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Events Calendar
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New York, NY |
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Keynote presentation
"LIFE: The Unfolding Journey" |
October 22, 2007
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Helsinki, Finland |
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Keynote presentation
"LIFE: A Journey Through Time"
and photo seminar
"Every Picture Tells a Story"
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October 26, 2007 |
London, United Kingdom |
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Keynote presentation
"LIFE: The Unfolding Journey" |
November 2, 2007
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Vargarda, Sweden |
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A lecture presentation
"LIFE: A Journey Through Time" |
November 3, 2007 |
Genova, Italy |
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A multimedia orchestral performance
"LIFE: A Journey Through Time" |
November 4, 2007 |
Genova, Italy |
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A lecture presentation
"LIFE: A Journey Through Time" |
December 3, 2007 |
Los Angeles |
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EG Conference |
LIFE News
Life: A Journey Through Time, featured on NPR's Day to Day
SANTA CRUZ, CA, July 31, 2006. The National Public Radio show "Day to Day", hosted by Alex Chadwick, featured a segment on the multimedia orchestral premiere of Frans Lanting's "Life: A Journey Through Time," in Santa Cruz on July 29. The broadcast will also be archived on the "Day to Day" home page on the NPR web site.
To read the press release, please click here.
To LISTEN to Alex Chadwick's NPR interview, please click here.
To READ the Yahoo! story about Frans Lanting and LIFE, click here.
To VIEW images from the LIFE Music premiere, please click here.
To READ the Santa Cruz Sentinel editorial about the LIFE Music premiere, please click here.
To READ the San Jose Mercury News interview with Frans Lanting, please click here.
What the press is saying about Frans Lanting's LIFE:
"Renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting has unveiled a new project with an unexpected new partner -- acclaimed American composer Philip Glass. Their collaboration is "Life: A Journey Through Time," a multimedia presentation that's a feast for both the eyes and ears."
--Alex Chadwick, National Public Radio
"Frans Lanting is one of the world's foremost wildlife photographers, with a portfolio that stretches from Antarctica to Africa, diatoms to elephants... What distinguishes the Dutch-born photographer's work is not just his technical excellence--it's the idea behind the image, or more accurately the thinking behind a collection of images. He's the master of high-concept photography: finding the word or phrase or unifying idea around which the images orbit, not just illustrating the idea but amplifying it, demonstrating it...
 "Life: A Journey through Time" is Lanting's latest project, and it takes high concept to a still higher plane. This time he's joined forces with composer Philip Glass to create a multimedia concert experience that attempts to demonstrate the entire flow of life, from the big bang to the full flowering of life on Earth."
--Christian Kallen, Yahoo!
"..."Life: A Journey Through Time,'' is a multimedia creation story built around hundreds of images by the acclaimed nature photographer Frans Lanting and digitally matched to the lushly pulsing music of Philip Glass. Saturday night at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, the hourlong work received its world premiere and it worked. A high-tech charmer, it offers up gentle shock and awe, taking a romantic view of nature and the evolution of life.
In the world of Lanting and Glass, the eyes of frogs look like jewels in a Tiffany display case; lagoons glow iridescently; and all the while, the music lifts and swirls, as we are proffered images of life moving out of the sea, onto land, into the air, and so on. Music director Marin Alsop led the festival orchestra through a supple performance of Glass' insistent, pinwheeling, seven-part suite as Lanting's images (of Earth's crust and mystic volcanoes, trilobites and birds in flight, jellyfish and tortoises, apes and people) danced, almost literally, to the music, dissolving and morphing across a giant projection screen, 48 feet long and 13 feet high, above the players. I found "Life", which was commissioned by the festival, to be whimsical, fairly wondrous and lacking in pretension, happy to provoke pleasure.
Saturday's sold-out performance was a real event, with "bravos" ringing out before Alsop even lifted her baton.
--Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News
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