Attn: Amanda Bumgarner
Photos for Choral Journal to accompany Vivaldi "discovery" story idea
All photos by Miles Fish

For rapid slideshow, click on "Play" upper left of large photo  
OR  click on individual thumbnails below  photos
____________________________________________
National Library of Italy, Turin, Italy
Home of the "discovered" Vivaldi autograph manuscripts
27 volumes containing 92% of Vivaldi’s known works
450 in total – including 300 concertos and 20 operas (14 are complete) 

_________________________________________________________________
BELOW: Accademia Chigiana Music Conservatory Library, Siena, Italy
1939 Vivaldi Week Concerts Documents and Music Manuscripts
Including copies of Dresden Vivaldi manuscripts (the originals were later damaged in the WWII Dresden fire bombings)
The Dresden copies were obtained by Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge and brought to Siena

__________________________________________________________________
BELOW:  Saxony Library (SLUB), Dresden, Germany
Largest collection of Vivaldi autograph manuscripts outside of Italy
(NOTE: the Dixit is a Vivaldi manuscript discovered at the SLUB in 2005--it was forged after Vivalid's death)
_____________________________________________________________________
BELOW:  Vivaldi's Venice
His Christening Church, Ordination Church and the Pieta including the stairs he climbed to work for 30 years
___________________________________________________
BELOW:  Amsterdam
The remaining front shell of the concert hall where Vivaldi conducted his last major gig:
It was the opening concert for the 100th Anniversary of Amsterdam's Schouwburg Theater
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________

Contact Info:
Miles Fish
milesfish@mac.com
Office:  479-619-2237
Cell:  479-366-3331
Professor of Music, Northwest Arkansas Community College
One College Drive, Bentonville, AR 72712
__________________________