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Fashion Friday: Adopt a Pompeiian Dog

For my fashion inspiration this week, I turned to ancient Pompeii, an urban land that succumbed to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, located on the western coast of Italy, southeast of Naples. The ruins of the city laid buried under ash and earth until 1748 when murals and bodies posed as action figures frozen in time were revealed. While much has been excavatied, today, there are still over 50 acres of land yet to be explored, with growing access to the public as the archeology dig expands.

The allure of Pompeii lies in the catastrophic and immediate deaths of so many who failed to escape, becoming concrete mummies in situ. Recent discoveries in a nearby villa have shown scholars that life in Pompeii was not to be envied, with slavery paramount and social welfare nonexistent.

In spite of the tough Pompeii society, the urban streets were very multi-cultural where theatre was performed in Greek. Street vendors and food stalls provided Roman urbanites with stews of sheep, snail, and fish. Graffiti was found everywhere. Inside one food stall is the mural of a chained dog, with graffiti scrawled on the mural’s painted frame, blaspheming a snack bar owner.

Carnal proclivities were not uncommon in ancient Pompeii. For instance, an excavated fresco of the Spartan queen Leda hints at the everyday homage to the eroticism of mythology. In this story, Leda is seduced and raped by Zeus in swan-form bearing heirs whose power continued the deity tradition of wickedness.

Fortunately, today's leaders of the Great Pompeii Project are using $137 million of EU funds to reach a vast audience, including Instagram and Twitter followers. Prior to this joint effort, the ruins of Pompeii suffered from environmental overexposure, looting, and Italian red-tape while being nestled in a region of organized crime. In fact, packs of stray Pompeiian dogs are now available for adoption as the archeological site leads modern conservationism efforts by abating tourism blight and corruption traps.

My first fashion plate is titled "Dog Paws Dress," highlighting the round velvet foot-pads of our furry friends. The remaining designs are similarly inspired; can you spot these single inspirations?

Here is a listing of sources from the UWM Special Collections and the New York Times, which I have augmented with digital color and outline to emphasize particular details of my inspiration:

1, 3, 4, 8). Photographs of ancient Pompeii frescoes and two Roman bodies, published by The New York Times, written by Elisabetta Povoledo, 2018 - 2020. Images 3 an 4 inspired my own designs for the Swan Wrap Dress and the Curly Rooster Dress.

2, 8). My interpretation and contemporary design of the Dog Paws Dress inspired by David Hawcock's pop-up book, The Pompeii Pop-Up, published by Universe Publishing in 2007.

5) Costume illustration of Roman warriors with animal predator as hooded cloak, in Geschichte des Kostums, published by E. Weyhe in 1923.

6) Woodcut prints by the illustrator Kurt Craemer as published in The Last Days of Pompeii by the Limited Editions Club in 1956.

7) Works Projects Administration illustration of Roman warriors as published in the Costumes of the World, 100 Hand Colored Plates from Ancient Egypt to the Gay Nineties in 1940.

9) Jewelry of the Roman civilization with several animal motifs in Alexander Speltz's plate collection, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity, published by Baumgärtner in 1915.

10) Ornamentation of Roman aesthetic as seen in Giulio Ferrari's Volume 1: Gli Stili Nella Forma e nel Colore, Rassegna dell' arte antica e Moderna di Tutti i Paesi, published by C. Crudo & Co. in 1925.

View my other posts on historical fashion research in Special Collections.

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—Christine Westrich, MFA Graduate Student in Intermedia Arts

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\resenting String and Piano Virtuosos and Stars of the Chamber Music and Vocal Worlds in Concerts at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington Fall, Winter, Spring 2018-2019

(Great Barrington, MA…) Embarking on its 27th year of presenting outstanding chamber music with lively commentary, the Berkshires’ premier chamber music organization Close Encounters With Music continues its second quarter-century with a new season of commemorations and discoveries, world-renowned musicians and extraordinary new faces, and an expansion of original programming of classical, contemporary and cutting-edge music.

