Artist 🎻 Regina Carter

Artists
Who Resided at the Braender 

Regina Carter
Jazz Violinist

Oblivion - Regina Carter

Regina Carter, Borislav Strulev

Black Orpheus (Manha De Carnaval)

American jazz violinist Regina Carter plays the 'Il Cannone' violin owned by Italian composer Niccolo Paganini at a press conference, 03 November, 2003, in New York. Carter will play the 260 year-old violin, made by Italian Giuseppe Guarneri in 1743, at a concert, 03 November, at Lincoln Center in New York. 

Carter became the first jazz musician - and the first African American - to play the instrument when, as a gesture of solidarity after the 11September, 2001 terrorist attacks, she was invited to perform in Genoa, Italy

The title of this project is aptly-named. 

Regina Carter, a Detroit-born, classically-trained jazz violinist, traveled to Genoa, Italy in December, 2001, and performed on Paganini’s legendary Guarneri violin nicknamed “the Canon.”
After winning the hearts of the skeptical Italians, with armed gunmen surveying her every move, Carter played flawlessly, and became the first jazz musician and African-American to the play the instrument.
The next year, Carter returned to Genoa, recorded on Paginini’s violin and performed a pleasing program of crossover-friendly light classics, South American compositions, a movie tune, and original works.
Produced and arranged by Jorge Calandrelli and Ettore Strata, and backed by a combo led by pianist Werner “Vana” Gierig, the selections successfully show off Carter’s impeccable and soulful playing, and the violin’s rich and reverent tones.
An 18-piece orchestra supports Carter on Ravel’s “Pavane pour une infante defunte,” Piazzolla’s “Oblivion,” and Ennio Morrricone’s Cinema Paradiso theme. Borislav Strulev’s cello co-stars on Luiz Bonfa’s “Black Orpheus (Manha de Carnaval)” and Faure’s “Apres un reve.” For Debussy’s “Reverie,” Carter delivers some straight-ahead swing.

In sum: She came, she saw, she conquered and, she swung.

–Eugene Holley, Jr.

 Regina Carter
"When I Hear Your Name"

Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Producer, Performer, Recording Arranger: John Clayton
Vocals: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Piano: Xavier Davis
Upright Bass: Matthew Parrish
Drums: Alvester Garnett
Clarinet: Paquito D'Rivera
Accordion: Gil Goldstein

 Regina Carter - Oh, Lady Be Good
8/15/1998 - Newport Jazz Festival 

Regina Carter Quintet: The Jazz Violin

(Performance/Demonstration)

Regina Carter

"Simply Ella"

Award winning jazz violinist Regina Carter talks about her New album "Ella: Accentuate the Positive. " 

She performs this album live February 24, 2018 at North Central College in Naperville, IL. 

Black Orpheus
'Manha De Carnaval'
Regina Carter

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Regina+Carter

Regina Carter News

http://reginacarter.com

Regina Carter - Topic

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4KfCXYZqgkXhjuHionZ8Q

Artist🎨 Donald J Mulligan

Artists

Who Reside at the Braender

 
Donald Mulligan

Donald Mulligan grew up near Chicago, Illinois and settled in New York City after college, study and work in France and travels in Europe. He worked as graphic designer for Life magazine, art director on MD magazine and AD magazine before establishing his own design and illustration studio in 1982.

Don continues to paint and illustrate. His clients include Spanish and Greek tourist offices, The Wall Street Journal, Diversion magazine and Chase Bank. He has written, illustrated and published a series of 14 travel articles, the latest on the paradors of Spain.

Importantly, Don currently is an Adjunct Professor at FIT, where he teaches classes in creativity, advertising design and color.
Throughout his career Mulligan has developed and exhibited a variety of paintings, graphics and watercolors. 
Shows in New York include  Unicorn Gallery in SoHo and John O'Rourke on Madison Avenue.

Currently his Paintings on Wood can be seen at An American Craftsman Gallery at 52nd and 7th Avenue in New York City. A recent one man show was held at the Figureworks Gallery in Williamsburg , Brooklyn.

Don and his wife Jane Volpe, a watercolorist, hold semi annual Open studios in their Central Park West home.

Studio visits are welcome anytime.

Websites:  www.donmulligan.com
                       www.workbook.com
 
Client List: 

Wall Street Journal, Federal Express, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chocolatier Magazine, TV Guide, Spanish Tourist Office, Greek Tourist Office, Harcourt Brace, Diversion Magazine, Voyageur Magazine, South Street Seaport Museum, Villeroy and Boch, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Dow Chemical, SanFran Video, Pace Communications, Reader's Digest...

Home🎨 Woods 🎨 Paintings 🎨 Illustration 🎨 About

Donald Mulligan
🎨  http://www.donmulligan.com/about.htm

 

Artist 🎨 Gillian Jagger

Artists
Who Resided at the Braender

Gillian Jagger
Multimedia Sculptor and Installation Artist
1986

Gillian Jagger (born 1930, United Kingdom) is a multimedia sculptor and installation artist based in the Hudson Valley. She is known for her plaster castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City in the 1960s, during which time she was “erroneously being identified as a Pop artist.” In her work Jagger “[appropriates] materials from nature,” and incorporates tracings, rubbings, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.

Personal life

Gillian Jagger was born in the United Kingdom in 1930. Her father, sculptor Charles Sergeant Jagger, was known for his war memorials, most notably the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London. Jagger’s maternal grandmother was also a sculptor. After the death of her father Jagger’s mother remarried, when she was aged 7, to an American coal industrialist and the family relocated to Buffalo, New York.

The artist has worked and resided in a converted "five-barn" dairy farm in Kerhonkson, New York with her partner Consuelo (Connie) Mander since 1978.

Early career

In 1953 Jagger received her BFA in painting at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), where artist Andy Warhol was also an alumnus. Although Jagger and Warhol were contemporaries and “friends,” Jagger disaffiliated herself from the Pop Art movement associated with Warhol’s Factory. 

She writes: 

“…the worst for me was that I was identified on all those news programmes and newspapers as a Pop artist. I was certain that I wasn’t. I didn’t know much about Pop Art – but I knew I did not like beer cans or pieces of pie under plastic covers.”

Jagger later studied under Vaclav Vytlacil at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado; and completed further studies at the University of Buffalo, New York and Columbia University. She received a Masters of Art from New York University in 1960. In 1968 Jagger joined the faculty of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she taught for 40 years. She has also held teaching positions at New York University, Post University, and New Rochelle Academy.

Work

Gillian Jagger has worked in large-scale plaster, stone, cast cement, and sheet lead; as well as found biogenic substances such as animal carcasses and sections of fallen tree trunks. Often the artist casts readymade materials from nature, including her own body. “An interest in time, tracks, imprints and shadows has long dominated my work,” she writes.

In her early work Jagger cast automobile tracks, footprints, and various infrastructural elements of the urban built environment.

Her castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City attracted attention from local and national news media during the early 1960s. At the time Jagger was being misidentified as a Pop artist. She explains, however, that this epithet was “a distortion of what [she] was actually trying to achieve.” “That wasn’t what I was going for,” she said, “I was trying to make a statement about what would be here when we were all gone.” Jagger later said of the period: “I was casting facts because I couldn’t believe in the metaphors.”

HUDSON  ART  WALK, Columbia County, NEW YORK
http://clarehenry-artjournal.blogspot.com/2013/10/hudson-art-walk-columbia-county-new.html

Following Gillian

 

https://vimeo.com/71546097

Following Gillian from Whirlwind Creative, Inc. on Vimeo.

Casting Faith: A Portrait of Gillian Jagger
56 min  2011  NR
A film about Gillian Jagger by Barbara Gordon and Richard Schlesinger
Gillian Jagger, noted artist, Ulster County resident and juror of the “Recent Work” exhibit at WAAM, will be present at the screening of “Casting Faith” (a one-hour PBS documentary by Barbara Gordon and Richard Schlesinger). Jagger and Gordon will take part in a Q&A following the film.
Casting Faith follows Jagger through the woods on her property, where she finds both the mammoth trees and animal remains that become the material for her art. We see her work with this material discovering hidden vibrant structures – life among inevitable loss and decay. “Casting Faith” is about a woman immersed in a very private struggle with enormous social implications. It is a portrait of an artist working to define her art and its relation to her life and to the life of the society in which she lives.
Barbara Gordon, an artist and WAAM member, is also an award-winning filmmaker. Her documentary work has been broadcast on CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, The Discovery Channel and A&E and screened at The Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Schlesinger, a writer and filmmaker whose work has been published in major periodicals, has taught writing and literature at the City College of New York and Touro College in New York City.
https://waamblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/gillian-jagger-film-casting-faith/
This film explores Gillian Jagger's work, the relationship of that work to her life, and the role of art in society.
https://www.amazon.com/Casting-Faith-Portrait-Gillian-Jagger/dp/B004VXAAUM

Gillian Jagger
Jagger on a lifetime of art, philosophy and teaching
http://www.bluestonepress.net/stories/on-newsstands-gillian-jagger,20421

Gillian Jagger’s lead forms - marvels of raw, proliferating texture - hang like flayed carcasses or sit like creatures freshly mutated from the earth. Yet none of these metaphors are adequate to the horrendous physicality of Jagger’s sculptural objects. Speaking of the derivation of her work from natural surface, Jagger remarks: “All things in nature... resemble each other in their folding, tearing, cracking, wrinkling kind of way, and in this way humans and animals resemble trees and rocks.” The crumbling of our skin, in other words, reminds us of our kinship with nature, asserts its eternal, primordial rule over us. Jagger has in effect captured spontaneous flow—petrified magma, without losing the sense that it is fresh from a recent eruption. Death and Eros blend indistinguishably in one grand sculptural gesture.
— Donald Kuspit

Gillian Jagger: In Between
One of the old lions of the art world, Gillian Jagger, got a high five from John Perreault’s Artopia this week. She IS amazing.
Can an artist be too original, too ambitious? Gillian Jagger, in my book, is truly an original, one of the most original artists I have ever come across. Her work is bigger than life in its homage to both beasts and geology, and her use of space. The problem is that she is difficult to classify: critics, curators and collectors want examples of categories, not precedent-breaking, back-breaking, space-claiming, raw sculptures.
Jagger makes casts of what appear to be heavily trafficked pastures, the mud around wilderness watering holes and the unsung trails of migrating herds. And these great chunks of plaster and latex are deployed within specific exhibition sites to exploit the drama and the grandeur of her themes.
http://www.slowmuse.com/2008/10/22/gillian-jagger-in-between

 Artist - Gillian Jagger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Jagger
 

Carnegie Hall's Opening Night 1891

Carnegie Hall

Opening Night 1891
(From the Carnegie Hall Archives)

On May 5, 1891, Carnegie Hall opened its doors for the first time, Tchaikovsky ushering in a new standard for the presentation of live music and public events in New York City. 

 Carnegie Hall 1891

Now 120 years later—in the first of a new series—Carnegie Hall's Museum Director and Archivist Gino Francesconi provides a fascinating and entertaining insight into the Hall's first Opening Night, using some of the earliest and rarest artifacts from the Archives. 

Carnegie Hall 1895

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park. 

Carnegie Hall 1895

Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments, and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups. The hall has not had a resident company since 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall in 1973 and David Geffen Hall in 2015).

Carnegie Hall 1910

 

Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among its three auditoriums. 

More information about Carnegie Hall's history and Archives is available at http://www.carnegiehall.org/History/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall