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Bumping into Family Connections, Paint & Music
John Marin, “Brooklyn Bridge”, 1912, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 15 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in., (39.37 cm x 46.99 cm) Gift of John Marin, Jr. and Norma B. Marin, Colby College Museum of Art...
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It is Time
Edith Vail Ross had spent most of 1902 and all of 1903 concentrating on her voice lessons and getting her start as a Vocalist in New York City. The art of networking, socializing and cultivating the...
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Snippets from Dish & Spoon, Cartoon Film, 1933
Leon Schlesinger Studios, Distributed by Warner Bros., September 1933, b&w 7 minute cartoon film I just love the cover design to this cartoon music which features the name of Paul Eisler in the...
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A Sunday Afternoon, Songs & Fresh Air, July 1903
At a July 1903 Sunday afternoon rehearsal with a mentor in Manhattan, Edith Vail Ross sang numerous songs for his critical review and assessment. She wrote home in a letter home to her parents in...
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Decorations on the Death of a Pope, 1903
St Patrick’s, NYC (Picture courtesy Library of Congress). http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2012/02/st-patricks-cathedral-stately-grace-in.html Pope Leo XIII, 1898, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-122745...
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O’Where, O’Where in the World Might the Photographs Be?
Somewhere in the world are dramatic photographs of a costumed Edith Vail Ross from the summer of 1903. From her descriptions to her parents it seems that at least 5 maybe 6 dramatic and costumed photo...
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Striking A Deal- Piano Lessons for a Portrait
Belgium Artist: Firmin Baes, 1899, “The Piano Lesson”, painting on canvas, http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/firmin-baes/the-piano-lesson-1899 Family history often reduces people into short summaries and...
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Children of Vienna; Leontyne Price sings, 1961
Another Christmas Spirit offering - Painting by child artist Bretl Hanus, a student of Franz Cizek, the Viennese founder of modern Art Education for youth. Listen to Leontyne Price sing “O, Holy...
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Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe in Music
Edgar Allan Poe, head-and-shoulders portrait,/ William Sartain. Creator(s): Sartain, William, 1843-1924, artist Date Created/Published: New York : Max Williams Company, c1896. Medium: 1 print :...
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Paul Eisler on Tour with Andreas Dippel, 1903
February 14, 1903 – Paul Eisler plays piano, on tour with German tenor Andreas Dippel Paul Eisler first arrived in the United States in 1902 according to the ship “Cuxhaven” manifest notes when he...
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