Humor and gastronomy figure large in the upcoming season. Rossini was just as recognized for his culinary talent as he was for his musical talent and exhibited his wit in both realms, naming many works after foods in hilarious onomatopoetic parodies. Schubert created a mouthwatering feast for the ears with his “Trout” Quintet. Haydn could have been a stand-up comedian if he hadn’t been the musical genius he was, and injects jokes to delight and surprise. Dvorak longed for his Czech beer while composing and teaching in America.

Audience members are invited to savor the music and the fun as well as the culinary connections with the trademark thematic concerts and receptions. Bringing to life the music selected this season are the Escher Quartet, which has risen meteorically to the highest echelons of the string quartet firmament; pianists Inna Faliks, Max Levinson, Soyeon Kate Lee and Roman Rabinovich; violinists Irina Muresanu, Hagai Shaham, Peter Zazofsky and Itamar Zorman; voicalists Emily Marvosh and Sonja Tengblad; the outstanding American Brass Quintet, and many more CEWM returning favorites and brilliant performers making their debuts. From October to June, it’s a season not to be missed!

Artistic Director Yehuda Hanani has led the series since its founding, providing entertaining, erudite commentary that puts the composers and their times in perspective to enrich and amplify the concert experience. Each concert is framed by an introduction before the music, and is followed by an AFTERGLOW reception with an informal “talk-back” and an opportunity to meet the musicians. Venues include the landmark Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and the newly renovated Saint James Place in Great Barrington. To complement the musical offerings, two guest speakers, Haydn scholar Caryl Clark, and composer Tamar Muskal are featured in the Conversations With…. series at the West Stockbridge Historical Society and Casana T-House in Hillsdale, NY.

2018-2019 SEASON

A ROSSINI EXTRAVAGANZA!

Saturday, October 13, 6 PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

The season opens Saturday, October 13, at 6 PM celebrating the 150th anniversary of the death of the great Italian composer Gioachino Rossini with an evening illustrating the wide range of his majestic, hilariously wicked and sparkling music—arias and duets from Tancredi, Adina, Cenerentola, and selections from his brilliant piano music Péchés des vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) composed at the end of his life. The enchanting contralto Emily Marvosh is joined by soprano Sonja Tengblad (“crystalline tone and graceful musicality—Boston Globe) in a romp through vocal works, that will also include the glorious Barcarolle by Jacques Offenbach, whose music Rossini championed. Pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, presents some of the fiendishly challenging Péchés that reveal a portrait of a bon vivant who pushed humor, gastronomy—and technique—to their limits. A finishing flourish will be a performance of a string quartet written originally at the tender age of twelve!

A Taste of Rossini! Pre-Concert Rossini-themed Reception will take place for Patrons and Season Subscribers.

Sonja Tengblad

Roman Rabinovich

Emily Marvosh

Emily Marvosh, contralto; Sonja Tengblad, soprano; Roman Rabinovich, piano

MOZART AND SCHUBERT—MARZIPAN AND THE “TROUT”

Saturday, December 8, 6 PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

Two great melodists, two young geniuses in one brilliant evening: Bubbly, like fine Champagne, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet is one of the most joyous pieces ever written. A landmark of classical music, it weaves a net of enchantment with its catchy melodies and fresh exuberance. This piece has it all—elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humor; music from the pen of a 22 year old prodigy inspired by the tragic-comic death of a fish that captures the glories of Nature! The program also features Mozart’s miraculous Quartet in E-flat Major, a reminder that the unearthly beauties of Mozart defy explanation. An all-star ensemble that joins artistic director Yehuda Hanani includes pianist Max Levinson (“Brilliant…He uses his wide spectrum of pianistic mechanics for altogether poetic ends, touching the listener deeply and often” –Los Angeles Times); violinist Itamar Zorman (winner of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition); and David Grossman, double bass of the New York Philharmonic.

