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A Composer’s Vision: A Lecture by Eric Johnson

A presentation by Eric Johnson, Cal Poly Professor Emeritus, on Ernest Bloch’s life, music, and photography, and his relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography. Concludes with a performance of Ernest Bloch’s From Jewish Life, featuring Susan Azaret Davies, piano.

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Ernest Bloch: A Composer’s Vision

Friday April 26, 2019 at 3 PM

Eric B. Johnson
H.P. Davidson Music Center, Rm 218
1 Grand Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

Free

A presentation by Eric Johnson, Cal Poly Professor Emeritus, on Ernest Bloch’s life, music, and photography, and his relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography. Concludes with a performance of Ernest Bloch’s From Jewish Life, featuring Andrew Davis, cello and Susan Azaret Davies, piano.

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Ernest Bloch: His Family’s Recollections and Stories Remembered

Saturday April 27, 2019 from 7 – 8 PM

Eric B. Johnson
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
1010 Broad Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Free

An informal discussion with Sita Milchev, granddaughter, Lucien Allen, great-granddaughter, and Eric Johnson about the life and times of Ernest Bloch, especially those years surrounding the composing of Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service). Hosted by Thomas Davis, music director and conductor of the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale.

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Concert featuring Ernest Bloch: Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service)

Sunday April 28, 2019 at 3 PM

Eric B. Johnson
Harold Miossi Hall, Performing Arts Center

The San Luis Obispo Master Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Davies, music director and conductor present Ernest Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh, commissioned by Temple Emanu-El of San Francisco in 1929. Baritone Gregg Haueter sings the role of Cantor. Rabbi Janice Mehring, Congregation Our Tzafon, Atascadero, is featured as the minister.

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Milken Archive of Jewish Music featuring Ernest Bloch’s photographs

Eric Johnson recently collaborated providing Ernest Bloch’s photographs for a video done by the Milken Archive of Jewish Music

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Artist Talk at Art After Dark

Saturday February 6, 2016 from 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Gargoyle Detail

Eric B. Johnson Talks About:

Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the Interior

Studios on the Park
1130 Pine Street
Paso Robles, CA 93446

Front Office: 805.238.9800

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Shrines & Altars at Studios on the Park

Exhibition Opening Saturday January 2, 2016 6-9PM:

detail of home is where the heart is

Eric B. Johnson

Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the Interior

Studios on the Park
1130 Pine Street
Paso Robles, CA 93446

Front Office: 805.238.9800

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Under the Influence: Responses to Place

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Selections from my Abandoned Highway series are included in the exhibition “Under the Influence: Responses to Place” at the Betteravia Gallery in Santa Maria, CA.  Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Arts Commission and curated by Kam Jacoby and Karen Gearhart-Nelson. Opening September 11 from 4-6PM at the Betteravia Gallery then again at the Peake Gallery in Santa Barbara in February 2015.

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Ernest Bloch and Alfred Stieglitz: A Sunday Morning Conversion


MSS-Number Four, Dec. 1922
MSS-Number Four, Dec. 1922

Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs

In January 1922 Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), generally considered the father of American photography, suggested the December issue of the publication “MSS” be devoted to asking the question: “Can A Photograph Have The Significance Of Art.”  Over 40 luminaries in the arts were invited to send letters in response to the question. Among those who responded were Marcel Duchamp, Carl Sandberg, Georgia O’Keefe, Waldo Frank and the composer Ernest Bloch.

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Ernest Bloch Lecture

L to R: Eric Johnson, Pencho Dimitroff, Pencho’s son, wife & daughter, Joni Metolius, Judy Boffo, Ernest Bloch II and Sita Milcev
L to R: Eric Johnson, Pencho Dimitroff, Pencho’s son, wife & daughter,
Joni Metolius, Judy Boffo, Ernest Bloch II and Sita Milcev

The Jewish Community Library in San Francisco hosted a lecture by Eric Johnson on Ernest Bloch’s photography on May 8, 2012. The lecture was a rare occasion when Bloch’s direct decendants were in attendance including his four grandchildren Ernest Bloch II, Joni Metolius, Sita Milcev and Pencho Dimitroff along with Pencho’s son and wife and daughter.

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Shrines & Altars Exhibition

gargoyle 4x6A selection from the series Shrines & Altars was exhibited at the Artists Alley in San Francisco! Galiara on the Web, The Artists Alley is located at 863 Mission between 4th & 5th across Bloomingdales Mall.

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Framing a Vision of the World at the Oregon Jewish Museum

Oregon Jewish Musuem in Portland
Oregon Jewish Musuem in Portland
January – May 2011

A major exhibit of prints made by Eric Johnson from Ernest Bloch’s negatives was mounted at the Oregon Jewish Musuem in Portland in 2011. Including 40 prints made in 1974-75 from negatives dating from 1897-1955, the show is by far the most extensive survey of Bloch’s photographic work. See the installation here.


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Book of Bloch’s Photography

Mushroom Lady, Satigny Switzerland, 1912
Mushroom Lady, Satigny Switzerland, 1912

Associated with the exhibit Johnson produced a book surveying Bloch’s photography. The first published survey including 80 of Bloch’s photographs,

“A Composer’s Vision: The Photographs of Ernest Bloch” is available to purchase at Blurb.

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Shrines & Altars at the Steynberg Gallery

“Shrines & Altars” at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo, Nov. 2009

A major presentation of the “Shrines & Altars” series took place in November 2009 at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo. Eighteen 24”x36” archival pigment prints were on display.

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Eric Johnson’s prints from Ernest Bloch’s negatives donated to the Library of Congress!

In June of 2009 Eric traveled to Washington DC to donate prints he made from Bloch’s negatives in the 1970’s to the Library of Congress. A collection of 102 prints covering 45 years of Bloch’s life were donated to the Music Division. This collection is the largest Bloch archive and this donation added significantly to the quality and depth of the LOC collection.

See a blog from the Music Division: “Remembering Ernest Bloch.”

Eric with Jan Lauridsen, Asst. Chief of the Music Division and Staff looking over the donation of photographs in June 2009. These prints were made by Eric Johnson in the 1970’s from Bloch’s negatives
Eric with Jan Lauridsen, Asst. Chief of the Music Division and Staff looking over the donation of photographs in June 2009. These prints were made by Eric Johnson in the 1970’s from Bloch’s negatives
Library of Congress Staff viewing the Ernest Bloch prints.
Library of Congress Staff viewing the Ernest Bloch prints.

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Exhibitions

Artist Talk at Art After Dark

Saturday February 6, 2016 from 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Eric B. Johnson Talks About: Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the … [Read More...]

Shrines & Altars at Studios on the Park

Exhibition Opening Saturday January 2, 2016 6-9PM: Eric B. Johnson Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the Interior Studios … [Read More...]

Under the Influence: Responses to Place

Selections from my Abandoned Highway series are included in the exhibition “Under the Influence: Responses to Place” at the Betteravia … [Read More...]

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