{"id":1080,"date":"2005-04-23T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/04\/big_apple_portraits_part_2\/"},"modified":"2005-04-23T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T17:52:42","slug":"big_apple_portraits_part_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/04\/big_apple_portraits_part_2.html","title":{"rendered":"BIG APPLE PORTRAITS, PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/A>Since I’m away, my staff of thousands has come up with a
\nbrilliant idea to amuse you and me together: Videos by the composer Bill Osborne, which he
\nmade on the fly while he was in New York not long ago. He thinks of them as improvised Big
\nApple portraits, which he’s edited to fit selected musical scores. All told, they add up to something
\nlike an essay. The first was posted Friday. Here’s the second: “Chrysler Building.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
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Put on your headphones, click the photo or the title, and enjoy. Give it time to load. The
\nmusic, by Maurice Ravel, is “Melodies hebraiques: no 2, L’enigme eternelle,” performed by
\nCatherine Robbin (mezzo soprano) and Andr\u00e9 Laplante (piano), with Nora Shulman (flute);
\nCamille Watts (flute); Joaquin Valdepe\u00f1as (clarinet); David Bourque (clarinet); Mark Skzainetsky
\n(violin); Mi Hyon Kim (violin); Steven Dann (viola); Thomas Wiebe (cello). It’s
\nrecorded by the CBC Records\/Musica Viva label on the CD “Ravel: M\u00e9lodies”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (Cat. #: MVCD1128).<\/P>
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If you prefer the videos sequentially more or less as Osborne intended — the staff does —
\ninstead of backwards (per the usual top-down chronological order of posting), just click here
\nfrom top to bottom:<\/P>Part 1: “Times Square at Night.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
Part 2: “Chrysler Building.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
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Typically, Osborne takes a modest view of his efforts. “The videos themselves won’t sustain
\nmuch interest (especially given all of the video media that swamps our lives),” he messages, “but
\nthey might be a useful small addition or footnote to your usual blogging when you get back to it.”
\nThe staff begs to disagree. It believes his moody improvisations are more than just footnotes. (He
\nalso warns: “Many people won’t have
\nthe modem speed to watch them.” Aaarrgghh.)<\/FONT> <\/FONT>Coincidentally, the Chrysler
\nBuilding’s 75th anniversary is being celebrated this spring, and James Stevenson has an op-art birthday tribute<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in
\nthis morning’s New York Times.<\/B> It begins like so:
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