Max Levinson, piano; Itamar Zorman, violin; Karine Lethiec, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello; David Grossman, double bass

HAYDN SEEK—HUMOR IN THE WORKS OF PAPA HAYDN

Saturday, February 23, 6 PM

Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA

$38 general seating, Students $15

What constitutes a musical—or any other kind of—joke? Humor explodes our expectations and takes us by surprise. Three Haydn string quartets, including his “Joke” Quartet, provide an evening of ambiguous beginnings and fake-out endings; mismatched dialogues between instruments, misunderstandings, musical pratfalls and pretend memory lapses and digressions. What about those embarrassing long pauses, that daring modulation, that unexpected excursion into strange tonalities….? It’s all intentional and part of the fun! From the composer of the “Surprise” Symphony who wrote a cat’s meow into another comes a slightly tipsy “high” as well as “low” program of subversive humor. The audiences of Haydn’s day loved the kinds of things he put into his music as do present-day listeners. Yehuda Hanani and colleagues will lead us through this night of musical comedy with their expert playing as well as comments. Call it a master class in musical humor.

Hagai Shaham and Xiao-Dong Wang, violin; Dov Scheindlin, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cell

Troika à la Russe—Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Scriabin

Saturday, March 23, 6 PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks (“adventurous and passionate”— The New Yorker) and Yehuda Hanani present a program rich in Russian lore, Slavic emotionalism, Soviet-era sarcasm, and dazzling virtuosity: the cello/piano sonatas by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, which pianist Sviatoslav Richter considered the most difficult piece in the entire piano repertory. Rachmaninoff’s sonata is passionate and emotionally torrential, a survivor from the 19th century. Prokofiev, on the other hand, dubbed “bad boy of Russian music” by the establishment for his earlier avant-garde style, has written here a work that is mellow and reflective. Faliks will evoke Scriabin the mystic who believed he was the musical Messiah. It is music of ecstasy and visions. Faliks, who has appeared with Keith Lockhart, Leonard Slatkin and many of the world’s greatest orchestras, has been praised as a “high priestess of the piano, pianist of the highest order, as dramatic and subtle as a great stage actor.” The concert is a journey in Russian landscapes and into the Russian soul.

Inna Faliks, piano; Yehuda Hanani, cello

PRESTIGE PERFORMANCE: THE AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET

Saturday, April 13, 6 PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

The American Brass Quintet is peerless among brass ensembles, sculpting new repertoire and setting the artistic standards for the modern classical brass ensemble. With over sixty recordings and tours around the world many times over, they’ve made it their mission to treat both past and present with equal zeal. The Quintet evening begins with a staple of Romantic brass music—Victor Ewald’s Brass Quintet No. 2, from late 1800’s Russia. Common Heroes, Uncommon Land, a recent commission through the Juilliard School, where they have been in residence for three decades, is a work with an Americana sound by Philip Lasser requiring each player to recite poetry. Three Fantasies in Church Modes by Thomas Soltzer, a European priest and court musician, dates back to the 15th century. The night ends with Eric Ewazen’s engaging Frost Fire which evokes from the composer adjectives such as “gentle,” “mysterious,” “playful, sonorous and waltz-like” and “heroic and dynamic.” The New York Times has written that “among North American brass ensembles none is more venerable than the American Brass Quintet.” Prepare to be “blown” away!

Kevin Cobb and Louis Hanzlik. trumpet; Eric Reed, horn; Michael Powell, trombone; John Rojak, bass trombone

THE ART OF THE QUARTET—THE ESCHER STRING QUARTET

Saturday, May 18, 6PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

Acclaimed for musical insights and rare tonal beauty, and championed by the Emerson String Quartet, the Escher has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. They served as BBC New Generation Artists and gave debuts at the BBC Proms, are winners of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and perform as Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. For this program, they bring their special sheen to Mozart’s powerfully compelling String Quartet No. 23 in F major (third of the “Prussian Quartets” and to Samuel Barber’s spellbinding Adagio for Strings. They are joined by Yehuda Hanani for the incomparable Schubert Quintet, regarded as one of the greatest compositions in all of chamber music, other-worldly in its beauty and miraculous melodies.

