Pierre du Prey
Professor Emeritus & Director of ACT
Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
pduprey@queensu.ca
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
ACT – Architecture in the Classical Tradition
On 26 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
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My good friend, colleague and inspired teacher’s work. Pierre was one of the presenters at our Monuments and Memory conference here at GPRC a couple of years ago.
It is a pleasure to personally welcome you to my web site, Architecture in the Classical Tradition. I invite you to use it, to enjoy it, and to send me your impressions. My purpose in creating this web site starting in 1996 was to share with you my reflections based on over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve our built environment.
Ospedale della Pieta
Another documentary from the Beeb this one deals with Vivaldi’s creative relationship with the girls of the Ospedale della Pietà for whom he composed so much music.
Musicologists often blithely ignore the fact that Vivaldi wrote a lot of his music specifically for all woman and girl orchestras and choirs. I’ve never understood why this should be so difficult to grasp but apparently it is.
Vivaldi: Gloria (RV 589) – Domine fili unigenite – YouTube
Oh to be back in Venice. This is the church associated with the organization that runs the hostel where we have stayed many times. Last year we got a private tour of the church and were up in the spaces behind the screens where the girls sang from.Fantastic acoustics, I can only dream about how amazing it must sound with the girls.
Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi (“Vivaldi’s Women”) is an all-female ensemble of singers and players which aims to recreate the sound of Vivaldi’s Figlie di Choro, those foundlings at Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà who performed at Mass and Vespers from behind grilles in the high choir galleries or “cantorie”. It reflects the age range and vocal range of Vivaldi’s musicians, with women aged 14 to 60+, some singing tenor and bass. The group uses period instruments played at 18th-century Venetian pitch (A˜440Hz).
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Packing
On 21 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
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wild rose party – Only in Alberta.
On 21 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
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Danielle Smith, leader of the Wildrose party, got a wild ride
Glenn Gould: Bach Goldberg Variations 1981 Studio Video complete
One of most sublime piano perfomances ever. period.
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun – YouTube
On 14 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
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The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. They met up at a small café near the Eiffel Tower to review their plans—again—before heading out into the dark. Lifting a grate from the street, they descended a ladder to a tunnel, an unlit concrete passageway carrying a cable off into the void. They followed the cable to its source: the basement of the ministry of telecommunications. Horizontal bars blocked their way, but the skinny teens all managed to wedge themselves through and ascend to the building’s ground floor. There they found three key rings in the security office and a logbook indicating that the guards were on their rounds.
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.