#royal danish academy of music

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Gerhard Sausmark (Jan. 31., 1919 - 1995) was a Danish artist - trained at the Academy in the late 1930s and after that active as a designer of ceramics and porcelain (he even had his own factory). He also worked in oils (portraits and landscapes), murals, and “music paintings”. The latter genre involved live painting sessions during classical concerts where Sausmark would capture the stories and moods of the piece on canvas.

Above: Snelandskab, year illegible - oil on canvas (Privately owned)

#art #danish artist #gerhard sausmark #oil on canvas #danish royal academy of fine arts #1970s #snow landscape #ceramics #danish designer #music painting #landscape painting

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 22

Mengs - self-portrait

1728 - The German proto-Neoclassical painter Anton Raphael Mengs, lover of Johann Joachim Winkelmann, was  born on this date (d.1779). Mengs was born at Ústí nad Labem in Bohemia. His father, Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter, established himself at Dresden, and from there he took his son to Rome in 1741.  

In Rome, Anton Mengs' fresco painting of Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter. The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Guazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting. Nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid. There Mengs produced some of his best work, and specially the ceiling of the banqueting-hall of the Royal Palace of Madrid, the subject of which was the Triumph of Trajan and the Temple of Glory.

After the completion of this work in 1777, Mengs returned to Rome, and there he died, two years later, in poor circumstances, leaving twenty children, seven of whom were pensioned by the king of Spain. His portraits and self-portraits recall an attention to detail and insight, often lost from the grand manner paintings.

Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works. In 1911, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, possessed a Holy Family, and the colleges of All Souls and Magdalen, at Oxford, possessed altar-pieces by Mengs's hand.His intimacy with Winckelmann, who constantly wrote at his dictation, has enhanced his historical importance.

Mengs was famous for his rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni. He was also a friend of Giacomo Casanova. Casanova provides accounts of his personality and contemporary reputation through anecdotes in Histoire de Ma Vie. Mengs died in Rome in June 1779 and was buried in the Roman Church of Santi Michele e Magno.

1930 – Today was the birthday of the American composer and lyricist for stage and film Stephen Sondheim (d.2021).

Having been rescued from a lonely childhood and encouraged as a boy by his neighbourhood friend's father, Oscar Hammerstein II, his career took off when, aged 26, he was asked to write the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The following year he was writing lyrics for Jule Styne's songs for Gypsy. His first attempt as a composer & lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) and a hit.

His work is hard to categorise. He was gay but rarely created a gay character; his range of subjects was diverse; he mastered many different musical styles, each new project was a new challenge; he was rarely formulaic. Lyrically he was as intelligent, witty and ironic as his music is audacious, in the style of his gay predecessors Noël Coward, Lorenz Hart or Cole Porter. His shows however, generally rejected traditional notions of love and romance and neither do they reflect the gay culture which has emerged and become mainstream during his career, although ironically, his work has contributed much to that culture and become part of the gay musical tapestry - songs such as: Somewhere, Losing My Mind, Being Alive, Send In The Clowns...

He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater."

His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.

Sondheim opened up regarding his sexuality when he was about 40. He rarely discussed his personal life, though he said in 2013 that he had not been in love before he turned 60, when he entered into a roughly eight-year relationship with dramatist Peter Jones. Sondheim married Jeffrey Scott Romley, a digital technologist, in 2017.

To celebrate his 80th birthday in 2010, the former Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, and the BBC Proms held a concert in his honor.Sondheim died of cardiovascular disease at his home in Roxbury in November 2021, at the age of 91, ten days after the premiere of the Stephen Spielberg/Tony Kushner remake of West Side Story.  Collaborator and friend Jeremy Sams said Sondheim "died in the arms of his husband Jeff". On December 8, 2021, Broadway theaters dimmed their marquee lights for one minute as a tribute.

1932 – Marcus Hernandez, who served as the Bay Area Reporter's longtime leather columnist was known to his legions of readers by his pen name "Mister Marcus" and dubbed the "dean of leather columnists." His weekly columns of contest goings-on and gossip were a must-read for leather community leaders, titleholders, and newcomers alike for 38 years.

