[Leica] SESO: AfroPop in Virginia

[robertmeier at usjet.net (robertmeier@usjet.net)]

John,

Good coverage of the rehearsal and concert.   What lenses did you usje on 
each camera?  The B&W's from the M2 have much more shadow detail than the 
D70 B&W's.  So much jso that they don't look likel they were taken in the 
same setting at all.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Mason" <profmason@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: [Leica] SESO: AfroPop in Virginia


> Luggers, a series (every so often).
>
> Last week, the Univ of Virginia hosted a festival of
> African popular music.  I was there, M2 and Nikon in
> hand, to shoot for the university's music department
> and myself.
>
> Featured artists included Abdoulaye Diabate, from
> Mali:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810342>
>
> On Saturday evening, he performed with the Free Bridge
> Quintet, the university?s faculty jazz ensemble.
>
> Despite comining from distinct performance traditions,
> at an afternoon rehearsal, the musicians soon
> discovered musical language:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810343>
>
> The rehearsal went so well, that I wondered if the
> musicians would have anything left for the evening?s
> concert:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810344>
>
> Diabate was on fire:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810346>
>
> I needn't have worried about the energy and virtuosity
> that would be on display that night:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810348>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810356>
>
> And (in homage to Roy DeCarava):
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810351>
>
> Diabate and his band also performed outdoors on Sunday
> afternoon.  Corey Harris opened:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810359>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810363>
>
> Followed by Diabate's group.  Despite have
> participated in a workshop, a rehearsal, and a concert
> on the previous two days, it was another stunning
> performance:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810371>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810374>
>
> The mood was so infectious that even university
> professors got into the act.
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810375>
>
> (I suppose that I should mention that Heather is an
> ethnomusicologist and a fine performer in her own
> right.)
>
> Other featured artists included Thomas Mapfumo, from
> Zimbabwe.  Once a staunch opponent of colonialism and
> white supremacy in what was then Rhodesia, he is now a
> critic of Robert Mugabe?s regime:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810337>
>
> No longer young, he conserves his energy on stage, the
> quiet eye of a hurricane of music and dance:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810338>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810340>
>
> Kanda Bongo Man, the soukous king from the Congo, was
> also on hand:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810377>
>
> Not only did he get the audience up out of their
> seats, he got them on stage with the band, as well.
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810381>
>
> Which gave me a chance to join them with my M2:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810382>
>
> A good time, to say the least, was had by all:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810384>
>
> The only quiet time that I had over the course of the
> festival were the few hours that I spent with the
> Senegalese artist Bara Diakhane, in his makeshift
> studio:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810330>
>
> He was in Charlottesville to create an instillation
> for the festival.  The light in the room, once a
> blackbox theater, was so awful that it was good:
>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810333>
> <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810335>
>
> Thanks for looking.  --John
>
>
>
> =====
> J Mason
> Charlottesville, Virginia
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