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Maryleen Schiltkamp
Maryleen Schiltkamp (1959) is a visual artist who was born on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and also grew up there. She studied graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Rietveld Academie (1977–1978) and classical fine art, painting and sculpting at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (1978–1981) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089 Besides in Amsterdam, Schiltkamp has lived and worked in New York City, Saint Petersburg and Prague.Ed McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdf Development The New York magazine Gallery & Studio once called her "one of our more historically aware contemporary artists, forging “connections between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Ingolfsson
Judith Ingolfsson (born in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an internationally known violinist. She plays a violin made by Lorenzo Guadagnini in 1750. Early life She began to play violin at age three, and debuted as a soloist in Germany already at age eight. She studied with Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music. She then studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein. Career Judith Ingolfsson won first prize at the 1998 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She was also a prize winner at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild Competition and the 1997 International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini". In 1999 she was honored by National Public Radio as Debut Artist of the Year, and in 2001 received the Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for her debut CD with works by Bloch, Ned Rorem, Rorem, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach, and Henryk Wieniawski, Wieniawski. In 2008 Judith became Professor of Violin at the Staatliche Hochschule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. His 1934 opera '' Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'' was initially a success but later condemned by the Soviet government, putting his career at risk. In 1948, his work was denounced under the Zhdanov Doctrine, with professional consequences lasting several years. Even after his censure was rescinded in 1956, performances of his music were occasionally subject to state interventions, as with his Thirteenth Symphony (1962). Nevertheless, Shostakovich was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death), as well as chairman of the RSFSR Union of Composers (1960–1968). Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSCH Motif
DSCH is a musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting of the notes ''D, E-flat, C, B natural'', or in German musical notation ''D, Es, C, H'' (pronounced as "De-Es-Ce-Ha"), thus standing for the composer's initials in German transliteration: ''D. Sch.'' (Dmitri Schostakowitsch). Usage By Shostakovich The motif occurs in many of his works, including: * Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 * Fugue No. 15 in D-flat major, Op. 87 (only once, in the stretto) * String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92 * Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 * String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 (Played all at once by the four instruments at the end of each movement) * String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (appears in every single movement) * Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135 * Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141. * Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 (questionable) By others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AkzoNobel
Akzo Nobel N.V., stylised as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational corporation, multinational company which creates paints and performance coatings for both industry and consumers worldwide. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 150 countries. AkzoNobel is the world's third-largest paint manufacturer by revenue after Sherwin-Williams and PPG Industries. History AkzoNobel has a long history of mergers and divestments. Parts of the current company can be traced back to 17th-century companies. History and formation of Akzo Akzo was formed in 1969 as merger of Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (General Artificial Silk Union; AKU) and Koninklijke Zout Organon (Royal Salt Organon; KZO). The AKU was formed in 1929 when the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (est. 1899) and Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek (ENKA, est. 1911) merged, forming Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (AKU). The latter faced, amongst others, technical problems in the manufacturing of synthetic fibers. Its fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organon & Co
The ''Organon'' (, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic. The name ''Organon'' was given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics, who maintained against the Stoics that Logic was "an instrument" of Philosophy. Aristotle never uses the title ''Organon'' to refer to his logical works. The book, according to M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire, was not called "Organon" before the 15th century, and the treatises were collected into one volume, as is supposed, about the time of Andronicus of Rhodes; and it was translated into Latin by Boethius about the 6th century. The six works of Organon are as follows: Constitution of the texts The order of the works is not chronological (which is now hard to determine) but was deliberately chosen by Theophrastus to constitute a well-structured system. Indeed, parts of them seem to be a scheme of a lecture on logic. The arrangement of the works was made by And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CowParade
CowParade is an international public art exhibit that has featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over the city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks. They often feature artwork and designs specific to local culture, as well as city life and other relevant themes. After the exhibition in the city, which may last many months, the statues are auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. There are a few variations of shape, but the three most common shapes of cow were created by Pascal Knapp, a Swiss-born sculptor who was commissioned to create the cows specifically for the CowParade series of events. Pascal Knapp owns the copyrights to the standing, lying, and grazing cow shapes used in the CowParade events. History The concept of "cow parade" has its origins in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1998 by artistic director Walter Knapp, it is based on an idea which was realis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wim Statius Muller
Wim Statius Muller (Curaçao, 26 January 1930 – Curaçao, 1 September 2019) was a Curaçaoan composer and pianist, nicknamed "Curaçao's Chopin" for his romantic piano style of composition.Curaçao’s Chopin a Expatcalidocious Retrieved 7 June 2013 While he was a Juilliard graduate, his musical career did not begin in earnest until after he retired from a career in security and counterintelligence. Career Statius Muller was born in 1930 on Curaçao, in Willemstad's Otrabanda district. He began piano lessons at age seven ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzwilliam Quartet
The Fitzwilliam Quartet or Fitzwilliam String Quartet (FSQ) is a British string quartet. The group was founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates. There have been a number of changes in personnel over the years, but Alan George from the original quartet is still a member as of 2019. It currently consists of Alan George, viola; Sally Pendlebury, violoncello; and Lucy Russell and Marcus Barcham Stevens, violins. The Fitzwilliam Quartet was one of the first of a long line of quartets to have emerged under the guidance of Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. They became well known through their close personal association with Dmitri Shostakovich, who befriended them following a visit to York to hear them play. He entrusted them with the Western premières of his last three quartets, and before long they had become the first group to perform and record all fifteen. These recordings gained international awards, and secured for the quartet a worldwide concert schedule an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Stoupel
Vladimir Stoupel (born 10 May 1962) is a Russian-born French pianist and Conductor (music), conductor. He began studying the piano at age of three with his mother, Rimma Bobritskaia. He made his debut at the age of twelve, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), First Piano Concerto in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He later studied piano with Yevgeny Malinin and conducting with Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Conservatory, and was a pupil of the Russian pianist Lazar Berman for almost five years. Stoupel was a top prizewinner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1986 and has performed as soloist with various major orchestras. His discography includes the complete works for piano solo of Arnold Schoenberg and of Alexander Scriabin (at the Piano en Valois Festival he played the entire cycle of Scriabin's sonatas in a single performance from memory). His recording of the complete works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps with violi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H'ART Museum
H'ART Museum is an art museum located on the banks of the Amstel river in Amsterdam. Formerly a satellite of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, Russia, the museum cut ties with the Hermitage after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. History The museum is housed in the former Amstelhof, a Classical architecture, classical style building from 1681. The building opened in 1682 as a retirement home for elderly women under the name Diaconie Oude Vrouwen Huys () on the east bank of the river Amstel. From 1817, the facility housed both elderly men and women, and was renamed Diaconie Oude Vrouwen- en Oude Mannenhuis, Mannenhuis (English: Deanery Home for Old Men and Women). The building was first named Amstelhof () in 1953. In the 1990s, operators of the facility decided that the building was inadequate to meet the modern needs of its residents and sought to build a new building elsewhere. They offered the historic building to the city of Amsterdam, who, in turn, leased it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
