Alessandra Marc Returns to New York - 2/6 Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall

Alessandra Marc, one of the greatest singers of this generation -- and my favorite soprano -- is returning to the New York stage next week--to Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at 8:30pm. If you know about and love this long-underappreciated, grand artist, please don't miss this concert event!

More Great Music from Iwashiro Taro

 
Another wonderful example of the music of the great Japanese cinema and classical composer Iwashiro Taro (岩代 太郎), who scored John Woo (吳宇森, Wu Yu-Sen)'s epic, RED CLIFF. This, from Japanese TV's Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (葵　徳川三代)--as I understand it, conducted by the one-and-only Charles Dutoit!!!:

My father Frank Ufert - Born December 9 1933

My dad, Frank Ufert, who passed away this summer, would have been 76 years old today. He was truly loved, is terribly missed and his memory will never be forgotten.

Giving Thanks

(2007. L-R: My late father, Frank Ufert; a rabbit; my mom, Josephine Ufert)

I'm so grateful to have been given a chance to be a part of the organic collective that is every one of you--in this time, affecting the emotion, intellect, politic, economic that touches all of us and will impact the future.

Happy Thanksgiving

I want to wish a very Happy Thanksgiving 2009 to all!

President Barack Obama Nobel Laureate

CONGRATULATIONS!

Irving Penn 1917-2009

I just read that we lost Irving Penn, at age 92. Penn was, in my humble opinion, the greatest of all American fashion photographers and one of the top two American photo portraitists (with the late Richard Avedon). My opinion of Penn's genius is shared by hundreds of thousands of others, and it is an informed opinion--I grew up with a fabulously talented photographer father who loved and taught me the value of Penn's work. (Ironically, we also lost my father, Frank Ufert, this year, as Irving Penn once saw my father's work and admired it... quite a compliment!)

I am devastated. He lived a long and incredibly productive life, but he will be so, so missed. NO ONE ELSE, again in my opinion, had a more masterful eye than Irving Penn.

See the announcement from the Associated Press.