Dear Richard, It was very interesting to read about you being so passionate about tango in general, and Piazzolla music in particular.
As for the Austin Piazzolla Quintet (not to be confused with another APQ - Astor Piazzolla Quintet), you can see a bunch of their videos on YouTube, and listen to some clips on their webpage: http://www.apqtango.com/ They released their CD just ~2 months ago - it's available from their site and CDbaby.com (I am not associated with them, - it is not an advertisement! :-) ) At the CD-Release Party (milonga), I took some photos: http://42graphy.org/tango/apq-2010/ (Photos of musicians are at the beginning of p.1, and at the end - p.3-4) I purposely included in that gallery a few mini-series (2-4) of similar photos in an attempt of showing dynamics of the action. (Although, I just noticed that several photos that I didn't intend to include are there, - I must've switched off the filter when I was generating the gallery, - I should redo it next time I get to it.) I also tried to shoot a short video, but 1) I am not a videographer, and seldom do any videos; 2) It was not thought about ahead of time; 3) The high-speed lens I had was FA-50/1.4, and it was too long for this project (the room is packed with dancers, and the stage is rather small). Hence, - "excuse the dust": http://www.youtube.com/user/SwingStR#p/c/AADDEFB1E1D8AC0F/2/VQgd_RDFQhI (It was shot with K-7, - the highlights are burnt, probably due to very small dynamic range at high ISO (1600?) and hot-spot lights in the room). Cheers, Igor Sat Oct 16 07:58:18 CDT 2010 Richard D Bush wrote: Dear Igor, Besides being a Pentax guy as a photography hobbyist, I am also a musician. I have been a professional musician and educator most of my life. I play most of the woodwinds, the clarinet, flute, saxophone and bassoon. My musical interests are in both the classical side of things and in jazz. For a very long time I've been a fan of the music of Astor Piazzolla. Though I consider the tango to be maybe the world's sexiest dance, I am, however, NOT a dancer. If I ever get to Austin, I'd love to go hear this Austin Piazzolla Quintet. What a wonderful way to spend an evening and have a beer or two. I'm sure you're having a blast with this musical association and the people involved. Yours truly, Richard Bush On Oct 15, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi All, I thought, I'd share this with you. I've been invited to present a workshop-slideshow "Dancers and Photographs". This workshop is a result of the last 4+ years of me taking photographs at various dance events (various flavors of swing dances, blues and argentine tango), my own research, experimentation (and dance classes), as well as discussions with professional dance instructors and dance competition judges. Here is the flyer with a short and long descriptions: http://42graphy.org/news/DancersAndPhotographs-esquina-ds.pdf At this point, I have two presenations scheduled in Austin: 1. Next weekend, before a milonga (tango party) with live performance by a very nice tango band - Austin Piazzolla Quintet http://www.esquinatangoaustin.com/index.php/social-events/piazzolla-quintet 2. Next month, at a large Lindy-Hop festival - Austin Lindy Exchange http://www.austinlindyexchange.org/excursions.php (followed by the dance & live music by nice Austin Jazz musicians Ryan Gould and His Big Big Band) http://42graphy.org/news/DancersAndPhotographs-esquina-ds.pdf Cheers, Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
