[Leica] Music and paintings, a double pleasure

[Peter Klein]

After wandering among Native America ruins near Los Alamos, I visited 
the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.  It just so happened that 
cellist Matt Haimovitz, who likes to perform in non-traditional venues, 
was giving a recital there. He played the Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C 
minor.  I spent some time just listening, and some time looking at 
paintings that provided counterpoint to the music i was hearing.  I took 
a few pictures, too.

Here is Mr. Haimovitz playing.  He is using an iPad as a music stand. 
He's playing off a facsimile of the oldest surviving manuscript of the 
Suite, copied by Bach's wife, Anna Magdelena Bach.  I spoke to him 
afterwards, and he told me he found that it helped him tune into the 
composer's intentions. (Click on photo to enlarge).
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I liked the composition of his empty cello case sitting in a nook in the 
gallery.
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And I liked the subtle differences of color in the skylights in an 
adjacent gallery:
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After the concert, Mr. Haimovitz talks to a friend before his next gig.  
He played at a local brewery later that evening. More power to him!
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In addition to Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, the museum displayed 
numerous photographs of Ms. O'Keeffe by various photographers, most 
notably black and whites by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

--Peter