Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Cool Keys In The City ...

“The only truth is music.”

    ~ Jack Kerouac

    ~ 1922-1969

The new Public Piano waits to be played along the new SouthSide Urban Arts Trail Nov. 8, 2020 at Third and Fillmore Streets, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Anyone is welcome to sit down and tickle the ivories or listen to the music that weaves into the street rhythm of South Side Bethlehem.

The piano features the art of local artist Christopher Colon and is sponsored by The Lehigh Valley Chamber Main Street Foundation, Northampton Community College Fowler Family SouthSide Center, the SouthSide Arts District Design Committee and Wegmans Food Markets.

The project was a venture of the SouthSide Arts District, an initiative of the Bethlehem Economic Development Corporation.

A sign of the times in the age of COVID-19, a spray bottle of hand sanitizer sits atop the piano.

A street piano is a piano placed in a public area that encourages passersby to stop and play.


 

Monday, December 21, 2015

In The Key Of Cool ...



"Hot can be cool, and cool can be hot, and each can be both.
But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz."

                                       ~ Louis Armstrong
                                                   ~ 1901-1971 

 

Silhouetted hands bring a hot jazz number
to a crescendo in the key of cool in this image,
a portion of a jazzy mural in Easton, Pennsylvania
that I shot on a chilly November day. This is my
artistic interpretation of the mural image. 
 


I captured this cool mural of jazz silhouettes of musicians on the façade of the Hotel Lafayette as they literally paint the town. The mural features the shadows of musicians on keyboard, saxophone, trumpet and other jazz instruments against bright colors.



The mural is an Easton Main Street Initiative public art project created in 2012. It is a gift of the Easton Rotary Service Foundation in memory of Ted Pierce, who was the station manager of WEST radio, an outstanding and devoted citizen. He was a generous benefactor of the Easton community and Easton Rotary Service Foundation, as well as an exemplary journalist and key reporter on the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial for the Armed Forces Network. Pierce left a large amount of money for the Rotary Club to use on Easton-based projects.

           

The mural was designed and painted on the Fourth Street side of the building by the Freehand Mural Group of Easton.