Amahl and the Night Visitors 11-12-2010

Amahl and the Night Visitors 11-12-2010 ....

A beloved Christmas favorite. Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto (an extended musical work) by the composer It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America. The opera is now a popular Christmas classic, although younger audiences who have grown up during the era of MTV and other music video channels probably are not as aware of it as their parents or grandparents were. Commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera on December 24, 1951 in New York City, at NBC studio ...
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The USF Bone Band .... 11-8, 2010

The USF Bone Band ....
. The USF Trombone Band is a small ensemble that consists of seven trombonists plus a Rhythm Section (guitar, piano, bass, drums) performing early to contemporary jazz works. Tonight’s featured Guest Artist and Trombonist is Mark Kellogg. Graduate student and guitarist Geoff Sheil also premiered a piece he composed called “Curious Daydream”.

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. The word trombone derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and a suffix meaning "large", so the name literally means "large trumpet". The trombone is usually characterized by a telescopic slide with which the player varies the length of the tube to change pitches ...
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Music Events Attended In October 2010 ....

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Music Events Attended in October 2010 ...
For Class "History of Music in the U.S. ...
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Music Events Attended In Sept 2010 ...

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USF Monday Night Jazz - Tribute to the Big Bands 9-27-2010 ...

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USF Recital: John Robison, Renaissance Lute 9-19-2010 ...
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A Event – Performance by St. Petersburg Opera of A Little Night Music
at the Palladium Theater in St Petersburg FL 9-14-2010
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The Salvador Dalí Museum

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St Pete Pier About 1 Mile from Dali ...

Looking at Pier from Shoreline - Pier is Way Off in Distance ...
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Top Deck of St Pete Pier ...

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St Pete Shoreline Viewed From the Top of Pier ...

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Downtown St Pete View from Top of Pier ...

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The Park Behind Jetty of Land is Where First Pic was Taken From ...
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USF St Pete Campus, Park, & Marina Next to Dali ...

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The Salvador Dalí Museum

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Spanish artist Salavador Dali (1904-1989) is one of the most important artists of the Surrealist school and the most famous artist of the twentieth century. His technically brilliant and meticulously detailed depicted dreamlike and hallucinatory scenes with the force or concrete reality. Psychological and emotional states, the creative force, sexuality, and religious themes are among the primary concerns. In addition to paintings, Dali also produced, ceramics, sculptures, and jewelry.
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The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, houses the largest collection outside Europe of the works of the artist Salvador Dalí and is located on the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus.

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Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

The woman is his beloved Gala, of course. Her pose here is one Dali favored, facing away, looking at a harbor from a window. Like Lincoln, Gala represented an ideal to Dali. In truth, she was often greedy, vain and overbearing. But to him, she was the perfect muse, providing strength and inspiration, always in the end mysterious and unknowable. She also appears at the lower left as a shadowy, dreamlike figure. At the time of the painting, she was well into her 70s, but she remains, in his eyes, a young, lissome woman.


The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is over 14 feet tall and over 9 feet wide (410 x 284 cm; 161.4 x 111.8 in), one in a series of large paintings Dalí did during this era.

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The Tampa Museum of Art ...

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Walking across the Hillsborough River Bridge to get to the museum ...

The Tampa Museum of Art was designed by Stanley Saitowitz, a San Francisco architect who has designed distinctive architecture in San Francisco. The building has 66,000 square feet that includes eight galleries providing 14,000 square feet for art exhibitions.


Located in downtown Tampa the museum opened on February 6, 2010. February 2010 was one of the coldest on record in Tampa with temperatures on average 10 degrees below normal. Note the color of the grass and people's dress.


Museum Park & Buildings Around The Museum . Glazer Children's Museum is located next to the art museum ...


Art Light Show

Aluminum panels that sheath the top of the exterior. From a distance, they look solid but close up you'll see they are pierced with 900,000 circles. Under the 900,000 circles are LED light panels. Art light show weekends at 6:30 at night.






No pictures are allowed in museum galleries, only the lobby ...


Rainbows ...
One of the museum's features is a Dog Park and observation baloney...


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