This is my entry for YouTube Play Guggenheim Project to encourage something NEW! I had intended to do one version for ballet lovers and one for opera but like the Bourgeois Gentillehome I ran out of time and have had to run them together.
I have done everything on this video myself with the exception of composing the music. I sang it, wrote and arranged and mixed the accompaniment in Garageband, filmed edited all the footage and if I had been younger I could have done the ballet.
There is nothing exceptional in this as I had a broad artistic education and as I have lived by my wits as an artist for forty years I learned how to do 'everything' necessary. I can even light a theatre production in a massie theatre and hang the lamps too.
IT has given me the opportunity to play. I can now do all the things I wanted to do when I was 18 and never had the opportunity. I am still coming to terms with the technology. Copyright laws are so tough at the moment that one needs to have one's own material or a huge bank balance. Sadly it means in a few areas I am not as good as I should like but I shall get better in time.
One comment on a brilliant piece of animation (not mine!) for YouPlay said.
'Why this this video only 159 views?'
Originally I had not intended to write a long intro as these are so boring but it is interesting that the serious arts get so few views. My ballet video for the Royal Opera Houses version of YouPlay has at the most 250 views and so far as I can see no other participant has entered.
Arts videos get very few views but that is part of being a creative artist. Even for Guggenheim YouPlay it is the Surfing Video that has 144,000 views for a great but ordinary surf video.The rest of us the views are in the hundreds for some highly original and enjoyable work.
Lohengrin gets 74 and I expect most of them mine! To appreciate Lohengrin and what I have achieved you must first have some idea of the past and present state of the art and at least know that Lohengrin was a knight who turned out to be a disappointment! First sign of his wife disobeying him and up upped and left.
Wagner is stagnating in the 1930's to 1960's. Just take a look at how few modern versions there are on YouTube. NIL! My version is about as revolutionary as the Impressionists in their day. Adding graphics may be tolerated but Ballet! That is too much.
(Since writing this I see the count has gone up to over 2,000! I am so delighted. I think it maybe because I placed it on the Wagner Group on Facebook and the Schoenberg 8,000! This has restored my faith in human nature!)
Thirty years ago I did multi media opera productions in Auckland. They were met with howls of abuse from the critics but this type of production is main stream today and with the current technology a magical experience that is worth paying for.Fortunately I still have the videos but no copyright approval so you could see just how before their time they were. You do not have to take my word for it.
The only video for which i I have permission is "The Cabaret Songs of Schoenberg" for which there is a video clip see below.
Let us hope the Guggenhiem can become a centre for promoting unusual arts videos. Browsers will visit their site and be able to find easily unusual arts videos.
Will I get chosen? I doubt it. I do not live in USA and like the Oscars judges can be very parochial on these occasions. If they chose the surfing video I shall give up all hope for the arts!
The Songs of Arnold Schoenberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cWHStY8_nc
janette miller's blog
http://janettemillers.blogspot.com/2010/07/lohengrin-knight-in-shining-armour...
janette's web pages
http://www. janetteheffernan.com
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Guggenheim Project Youtube Playby Tomateauke2,898 views
Well done.
lewars1912 9 months ago
Thatwas very sweet and very symbolic...
TheSpyrokid 1 year ago
Bella versión. Un abrazo desde México.
ariastoteles 1 year ago
completely impressed, brava!!!!!!
wenarto 1 year ago