Let the Sun Shine In

They're finishing "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In." It was glorious fun, as you can see.

Nature photography is fun, but people are such interesting -and willing-- subjects. I personally don't understand how journalists and documentarists deal with their subjects, and their subjects' possible desire for privacy or anonymity, but that's fine because I really like shooting rehearsals and performances. You know, where the people being photographed really want to be seen and remembered.

This was taken at the first annual Follies concert, Phil's choir program's pops concert. I'd try to describe it, but words fail: vaudeville? revue? Almost Moulin Rouge! without the hookers or the TB: fast moving, upbeat and funny but with a couple of serious turns for the sake of variety. No host, no emcee- after a brief introduction, the curtain opened to them singing and only closed for intermission until the show ended; when a song finished, the lights faded for a second or two (really) and came back up on a new act, ready to sing. It was really spectacular, and quite professional-looking. I got a bunch of good pictures, which I'll be posting over the next few days.

Today is Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach's birthday (1714).

In 1782, ninety-six Native Americans were murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen –with mallets- at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in what became known as the Gnadenhutten Massacre.

And in 1917, the February Revolution began in St. Petersburg (it was February by the Old Calendar in use in Russia at the time), sparked by food shortages. Tsar Nicholas II turned the throne over to his more moderate brother Michael a week later. Michael wisely refused, but oversaw the assembly of the Provisional Government, initially led by Prince George Lvov, and later (after the tumultuous July Days) a liberal aristocrat, Alexander Kerensky. By October, Kerensky's government would fall to the Bolsheviks.