It all began with an invitation by Daniel Salontay, not much unlike this one:
It was to a one-off concert collaboration during the renowned Slovak classical music festival Konvergencie, with its director Jozef Lupták playing the cello as a one part of a string quartet, with the string section arranged and composed by Slavo Solovic, an old friend of Longital and Slnko records, now also famous for his work with Korben Dallas (Symphony + Sen), Sendreiovci (Le Orchestroha) and others.
It all started in 2005, when Longital won the Tatrabanka Prize for Art and Slavo Solovic was asked to compose and conduct a full orchestra rendition of one of Longital's song Zlatá (My dear). The performance was amazing, but too grandiose to repeat elsewhere, the band had decided. See for yourselves:
Now, ten years later, after performing with a vibraphonist Stroon in 2013 and after another one-off concert with an old flame of the band, drummer Marián Slávka, which led to them doing most of their concerts in the past year together (like this one just a few days before in Banská Štiavnica), they were ready once again to up their game, with four more musicians on stage.
For me, the invitation was not only to the concert but also to the rehearsal, where I made a lot of shots of the suita rehearsing together in a lovely, sun lit space on top of the city theatre. This led to another photo invitation, this time in a video form, using animoto:
I was also lucky enough to be a part of the general rehearsal, where I had enough space to take close ups off the performers, and other shots I would not be able to take later at the concert.
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And continued later in a day with the evening performance itself, where my wife Nadja, having a birthday that day tested a new Sony A7 camera (to a great result, as you can see from the first pictures in the slideshow, which are hers:
I would have lied if I said there were no other photographers - in fact two, plus a camera crew. But it is the video made by one of them, Martina Mlcuchova, that I want to share with you, for its raw energy:
And that is all? (A to je všetko?)
Or is it? To be continued...
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| From 2015-09-10 Longital Suita otvárala Konvergencie |
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