Sentences with phrase «blind musician rory»

In a case study in the effects of curatorial tone, Emeka Ogboh, who showed a joyless sound installation at Documenta involving a Greek chorus, created a bewitching one for a major pedestrian tunnel in Münster as a tribute to Moondog, a blind musician whose home base was Midtown Manhattan.

There were some of his earliest works — reportage of soldiers resting away from the battlefields of World War I. Also from this first great period of photographing were classics such as» Circus, Budapest» 1920 and the «Blind Musician» 1921.

Finally, congratulations to blind musician Rory Hoffman, on 3 tracks of the new Hank Williams the third album

The film is about a blind musician, played by Natalie Dormer, who hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

«Hoichi the Earless,» the longest of the chapters at more than an hour, begins with a stylized sea battle created in a studio tank and then resurrects the ghosts of battle to hear the epic song histories of a blind musician.

In the midst of masses hypnotized by drunkenness, whoring and ambition wander a few men of integrity: Maxwell, a former religious, now a bricklayer and community leader; Bazalar, the pigman; Antolin Crispin, the blind musician; the mad prophet Moncada and his consumptive sidekick, Don Esteban de la Cruz.

A new study now finds that blind musicians are more likely to have perfect pitch than sighted people are.

This year the company is doing public trials with a number of blind musicians.

John Singer Sargent, Blind Musicians, 1912, watercolour on paper, on preliminary pencil, 39.4 x 53 cm, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections.

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The GapJumpers concept is based upon the blind auditions that utterly changed the way orchestras hire musicians.

Because of such legends, there's a perception that blind people make great musicians.

Jordan Aguirre, also known as bLiNd, is a musician best known for creating remixes of popular video game music through Overclocked Remix.

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

The Old Musician is almost blind, his left eye damaged long ago by a bludgeon and his right by age.

The vibrant scenes contrast crowds of dancers and musicians in a swirl of animated motion with scenes of the nearly blind Tatum, set against moody, abstract, shifting colors.

Hull has organized numerous publications and exhibitions including Blind Date (1998), a catalogue of 31 artists and writers» collaborations; I'm Still In Love With You (1998 - 99), an album and catalogue in which visual artists and writers respond to the 1972 album by Al Green; Song Poems (2000 - 01), a catalogue with three CDs of 43 original lyrics, songs and album art contributed by numerous writers, artists and musicians; and Nothing Moments (2007), a publishing and curatorial project consisting of 24 limited edition books and over 400 original drawings.

The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.

In each country I ask musicians — dressed in uniforms and positioned beside the traffic lights — to mimic the digital acoustic crossing sounds that signal the time to cross for the blind.

** A special «TANK «s to all the Musicians and Artists who contributed to The Water Tank Project's Kickstarter film: People Get Ready (Uncanny), ElastikMusic (Lalo1), Blind Pilot (We Are the Tide), Dustin Yellin, Marilyn Minter and Catherine Opie.

One of the earliest examples of blind recruitment being put into practice actually took place in 1980 in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which, up until then, was comprised almost entirely of white male musicians.