Mr. Hernandez, whose first name was Gilbert, was born in Los Angeles. He served in the U.S. Air Force from August 1954 until he was honorably discharged in August 1960. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles but did not receive a degree.

Following the breakup of his marriage, Mr. Hernandez moved to San Francisco in 1968. Vice cops in Los Angeles, where he had been living, were arresting gay men and raiding gay bars, and a friend suggested he move north. That was also the year he came out, his son Curt Hernandez said.

"So in 1968 … I moved here. And the only bar I knew about was the Tool Box because in the 1960s, Life magazine ran this huge article on homosexuality in America and they had a picture in there of the Tool Box with a pair of white sneakers hanging down saying, 'Not allowed,'"Mr. Hernandez recalled. "It was a subject of disdain to be wearing white sneakers in a leather bar."

Mr. Hernandez worked in various leather bars for 12 years as a manager. He also served as the appointment secretary for then-Mayor Joseph Alioto.

It was around that time, in the early 1970s, that Mr. Hernandez wrote a column for the Advocate, which at the time was a gay newspaper. In October 1971, just six months after the B.A.R. started publishing, Mr. Hernandez was asked to write the paper's leather column. Mr. Hernandez's column focused primarily on the calendar of contests in the leather community. He also served as a judge at an estimated 250 contests over the years.

Mr. Hernandez also used his column to help many nonprofits, including the AIDS Emergency Fund, which provides cash grants to people living with disabling HIV/AIDS so that they can pay rent, utilities, and other expenses. AEF was started in the leather community, as the epidemic hit leathermen hard in San Francisco.

He died in 2009 because of complications from diabetes and arteriosclerosis.

1971 – Today is the birthday of Cuban-American actor Guillermo Díaz. He was born and grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Díaz, the son of Cuban-born parents, has starred in movies such as Stonewall (1995), Half Baked (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999). He currently stars as Huck in the ABC drama TV series Scandal.

Díaz is openly gay and has been throughout his career, but prior to that he was deeply closetted. He told Out magazine that the fact that he grew up in a rough neighborhood made it necessary to hide his orientation. "I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting."

In 2010, Díaz did a nude photoshoot for Pinups Magazine. The photoshoot featured full frontal nudity from Díaz (Below).

"Hello, down there!"

He has been praised for his ability to play a versatile range of characters including gangsters and drug dealers. Díaz played Guillermo García Gómez, a drug dealer/trafficker, in seasons 2-6 of Showtime's series Weeds. In 2009, he starred on the NBC series Mercy, where his portrayal of the gay nurse Angel received negative criticism in online forums for being too flamboyant.

1989 – Tyler Oakley is an American YouTube personality and advocate for LGBT youth, and social issues including healthcare, education, prevention of suicide among LGBT youth, and gay rights. Oakley presents on various topics including queer politics, pop culture, and humor on a regular basis.

Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video has received over 70,000 views on YouTube. Since uploading his first video while a freshman at Michigan State University, his work of over 350 videos has over 290,000,000 views and close to 5.8 million subscribers as of November 2014.

Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday video for over three years. Currently, he is described as having "one of the loudest voices on YouTube," and Bloomberg defines him as a "YouTube sensation."

He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report, "Generation Like," a follow-up on how teenagers are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The Merchants of Cool." As of June 2014 Oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 2.1 million on Instagram.

As of March 2013, he co-hostessed a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar until October thirty first when he announced his departure. He posts regularly on several social networking sites including Facebook, and Tumblr, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform. He is also known for his appearance in that he regularly has brightly-colored hair.

He is a rather busy guy:

It was announced that Oakley, alongside best friend Korey Kuhl, would be competing in the 28th season of The Amazing Race.

1993 – Lawrence Poirier comes out to his best friend Michael in cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s popular comic strip For Better or for Worse. Some 40 newspapers in the US and Canada refuse to run the four-week story; thousands cancel subscriptions to papers that do; in the end, however, 70 percent of the more than 2,500 letters Johnston receives about the series are positive.

