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DECEMBER 2007
Grand Canyon |
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The Grand Canyon – one of the seven wonders of the world. It was very cold here with the snow and winds!. |
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OCTOBER 2007
St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| Just in front of the beautiful bay waters of St. Petersburg, Florida where the big yachts dock, just out front of the splendid Vinoy Hotel where one can be treated like royalty. I was treated like a queen for my entire visit! Heartfelt thanks to my superb hosts. |
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| Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| October, 2007 – Organist Richard Elliott performs on the famous Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle for the lunchtime crowd. |
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| Richard was ever so kind in giving me a special backstage tour of all the organs on Temple Square, including the newest addition to their family of instruments, the 130-rank Schoenstein & Co. It is quite something looking at a 32' Diaphone! The Convention Center holds 22,000 people and can fit a Boeing 747 on stage. |
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The beautiful Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake is where I performed recently. It is a visually awesome space and with the 6 second acoustic, makes it a wonderful space to perform on the mechanical action Kenneth Jones organ. |
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| Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| Grand Rapids, Michigan is former home to President Gerald Ford. The Museum, which houses many of his memorabilia, has these distinctive door handles. |
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Just outside the Museum is this replicated spaceman made of steel or some other material reflecting Neil Armstrong's surname. |
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AUGUST 2007
Stratford Music Festival – Ontario, Canada |
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| August 2007 – While a guest artist for the Stratford Summer Music Festival as the first woman
organist featured as part of the prestigious event, I had the occastion to
attend a military tattoo and Lloyd Robertson was anchoring the event. Pictured are he and I! While living in Canada I grew up watching late night Canadian news with him as the news anchor, so it was a thrill meeting this great Canadian icon. As Chief News Anchor and Senior News Editor of CTV News, Lloyd Robertson is the leader of the country's most-watched newscast, CTV News With Lloyd Robertson. An accomplished newsman, Robertson joined CTV in 1976 and has been broadcasting for more than 50 years. Beloved by Canadians, Robertson was voted Canada's most trusted news anchor by TV Guide readers 11 years in a row, and Canada's favourite news anchor by readers of TV Times, the Toronto Sun and NOW Magazine. |
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| United Kingdom |
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August 27th, 2007 – The Cathedral Church of St. John Tour Choir – all packed and ready to go back home. (Yours truly at the camera lens!)
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August 26th, 2007 – Just before our final Evensong Service at Canterbury Cathedral – strike a pose! |
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August 24th, 2007 – Just some of the beautiful flowers blooming at the Sissinghurst Gardens, Kent, not to mention the neat little doorways leading from one garden into the next. |
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| August 9th, 2007 – Visit to Stonehenge-a perfect day in English weather. |
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APRIL 16, 2007
San Francisco |
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| The calla lilies on Alcatraz Island, with a view across San Francisco Bay to Sausalito. |
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Riding on the Powell-Mason cable car. |
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| The organ console at Grace Cathedral setup for my practice. |
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| MARCH 2007 |
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| St. Petersburg Bay. |
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Dolphins are easily seen roaming around the Bay of St. Petersburg. |
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| The Vinoy Hotel — built in 1925 and magnificently restored . A splendid hotel for a late night dessert and drink! |
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| JANUARY 2007 |
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| The moguls near the White Feather run at the Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. |
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Even the snow is decorative and artistic in New Mexico! |
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| AUTUMN 2006 |
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| Along the Rio Grande River, Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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AUGUST 2006
Along the Pembrokeshire Coastline in West Wales |
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MAY 21, 2006
New York City |
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| Dr. Maxine Thévenot with Iain Quinn, following her graduation from The Manhattan School of Music. |
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Dr. Jeffrey Langford, Assistant Dean of Doctoral Studies, and Dr. Maxine Thévenot following the graduation ceremony. |
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| The ceremony took place at Riverside Church, New York City. Maxine was awarded the Bronson Ragan award. Mr. Ragan was a highly-respected teacher of theory, orchestration and organ at The Juilliard School and The Manhattan School of Music in the 1960s. |
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APRIL 2006
New York City |
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Springtime in Central Park
April 2006 |
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Macy's Annual Flower Show—Beehive of flowers complete with mechanical bees encircling the arrangement.
April 2006 |
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Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth-century. His "inner necessity" to express his emotional perceptions led to the development of an abstract style of painting that was based on the non-representational properties of color and form. Kandinsky's compositions were the culmination of his efforts to create a "pure painting" that would provide the same emotional power as a musical composition. "The term "Composition" can imply a metaphor with music. Kandinsky was fascinated by music's emotional power. Because music expresses itself through sound and time, it allows the listener a freedom of imagination, interpretation, and emotional response that is not based on the literal or the descriptive, but rather on the abstract quality that painting, still dependent on representing the visible world, could not provide. This photo was taken at MoMa.
April 2006 |
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