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a golden decoration in the shape of an antique harp
May 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Our first trip to Oregon was in 2012. Our daughter was giving us a tour around Portland and we came upon this lunchtime entertainment in a park downtown. A person playing a grand piano is under the white canopy.

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May 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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A sneak peek at the rehearsals for Saturday's concert! It's going to be a great night, so if you're in Sheffield, do join us!

www.hopeenglishschool.org/springconcert
March 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Wondering what kind of music you might hear at next week's family concert? Well...

Get your ticket here: www.hopeenglishschool.org/springconcert
What time of music does the Steel City Concert Band play? * Skyfall * Puttin' On The Ritz * Nimrod * Duke Ellington in Concert * Doctor Who * Beyond the Sea * Pirates of the Caribbean * How To Train Your Dragon * Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat * The Great Escape
March 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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The Steel City Concert Band are led by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and conductor Sam Beagles.

What's he got in store for us at our Spring Concert? One way to find out: www.hopeenglishschool.org/springconcert
Sam's sheet music for an ABBA medley, for a previous show.
March 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Join us for a family concert to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

The Steel City Concert Band will be playing a special show at Cemetery Road Baptist Church on Saturday 21 March.

Get your tickets here: www.hopeenglishschool.org/springconcert
A graphic for the event: Family Concert Celebrating our 10th anniversary Featuring the Steel City Concert Band 7.30pm-9pm Saturday 21 March Cemetery Road Baptist Church, 11 Napier Street, Sheffield, S11 8HA
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
oakwoodfriends.org
Our Spring Concert filled the evening with beautiful music and heartfelt performances. Proud of our student musicians! #OakwoodFriendsSchool #SpringConcert #MusicEducation
June 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Imagine dancing underneath a ceiling like this. The ballroom at the Jacobean Knole House in Kent, the work of a Royal master plasterer who had worked on palaces for James I. The house was owned by the king’s Treasurer Thomas Sackville.
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The intricately designed plaster ceiling in the ballroom at Knole House in Kent. The room was originally a reception room when owned by the archbishops of Canterbury but when Thomas Sackville, Treasurer to the Crown, bought it in 1604 he remodelled it as a ballroom and commissioned the King’s master plasterer to design this ceiling, which incorporates his heraldic emblems such as the leopards that are ubiquitous at Knole. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
May 7, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Music Man. A portrait by Graham Sutherland of the 5th Lord Sackville, known as Eddy, hanging in his music room at the Jacobean Knole House in Kent.
A novelist and music cataloguer, Eddy entertained many musicians and artists at Knole.
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The oil on canvas portrait by renowned artist Graham Sutherland shows a man in a grey suit with open-necked white shirt seated in an upright chair, his hands clasped in front of him. The surrounding wall is painted ochre and a lamp illuminates the room to bottom right. A talented musician, ill health prevented him from pursuing life as a professional musician, but he became a respected music journalist, literary critic and novelist. A gay man at a time when it was very difficult to live openly in society, Eddy had a troubled life but he had many friends in the artistic world. During the war he provided rooms for the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent and his family after they were bombed out of their London home. His visitors book on display in the music room, includes the names of people such as LP Hartley, Aldous and Julian Huxley and EM Forster. *An interesting side note is that Sutherland painted a similar portrait of Winston Churchill, who lived nearby at Chartwell, in the same year (1954) but the war leader hated it so much that he burnt it. Eddy is said to have loved his own portrait. Camera: Canon EOS 400D digital 50mm lens manual focus.
May 7, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Sun Arbour at Sanssouci Palace
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The Sun Arbour is an elegant octagonal garden pavilion made of green-painted ironwork trellis (Treillage), commissioned by Frederick the Great around 1770 and positioned southeast of the Neues Palais. Gilded Musical Instruments & Festoons The pavilion's most distinctive decorative elements are the gilded copper festoons, ornamental swags and garlands depicting musical instruments, hammered by hand and mounted across the iron latticework. These festoons include representations of instruments such as lyres, horns, and other Baroque-era musical objects, reflecting Frederick the Great's own deep passion for music; he was himself a flutist who composed over 120 sonatas. Above each arched entrance hang golden radiating suns with face reliefs (Apollo/sun faces), freshly re-hammered in copper and re-gilded during a major restoration. The gilded Corinthian capitals on the pilasters and the golden starburst ornaments along the dome's rim frame the musical festoons in an overall celebratory, Rococo decorative scheme. The pavilion is a rare surviving example of 18th-century Treillage architecture in iron, where musical iconography directly references Frederick the Great's identity as the "Philosopher King" who valued the arts above all.
