nature Ancient Air-Tr. Pierre Baillot (Workshop recording-Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698) ‘Ranz des Vaches’-Arr. by Pierre Baillot from J J Rousseau ‘Dictionnaire de Musique’ ‘Ranz des Vaches’-Giovanni Battista Viotti Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari ‘Betts’ Library of Congress, May 9th 2009 Air à Trois Notes-J J Rousseau (Transcribed Pierre Baillot) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698 (Workshop Recording [...]
Hanging Only Connect
April 8, 2011
April 12th Work continues. 14th April 2011 Light on the connections Friday Morning 8-4-11 Joachim and HG Wells wait Michelle Greaves with Eliza Vestris
Angelica Catalani
March 8, 2011
Angelica Catalani LISTEN: Paganini writes down one of Catalani’s ‘roulades’ in concert 18th June 1823: Catalani/transcribed Paganini-’Allegro Moderato’ Click on Higlighted words to follow Links Catalani’s career and notoriety was extraordinarily long. Initially inspired by the new instrumental virtuosi of the post revolutionary generation, she, in turn, was imitated by them two decades later. Leigh [...]
Niccolò Paganini
March 8, 2011
Niccolò Paganini Click on SEGRETO Click on CAPRICES Live On the 13th May 1831, the young singer and pianist, John Orlando Parry wrote in his Journal, ‘Remarks on things in general’: /“That wonder of wonders, viz “Paganni” , arrived in the Country! He does the most inconceivable things on the Violin-He is going to [...]
November 24, 2011