1999 – Gavin MacIntosh is an American actor. Beginning his professional career as a child actor and model at the age of ten, MacIntosh is best known for his recurring role as Connor Stevens on the ABC Family drama series The Fosters.

In 2010, MacIntosh began his acting career with a starring role in the dramatic short film Turns. Additional short film roles include appearances as Young Martin Thomas in The Science of Death, and as Young Jonathan in Breathe. In 2011, he made his feature film debut alongside his brother Gage, appearing as brothers Mark and Nick Paterson respectively in the martial arts themed drama Blood Games: Sanctioned to Die.

In 2011, MacIntosh made his television debut with a guest-starring role as a member of Ron's scout troop on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation. Additional television roles include guest-starring appearances as Burt's 13-year-old brother Bruce in a 1981 flashback on the Fox comedy series Raising Hope, and as Young Brad in the pilot episode of the proposed science-fiction drama series H.O.P.E.

In 2013, MacIntosh began a recurring role on the ABC Family drama series The Fosters. On the series, MacIntosh portrays Connor, a handsome and kind-hearted boy who develops a special friendship with the shy and isolated foster child Jude Jacob-Foster (portrayed by Hayden Byerly), prompting the 13-year-old Jude to begin questioning his sexuality.

On March 2, 2015, ABC Family aired an episode of the The Fosters, "Now Hear This", that featured MacIntosh's character and Byerly's character sharing a kiss, believed to be the youngest LGBT kiss ever in U.S. television history. In two tweets on March 29, 2015, MacIntosh took issue with YouTube's decision to add an age restriction for access to video of his character's kiss scene with Byerly's character, prompting a vocal social media campaign, and YouTube removed the age restriction less than a day later.

The Fosters TV’s Youngest Same-Sex Kiss scene was featured as #9 in The 19 Biggest LGBT Moments On TV In 2015. MacIntosh and Byerly's kiss was also listed in the 7 Best Moments From ABC Family The Wrap Rewind 2015. On December 23, 2015 MacIntosh was featured in the publication OUT Magazine discussing his famous gay kiss.

MacIntosh's personal interests include skateboarding, biking, and competitive soccer, as well as sketching, painting, and songwriting. MacIntosh is an outspoken straight ally for LGBT rights and equality. In addition, alongside his Fosters co-star Hayden Byerly, he is an advocate against bullying, encouraging youngsters to embrace their differences and lending his support to the "Be Good to Each Other" campaign.

2004 – In Oregon, the commissioners of Benton County decided not to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This reversal of an earlier vote was due to receiving a letter from state attorney general Hardy Myers on the matter. In place of same-sex marriage licenses, the commissioners decided to stop issuing any marriage licenses to anyone at all until the Oregon Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the discriminatory provisions of Oregon’s marriage laws.

#Youtube

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Carl Holsøe (Danish,1863-1935)

In the 15th century, a previously unknown type of representation conquered the European art scene. Interiors became popular motifs for paintings and prints. Under the old masters of the Netherlands, interior painting experienced a peak. With the advent of modernism, interior painting experienced a renaissance in Scandinavia. Three Danish artists are considered pioneers who revived the depiction of interiors with their work. They succeeded with great sensitivity in combining the recollection with contemporary developments. Carl Holsøe, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Peter Ilsted were three artists whose working methods were fundamentally different. Carl Holsøe is considered a classical painter. His education followed the traditional career of a son from a home close to education. His father was an architect and his birthplace was Aarhus, a metropolis of artists. Holsøe was educated at the prestigious Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and perfected his talent under the tutelage of Peder Severin Krøyer one of the most influential Danish painters of the era.

Note: Carl Holsøe did not date his paintings. I have included dates whenever they were attributed in my image sources, though I assume they're approximate.