May 7, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Fanfaronade
Triumphal Gate of the Neues Palais in Park Sanssouci, Potsdam
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The two photographs show the Triumphal Gate of the Neues Palais in Park Sanssouci, Potsdam, built in 1769 (MDCCLXIX) to mark the completion of the palace following the Seven Years' War. Standing approximately 24 meters high, the gate connects two long colonnades to the palace's Communs buildings and serves as a monumental ceremonial entrance framed by Corinthian columns and richly decorated sandstone. At the very top of the gate's pediment, a densely populated sculptural group crowns the arch. Two allegorical figures of Fama (Fame) face outward in opposite directions, each raising a long straight herald's trumpet. In Baroque iconography, Fama is the goddess who spreads a ruler's glory to all corners of the world, and her attribute is always the fanfare trumpet, so the two figures together symbolize Frederick the Great's fame being proclaimed in every direction simultaneously. Between them sits the Prussian royal coat of arms, topped by a gilded crown at the very apex, anchoring the trumpet-bearing figures to the king's direct authority. This imagery is no accident: Frederick himself mockingly called the Neues Palais a "Fanfaronade", a French term for a boastful, trumpet-blaring show of bravado. The entire gate is therefore a built-in architectural pun, with real sculpted trumpets literally enacting the fanfare the name promises. Flanking warrior figures in helmets and allegorical virtues holding laurel garlands and shields complete the program, reinforcing themes of military victory, dynastic pride, and Prussian supremacy in post-war Europe. Looking carefully at the pediment sculpture group atop the Triumphtor, two long straight herald's trumpets are visible, one raised to the left and one to the right of the central royal coat of arms, each held aloft by an allegorical figure of Fama (Fame). In Baroque iconography, Fama is always depicted with a long fanfare trumpet, which she uses to "broadcast" the glory of the ruler to all corners of the world. The pairing of two trumpets is deliberately symmetrical and reinforces the gate's central message: this is a stereo proclamation of Prussian triumph. Together, the two Fama figures flank the crowned coat of arms and face outward in opposite directions, symbolizing Fame spreading Frederick the Great's glory both east and west, or more broadly, to all nations.
May 7, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Statue of a musician at the Chinese House in Sanssouci Park, in a fantasy “Chinese” robe, holding a drum beater and a tall ornamented staff, embodying 18th‑century Europe’s imagined vision of Chinese music and pageantry.
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Gilded musician figure at the Chinese House in Sanssouci Park: a life‑size chinoiserie statue in flowing, fantasy “Chinese” robes, turning slightly as if caught mid‑performance. In one hand the figure holds a short beater for a small drum, in the other a tall staff of stacked golden spheres like an elaborate ceremonial rattle. The wide pleated hat, scalloped capelet and embroidered apron are not authentic Chinese dress but an 18th‑century European daydream of the East, rendered in shimmering gold. Here, “China” becomes music and ornament for the Prussian court: a frozen baroque soundscape, imagined to accompany strolls among pavilions, palms and trellised gardens.
May 7, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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The Scholtze-Orgel in the St. Laurentius Church in Rheinsberg, Brandenburg. Story in the alt text.
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When Prince Henry of Prussia took residence at Rheinsberg Palace in 1752, he inherited a town already touched by royal ambition, his elder brother Frederick had briefly held court here before ascending the throne, but Henry made Rheinsberg truly his own. For decades he cultivated the palace and its surroundings as a centre of Enlightenment culture, drawing artists, writers, and musicians into his orbit and establishing Rheinsberg as a place where artistic excellence was not merely welcomed but expected. Music was central to his court life, and the town absorbed that sensibility deeply. It was in this atmosphere that the congregation of St. Laurentius resolved their church deserved an instrument worthy of its surroundings. In 1767, organ builder Gottlieb Scholtze from nearby Neuruppin completed the organ that still stands today. The result was breathtaking. Its white and pale-blue case rises toward the barrel vault of the west wall like a piece of palace architecture transposed into a house of God, gilded acanthus scrolls, sunburst rosettes, and symmetrical towers of gleaming silver pipes framing the space with unmistakable Baroque grandeur. At its base, a heart-shaped cartouche spells out a single word: Halleluja. Crowning the whole composition is a radiant gilded Eye of Providence, surrounded by golden rays, a reminder of who, ultimately, the music was for. Henry continued to hold court at Rheinsberg until his death in 1802, and the cultural world he so carefully nurtured left a permanent mark on the town. The Scholtze-Orgel is, in a sense, the congregation's own answer to the prince across the water, not built by royal command, but built unmistakably for the world he made.
May 7, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Hope to see you all tomorrow for an enchanting #SpringConcert in our favorite #PalacesAndGardens.
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May 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
sabineshutterbug.bsky.social
We all love music, don’t we? So I hope you will join Anna and me for #PalacesAndGardens this upcoming Thursday and share your musical photos with us in an enchanting #SpringConcert.
annalois36.bsky.social AnnaLois @annalois36.bsky.social · May 4
Join us this Thursday for #PalacesandGardens theme of #SpringConcert

We're embracing all things music at grand buildings and in fancy gardens this week - instruments, music for occasions, concert spaces, music in sculpture and portraiture etc.

Some exciting ideas below. Everyone welcome! #ECK
Poster announcement for this Thursday's #PalacesandGardens community theme day on Thursday 7 May 2026. The background is a warm sepia-toned photograph by AnnaLois (@annalois36.bsky.social), showing a large gilded sculpture of a young boy seated and playing a clarinet. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and elaborate period costume with ruffled collar and buckled shoes, and looks downward in concentration, entirely absorbed in the music. The warm golden tones of the bronze fill most of the image. The poster text is printed over the figure in dark navy blue. The theme is #SpringConcert, and four ideas are listed for participants to explore: instruments found in palace rooms; music written for specific political or celebratory occasions; portraits of musicians and patrons; and outdoor concert spaces such as garden pavilions and hedge theatres. The poster closes with "Everyone is welcome." and the community tag #ECK. The photographer's credit appears in smaller text along the bottom edge. Do join us if you've got a love of all things grand buildings and fancy gardens. The feed is a wonderful tour through periods of history, styles of architecture, garden design captured by a lovely bunch of enthusiasts! Everyone is welcome 😊
May 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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TONIGHT: Upcoming performances for the Spring 2025 Music Concert Series with Student Chamber Groups and the College Youth Symphony.

DATE: Wed, April 23, 2025
TIME: 5:00pm
LOCATION: Shepard Recital Hall

*TICKETS: t.e2ma.net/webview/7gex...

#sunynewpaltz #springconcert #ShepardHall
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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SPRING CONCERT: The Voices of Unity is hosting their annual Spring Concert on April 22, 2025!

*Take in musical sounds of New Paltz's multicultural gospel choir in Shephard Recital Hall! 🎶🎼🎶

LINK: sites.newpaltz.edu/news/wp-cont...

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April 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Roman amphitheater.
Villa Barberini gardens, Castel Gandolfo

Site of spring concerts and other Imperial events best left to the imagination.

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Ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater, showing remnants of the stone semi-circular seating area and the round stage area, now partially covered with grass.
May 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Le Faune Dansant.
Luxembourg Garden, Paris.

Now this guy knows how to party.

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A bronze statue of a faun dancing and playing a long musical pipe instrument.
May 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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A little marimba from Tequila Mexico to start your day. Happy #SpringConcert #humansofbluesky #ECK
May 7, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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This Friday's wonderful Spring Choral Concert at Southwark Cathedral will feature the Dulwich College Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Madrigal Choir and Chorus #SpringConcert #SouthwarkCathedral #DulwichCollege #CommunityConcert
March 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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For @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social #PalacesAndGardens #SpringConcert is here a inside view from the ConcertBuilding in Amsterdam in the pause from the Matthäus Passion.
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May 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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Bettendorf Community Band performs Spring Concert
Bettendorf Community Band performs Spring Concert
The City of Bettendorf announced the Bettendorf Community Band is holding its SpringConcert at the Waterfront Convention Center. According to a release, the concert is a free event that will includ…
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March 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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From baseball to spring concerts to art show. It is definitely May! But got some stitching in despite the 🥶 🧶
#stitcheverydayinmay #kidssports #springconcert #onthego
May 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM