by
Blair Lovern
The Dallas Museum of Art, as usual, puts on a great Late Night series. Check out the photos and videos from this past Friday. For example, I must confess I did not know precisely what a vibraphone was. Is it a xylophone? No. Is it a glockenspiel? No. Is it a marimba? No. Is it a - oh, please just shut up. Anyway, Ed Smith - on the music staff at SMU and who teaches vibraphone at the University of North Texas - explains very well in the video below what it is.
Ed Smith explains what the heck a vibraphone is
Smith played for about an hour Friday (I noticed the countenances of several portraits who were as mesmerized as I was), including this version of "When You Wish Upon A Star".
Ed Smith plays "When You Wish Upon A Star," vibraphone-style
Starting the night at the Atrium Cafe was Shanghai 5, and you can sample them here:
Late Night at the DMA with Shanghai 5
Finally, below are a few photos from the night.
S5's Reid Robinson lookin' seersucker suave at the keyboard.
S5's Bill Longhorse on guitar, Earl Darling on drums and whoa! - I don't know who he is, but it appears as if the dude in the background hopped right out of a Terminator movie. Look how determined he is trying to assassinate the mother of the yet unborn John Connor. Rarely has such raw emotion from a cyborg been captured by modern photography.
S5's Gregg Prickett on bass and the prismatic Amy Curnow.
Dude I don't know gazing at the waterfall in the DMA sculpture garden.
My father-in-law points out in this modern painting to my wife, Liz, what he sees as a sheep with a long, pointy tassled nightcap on its head (circa whenever Charles Dickens wrote his stories, which I'm not going to precisely look up right this second. Let's say 1841-ish.) I have circled the alleged sheep in red. And in blue I have circled the part of the painting which I think is crap. Look, I love the DMA and many of its treasures. But the modern room there and/or at any other museum is not my cup of tea and/or Dr Pepper, since I don't like tea either.
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