Girl Standing on a Balcony

Interior, Light of Spring

Sunlit Interior

Sunlit interior with a commode, a plant on a pedestal and paintings on the wall

The Music Room

Afternoon Tea

Interior with Woman Sewing • c. 1910

Mother and Child at the Table

Interior with Cello

A Woman by a Dining Table

Woman Reading in an Interior

Souce: meisterdrucke.uk

#fine art #art #early 20th century art #oil painting #painting #classical art #classissism #carl holsøe #danish painting #danish art #interiors #art history #rooms #paintings of women #domestic scenes

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Vica Pacheco/Maria Bertel/Ying-Hsueh Chen - 29/04/2023 - at Intonal

The Mexican-born artist and musician enlists the Danish trombonist and Taiwanese percussionist/multi-instrumentalist for a live soundtrack for the world premiere of her original animation.

Commisioned SHAPE+ work.

Pacheco studied art in Mexico City and France, and while her work is rooted in experimental music and composition, she also has a plastic practice ranging from ceramics to 3D animation. Chen was educated at the Juilliard School and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, has won several awards in USA and Denmark, and her concerts have been broadcast on national and international radio and TV in Denmark, USA, Taiwan, and South Korea. The “Ancestral Modernism” concert series, in which primordial sonic experiences are delivered by bringing out the universality of avant-garde and ancestral heritage, is a milestone among her projects. Bertel is a co-founder of the Copenhagen-based art collective eget værelse and apart from her work as a solo artist, she performs and composes in groups like GESH (with drummer Jaleh Negari), Selvhenter (the notorious noise rock band), an improvised noise duo with Nina Garcia, the G.E.K duo with saxophone player Johannes Lund, and more.

Ita means flower in Mixteco, the indigenous Mesoamerican culture in the Mexican region of Oaxaca – where Pacheco was born. Deeply inspired by Oskar Fischinger’s animations for music, Ernst Haeckel’s artistic-scientific drawings, and observations of nature, ITA evokes organic, living elements that create a network in constant movement.

#Vica Pacheco/Maria Bertel/Ying-Hsueh Chen #Concert #Art #Animation #Noise #Percussion

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Crown Princess Mary of Denmark at the Royal Danish Academy of Music's Children's Choir Christmas concert at RDAM'S Concert Hall in Frederiksberg - 03.12.22

#crown princess mary #danish royal family

[gabriellademonaco]

Crown Princess Mary’s Official Engagements in December 2022:

01/12: Christmas Reception for Mary Foundation Partners

02/12: Launch of the "Community Survey II"

03/12: Royal Danish Academy of Music Children's Choir Christmas Concert

??/12: Visit to Cancer Patients in Rigshospitalet

#crown princess mary #danish royal family #royaltyedit #royal fashion #marys engagements #mine

[lesser-known-composers]

Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in D-Minor op. 56, Voces Intimae.

Nordic String Quartet : Heiðrun Petersen (Faroe Islands) - Violin Mads Haugsted Hansen (Denmark) - Violin Daniel Eklund (Sweden) - Viola Lea Emilie Brøndal (Denmark) – Cello Video: Jakob Pagel Andersen

Recorded at Royal Danish Academy of Music

#Jean Sibelius #string quartet #Youtube

[ravnradio]

#artist #artists #Echoes #Musician #musicians #NewMusicRelease #performer #producer #singer #songwriter #Stereomusic #Villiam #writer

[artiztline]

Shall I Compare Thee by Morten Poulsen To listen this new track on spotify and Enjoy it…

#classical #Morten_Poulsen #newrelease #Shall_I_Compare_Thee #Spotify

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Creative Profile 9 - Giordano Bellincampi

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's music director is Giordano Bellincampi. He was born in Italy and spent his early years in Copenhagen. In 1994, he made his directing debut. He started his career as a trombone with the Royal Danish Orchestra.

The chief conductor of the Kristiansand Symphony, the principal conductor of Milan's I Pomeriggi Musicali, the music director of the Duisburg Philharmonic, the music director of the Danish National Opera in Aarhus, and the music director of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra are just a few of his previous roles. He has an adjunct faculty position at the Royal Danish Academy.

In recognition of his contributions to Danish culture, the Danish Royal Family named him a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2010. He also bears the title of Cavaliere from the President of Italy.

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#DieKrönungderKammermusik #Harfen-Fantasien #Jussenpur #RhapsodyinBlue #Tastenstürme #WarburgerMeisterkonzerte

[i12bent]

Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen (Sept. 10, 1894 - 1984) had a characteristic ‘boxy’ style of functionalism in most of his buildings (Daells Varehus, Shellhuset, etc.). He was a significant presence in Copenhagen for decades, with high-profile customers such as Danish Radio and TV, Copenhagen Airport, a.m.o.

Here we see the Vilhelm Lauritzen terminal in Kastrup Airport, dating from 1939. The Vilhelm Lauritzen company has continued to build terminals in Copenhagen Airport and thanks to them we have an airport with wooden floors and curvy ceilings throughout.

His work for Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) includes Radiohuset on Rosenørns Allé, TV-Byen in Gladsaxe and DR-byen out on Amager. Here is the concert hall in Radiohuset, which is now used by the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Vilhelm Lauritzen - in the good Danish design tradition - also created furniture, lamps and other furnishings. His favorite materials were brass and milky glass.

#architecture #danish architect #vilhelm lauritzen #1930s #daells varehus #radiohuset #shellhuset #tv-byen #gyngemosen #dr-byen #kastrup lufthavn #vilhelm lauritzen terminalen #Copenhagen Airport #rosenørns allé #radiohusets koncertsal #royal danish academy of music #danish broadcasting corporation #danmarks radio #dr #loftkronen #brass fixtures #chandelier

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Elegant Affable Virtuosity, Hanzhi Wang at the Music Academy of the West

Elegant Affable Virtuosity, Hanzhi Wang at the Music Academy of the West

Hanzhi Wang with her Pigini concert accordion (publicity photo from the internet)

On the first day of February, on a sunny day in Santa Barbara, rising star Hanzhi Wang presented a solo recital in Hahn Hall at the matinee hour of 4PM.  Despite the beautiful weather a substantial crowd gathered for this event which was part of the always notable UCSB Arts and Lectures series.

This young performer…

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#accordion #Alfred Schnittke #Astor Piazolla #Bach #baroque #Carnegie Hall #China Central Conservatory of Music #classical #Domenico Scarlatti #Edvard Grieg #Hahn Hall #Hanzhi Wang #Jean-Philippe Rameau #Kennedy Center #Moritz Moszkowski #Music Academy of the West #Nikolai Gogol #Pigini accordions #polystylism #Royal Danish Academy of Music #Switched on Bach #virtuosity #Wendy Carlos #Young Concert Artists #Zankel Hall

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You are welcome to attend the China Day concert at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 13:00-17:00 on Saturday! You can enjoy the wonderful performance all for free! 😁👍🎉💃❤️ 非常欢迎大家周六13:00-17:00来参加丹麦皇家音乐学院孔子学院的China Day音乐会! 可以免费欣赏精彩的表演！😁👍🎉💃❤️ #welcome #music #royal #attend #china #forfree #concert #performance #saturday #wonderful #academy #danish #travel #business #chinese #day #luxury #events #youcan #enjoy #youarewelcome #tourism (at The Royal Danish Academy of Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/B24R7qOlgUN/?igshid=sbxijrb2lhad

#welcome #music #royal #attend #china #forfree #concert #performance #saturday #wonderful #academy #danish #travel #business #chinese #day #luxury #events #youcan #enjoy #youarewelcome #tourism

[gabriellademonaco]

Crown Princess Mary, along with Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, visited the Copenhagen Zoo for the groundbreaking ceremony of the new park 'Mary's Australian Garden', which will be home to Australian animals including kangaroos and Tasmanian devils.

The Royal Danish Academy of Music's Children's Choir made a surprise appearance and sang a birthday song for the Crown Princess.

#crown princess mary #prince vincent #princess josephine #danish royal family #mary 50 bday #mine #i love all the new facilities in her name #tbh these are better than photos and galas bc they will last #and used by people

[lesser-known-composers]

"Aftenskyerne" is a song by danish composer Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949), performed by mezzosoprano Kirsten Voss and pianist Maren Marie Tange at Kirsten Voss' debut from Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, in Musikhuset Aarhus 2022.

#Nancy Dalberg