“Clearly one of the finest quartets of their generation” —The Guardian

“Mr. Hanani was rightly rewarded with cheers from the audience.” —The New York Times

The Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Danbi Um, violin; Pierre La Pointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello, with Yehuda Hanani, cello

Like Father-in-Law, Like Son-in-Law: Antonin Dvořák and Josef Suk

Saturday, June 8, 6 PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

Tickets: $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine) and $27 (Balcony), Students $15

Nationalist composer Dvořák rose to fame in Prague, paving the way for his favorite student and later son-in-law Josef Suk. There was great closeness and spiritual kinship between them, and both were championed by Brahms (who confessed to envying Dvořák his melodic gifts!) Dvořák’s Rondo and Suk’s “Balada” and “Pisen Lasky” love song are rarely performed gems, and the more familiar Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major by Dvořák is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces in the form, along with those of Schumann and Brahms. In fact, Dvořák assimilated Brahms’ techniques and methods, while his exuberance, earthiness and the warmth of his sublime melodies ennoble Bohemian folklore. This program will transport listeners to those cobbled streets of the old town and back to an era when music served as the voice of the Czech people. An all-star ensemble of superb performers brings their extraordinary virtuosity and musicianship to this joyous and heart-warming repertoire.

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano; Irina Muresanu and Peter Zazofsky, violin; Michael Strauss, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello

In the Close Encounters With Music tradition, each performance is followed by an AFTERGLOW reception, with hors d’oeuvres and wine provided by local restaurants.

MORE THAN MUSIC:

Close Encounters With Music continues its listen and talk series, Conversations With… intimate and stimulating afternoons of music, literature and exchanges of ideas with notable performers, critics, authors, and cultural personages.

Reconsidering the Legacy of Haydn—Caryl Clark

Sunday, November 11, 3 PM

West Stockbridge Historical Society Old Town Hall, West Stockbridge MA

Tickets: $20 includes light refreshment

Is Haydn, Father of the symphony and the string quartet, the underappreciated Classical composer, a duller, rougher antecedent to Mozart and Beethoven? (The answer is “Hardly”!) Caryl Clark, Professor of Music History and Culture at the University of Toronto, will provide a window into the breadth and greatness of his oeuvres—his sacred music, comic operas, quartets and symphonies as well as the changing social, cultural, and political spheres in which he studied and worked. Take a virtual tour of his Burgenland and nearby western Hungary where the palace of Eszterháza is located. Author of Haydn’s Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and commissioning editor for the Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge University Press, 2005), she is currently writing a book on Haydn, Orpheus and the French Revolution, and co-edited the just published Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia. This talk complements our February Haydn concert.

Tamar Muskal—Composer, Songwriter, Fashionista

Sunday, April 28, 3 PM

Casana T-House, Hillsdale, NY

Tickets: $20 includes light refreshment

Undaunted by new forms or new frontiers, Tamar Muskal has written everything from pop songs to symphonies to her new opera-in-progress, set in the world of high fashion, that tells the story of Diana Vreeland and Andre Leon Talley and examines the constant rises and falls of the industry. Her score for the historic, silent, film about the Mexican revolution, a song cycle commissioned by ASCAP and music for a documentary film about finding a cure for blindness (narrated by Robert Redford), exemplify the diverse material and platforms she uses. Her work “The Yellow Wind,” based on the novel by Israeli author David Grossman, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Muskal has been the recipient of many other awards from institutions such as ASCAP, Meet-the-Composer, American Music Center and the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, with commissions from the 92nd Street Y and the Library of Congress as well as from orchestras and ensembles—including Close Encounters With Music!

Close Encounters on the Radio/Podcast

Close Encounters With Music concerts are broadcast on WMHT-FM, and audiences are encouraged to tune in to the new weekly broadcasts of “Classical Music According to Yehuda” on WAMC Northeast Radio or visit www.wamc.org for over 200 podcasts.

ABOUT CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC

Close Encounters With Music stands at the intersection of music, art and the vast richness of Western culture. Entertaining, erudite and lively commentary from founder and Artistic Director Yehuda Hanani puts the composers and their times in perspective to enrich and enlighten the concert experience. Since the inception of its Commissioning Project in 2001, CEWM has worked with the most distinguished composers of our time—Joan Tower, Judith Zaimont, Lera Auerbach, Robert Beaser, Kenji Bunch, Osvaldo Golijov, John Musto, and Paul Schoenfield among others—to create important new works that have already taken their place in the chamber music canon and on CD. A core of brilliant performers includes: pianists, Roman Rabinovich, Soyeon Kate Lee, Walter Ponce and Jeffrey Swann; violinists,Shmuel Ashkenasi, Vadim Gluzman, Julian Rachlin, Peter Zazofsky, Itamar Zorman and Erin Keefe; clarinetists Alexander Fiterstein and Charles Neidich; vocalists Dawn Upshaw, Jennifer Rivera, Danielle Talamantes and Kelley O’Connor; the Muir, Manhattan, Ariel, Vermeer, Escher, Avalon, Hugo Wolf, Dover string quartets; and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and guitarist Eliot Fisk. Choreographer David Parsons and actors Richard Chamberlain, Jane Alexander and Sigourney Weaver have also appeared as guests, weaving narration and dance into the fabric of the programs. Close Encounters With Music programs have been presented in cities across the U.S. and Canada—Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Omaha, Cincinnati, Calgary, Detroit, at the Frick Collection and Merkin Hall in New York City, at The Clark in Williamstown, at Tanglewood and in Great Barrington, MA, as well as in Scottsdale, AZ. Summer performances have taken place at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. This year, the High Peaks Festival moved to the Berkshires to the Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA, where it has continued as the educational mission of Close Encounters With Music with fifty international students in residence for an immersive course of study and performance.

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets, $50 (Orchestra and Mezzanine), $27 (Balcony) and $15 for students, are available at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center box office, 413.528.0100. Subscriptions are $250 ($225 for seniors) for the series of 7 concerts. Tickets are available for purchase at www.mahaiwe.org. Season subscriptions are available on our website, www.cewm.org.

2018-2019 CALENDAR

Saturday, October 13, 6 PM, The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center A ROSSINI EXTRAVAGANZA!

Saturday, December 8, 6 PM, The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center MOZART AND SCHUBERT–MARZIPAN AND THE “TROUT”

Saturday, February 23, 6 PM, Saint James Place HAYDN SEEK–DISCOVERING THE HUMOR AND WIT IN PAPA HAYDN

Saturday, March 23, 6 PM, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center RUSSIAN TROIKA–PROKOFIEV, RACHMANINOFF AND STRAVINSKY

Saturday, April 13, 6 PM, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center THE AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET

Saturday, May 18, 6 PM, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center THE ESCHER QUARTET–BARBER, MOZART, SCHUBERT QUINTET

Saturday, June 8, 6 PM, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center GALA: LIKE FATHER-IN-LAW, LIKE SON-IN-LAW– ANTONIN DVORAK AND JOSEF SUK

Conversations With…

Sunday, November 11, 3 PM, West Stockbridge Historical Society Old Town Hall

RECONSIDERING THE LEGACY OF HADYN

Sunday, April 28, 3 PM, Casana T-House

TAMAR MUSKAL—COMPOSER, SONGWRITER, FASHIONISTA

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is at 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA.

Saint James Place is at 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA.

A reception with light refreshments follows each concert December through May. Patrons and subscribers are invited to a pre-concert Rossini-themed reception on October 13.

“Great music played with great heart… There’s a palpable mystique about Close Encounters concerts. The evening never failed to fascinate!…” –The Berkshire Eagle

“The Berkshires are home to distinguished cultural events, but none so brilliant, perhaps, as the chamber music series Close Encounters With Music.” —Berkshire Record

“…A stunning, majestic resolution, a brilliant ending to an unforgettable encounter with music. Bravi!” —The Berkshire Edge

“RESCUING NEGLECTED COMPOSERS: Mr. Hanani’s rich tone and thoughtful phrasing made a powerful case for it [Eduard Franck Sonata for Cello and Piano] in a performance that had a convincing subtext: The 19th-century cello repertory is not so vast that cellists (or their admirers) should neglect works this opulently lyrical….Soulful, fiery performance of Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2.”—New York Times

“STUNNER CLOSES SEASON! Though Hanani, Prutsman and Upshaw all performed with that rare combination of mutual understanding and technical finesse which makes for the most satisfying chamber music, Hanani deserves special recognition for his astute program choices.”—Albany Times Union

“The program provided stellar performances…played with passion and pathos…”—Arizona Republic

“…To experience the finest music ever written, presented by leading musicians of the day, in the inviting atmosphere of the Berkshires, is the best of all possible worlds. . . The quality of Lincoln Center with an intimacy that exceeds it….”

—Yehuda Hanani, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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jazzfunkdid · 7 years

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Mercury ‎– SRM-1-1141 - Released in 1977. Gabor Szabo ‎– Faces. Acoustic Guitar – Gabor Szabo. Backing Vocals – Cheryl "Boonie" Alexander, Deborah "Punkin'" Shotlow, Saundra "Pan" Alexander, Sylvia St. James. Bass – Nathaniel Phillips. Cello – David H. Speltz, Nathan Gershman. Drums – Bruce Carter. Electric Guitar – Marlon "The Magician" McClain. Electric Piano – Bobby "The Genie" Lyle. Percussion – Vance 'Mad Dog' Tenort. Synthesizer – Dean Gant. Tenor Saxophone – Ernie Watts. Trombone – George Bohannon. Trumpet – Danny Christianson, Oscar Brashear. Viola – James Dunham, Janet Lakatos. Violin – Assa Drori, Bonnie Douglas, Carroll Stephens, Haim Shtrum, Irma Neumann, Irving Geller, Paul Shure, Robert Sushel.

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Annunciate le nominations agli Annie Awards, uno dei più importanti premi del cinema d’animazione, assegnati annualmente alle migliori produzioni cinematografiche che si sono distinte per originalità e creatività

Da quando gli Academy Awards hanno inserito la categoria miglior film d’animazione tra i premi della Notte degli Oscar, gli Annie Awards sono passati in secondo piano diventando però una sorta di anteprima degli Oscar.

Il vincitore degli Annie Awards quasi sempre conquista poi l’Oscar come miglior film d’animazione. Infatti su 25 edizioni (dal 1992) ben 11 volte il risultato è stato poi confermato dagli Academy Awards: Shrek, La città incantata, Alla ricerca di Nemo, Gli Incredibili, Wallace e Gromit, Ratatouille, Up, Rango, Frozen, Inside Out, Zootropolis. Tenenendo bene a mente che la categoria del miglior film d’animazione è stata introdotta solo nel 2002 (per un totale di 15 edizioni) e quindi solo 4 volte gli Annie Awards non hanno predetto il verdetto degli Oscar.

Non a caso quest’anno il maggior numero di nominations agli Annie Awards le ha conquistate il film favorito agli Oscar 2018, Coco (Pixar Studios) che si è aggiudicato ben 13 nomination, dopo aver già vinto l’Hollywood Film Award, il National Board of Review e convinto i critici di New York.

Segue con ben 10 nomination il film d’animazione The Breadwinner prodotto da Angelina Jolie. La forza di questa pellicola è sicuramente nella sua trama potente raccontata attraverso un stile semplice ed essenziale. Sicuramente sarà una delle sorprese dell’anno, anche in virtù del suo impianto narrativo. Infatti la storia è ambientata a Kabul, in Afghanistan, durante il dominio dei talebani. La protagonista è Parvana e lavora al mercato locale leggendo lettere a coloro che non sanno leggere. Pur di dare sostengo alla sua famiglia, la piccola si finge un ragazzo in modo da poter lavorare. Infatti la parola che dà il titolo al film, “breadwinner”, significa “colui o colei che procura il pane per la famiglia”. The Breadwinner‘ è l’adattamento dell’omonimo romanzo della scrittrice canadese Deborah Ellis e pubblicato in Italia con il titolo ‘Sotto il burqa’.

Segue con 6 nomination Baby Boss che ha ribaltato le previsioni superando teste di serie come Cars 3 (2 nominations), Cattivissimo 3 e Capitan Mutanda (3 nominations). Inoltre snobbati nella categoria miglior pellicola d’animazione Ferdinand che si è dovuto accontentare di solo 2 nomination e The Lego Batman Movie che ha conquistato solo 3 nomination, dati come favoriti per ottenere una nomination agli Oscar 2018.

Purtroppo non ha ottenuto alcuna nomination la pellicola d’animazione Le jeune fille sans mains, considerata una delle grandi sorprese di Cannes 2016 completamente disegnata a mano da Sébastien Laudenbach, che prima di queste nomination era data favorita per entrare nella short-list degli Academy Awards dopo il suo grande successo internazionale.

Delusione anche per Loving Vincent che meritava una maggior attenzione da parte dei membri degli Annie Awards, considerato dagli addetti del settore il film d’animazione rivelazione dell’anno per via della sua innovativa tecnica. Infatti si tratta della prima pellicola animata interamente dipinta su tela, creata rielaborando oltre mille dipinti per un totale di più di 65 000 fotogrammi realizzati da 125 artisti di ogni parte del mondo. Loving Vincent pur avendo conquistato la nomination per il miglior film d’animazione indipendente ha però ottenuto solo 3 nomination

Ecco di seguito la lista di tutte le nominations agli Annie Awards:

Best Animated Feature

“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” DreamWorks Animation

“Cars 3″ Pixar Animation Studios

“Coco” Pixar Animation Studios

“Despicable Me 3″ Illumination

“The Boss Baby” DreamWorks Animation

Best Animated Feature-Independent

“In This Corner of the World” Taro Maki, GENCO, Inc. and Masao Maruyama, MAPPA Co., Ltd

“Loving Vincent” BreakThru Films, Production Company Trademark Films, Co-Production Company

“Napping Princess” Nippon TV

“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” Folivari/Panique!/Studiocanal

“The Breadwinner” Cartoon Saloon/Aircraft Pictures/Melusine Productions

Animated Effects in an Animated Production

“Avatar Flight of Passage” VFX Supervisor: Thrain Shadbolt Sr.; Richard Baneham; Compositing Supervisor: Sam Cole; CG Supervisor: Pavani Rao Boddapati; Daniele Tosti

“Cars 3” Development & Effects Artist: Amit Baadkar; Effects Lead: Greg Gladstone; Stephen Marshall; Tim Speltz; Effects Supervisor: Jon Reisch

“Coco” Effects Artist: Shaun Galinak; Jason Johnston; Carl Kaphan; Effects Lead: Dave Hale; Keith Daniel Klohn

“Despicable Me 3” Computer Graphics Supervisor: Bruno Chauffard; Frank Baradat; Lighting & Compositing Supervisor: Nicolas Brack; Effects Supervisor: Milo Riccarand

“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” Head of Effects: Christopher Hendryx; Effects Animator: Dan Lund; Mike Navarro; Hiroaki Narita; Steven Chitwood

Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Animator: John Chun Chiu Lee (Character: All characters)

“Coco” Animator: Allison Rutland (Character: All characters)

“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” Animator: Marco Nguyen (Character: all characters in scene); Directing Animator: Benjamin Renner (Character: all characters in scene); Supervising Animator: Patrick Imbert (Character: all characters in scene)

“The Boss Baby” Animation Supervisor: Bryce McGovern (Character: various)

“The Boss Baby” Animation Supervisor: Rani Naamani (Character: various)

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Character Art Director: Daniel Arriaga (Character: All characters); Additional Character Art Direction: Daniela Strijleva (Character: All characters); Character Design/Sculptor: Greg Dykstra (Character: All characters); Character Modeller: Alonso Martinez (Character: All characters); Character Designer: Zaruhi Galstyan (Character: All characters)

“Despicable Me 3” Character Designer: Eric Guillon (Character: All, Balthazar Bratt, Dru, Gru, Minions, Valerie Da Vinci, Gru’s Mom, Vincenzo, Freedonians)

“Smurfs: The Lost Village” Character Designer: Patrick Mate (Character: Multiple Characters)

“The Boss Baby” Character Designer: Joe Moshier (Character: Various)

“The Breadwinner” Character Design: Reza Riahi (Character: Story World Characters/Rough Design); Character Design: Louise Bagnall (Character: Story World Characters/Clean Character Design); Concept Artist/Character Texture Artist: Alice Dieudonné (Character: Story World Characters/Texture Design)

Directing in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Director: Lee Unkrich Pixar; Co-Director: Adrian Molina

“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” Co-Director: Benjamin Renner; Co-Director: Patrick Imbert

“The Boss Baby” Director: Tom McGrath

“The Breadwinner” Director: Nora Twomey

“The LEGO Batman Movie” Director: Chris McKay

Music in an Animated Feature Production

“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” Composer: Theodor Shapiro

“Coco” Composer: Michael Giacchino; Composer/Lyricist: Kristin Anderson-Lopez; Composer/Lyricist: Robert Lopez; Composer: Germaine Franco; Lyricist: Adrian Molina

“Loving Vincent” Composer: Clint Mansell

“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” Composer/Lyricist: Elyssa Samsel; Kate Anderson; Composer: Christophe Beck

“The Breadwinner” Composer: Mychael Danna; Jeff Danna

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Production Design: Harley Jessup; Danielle Feinberg; Bryn Imagire; Nathaniel McLaughlin; Ernesto Nemesio; Tom Cardone; Arden Chan

“Ferdinand” Production Design: Andrew Hickson; Mike Lee; Jason Sadler

“LEAP!” Production Design: Florent Masurel; Pierre-Antoine Moelo; Julien Meillard; Jean-Jacques Cournoyer

“Mary and The Witch’s Flower” Production Design: Tomotaka Kubo; Tomoya Imai; Satoko Nakamura

“The Breadwinner” Production Design: Ciaran Duffy; Julien Regnard; Daby Zainab Faidhi

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Storyboard Artist: Dean Kelly

“Coco” Storyboard Artist: Madeline Sharafian

“The Boss Baby” Storyboard Artist: Glenn Harmon

“The Breadwinner” Storyboard Artist: Julien Regnard

“The Star” Storyboard Artist: Louie del Carmen

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” Nick Kroll as Professor Poopypants

“Coco” Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel

“The Breadwinner “ Saara Chaudry as Parvana

“The Breadwinner” Laara Sadiq as Fattema

“The LEGO Batman Movie” Zach Galifianakis as Joker

Writing in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Writer: Adrian Molina; Matthew Aldrich

“Loving Vincent” Writer: Dorota Kobiela; Hugh Welchman; Jacek Dehnel

“Mary and The Witch’s Flower” Writer: Riko Sakaguchi; Hiromasa Yonebayashi; David Freedman; Lynda Freedman

“The Breadwinner” Writer: Anita Doron

Editorial in an Animated Feature Production

“Coco” Steve Bloom; Lee Unkrich; Greg Snyder; Tim Fox

“Ferdinand” Harry Hitner; Tim Nordquist

“The Breadwinner” Darragh Byrne

“The LEGO Batman Movie” David Burrows; Matt Villa; John Venzon

“The Star” Pamela Ziegenhagen

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