{"id":413,"date":"2014-10-06T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:09:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:09:16","slug":"the-photogenic-dj-choupin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/2014\/10\/06\/the-photogenic-dj-choupin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photogenic DJ Choupin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make: \u00a0I am a HUGE fan of the discerning eye of DJ Choupin.\u00a0That is the\u00a0reason her work appears on the covers of all 7 roadkill opera-related books published in 2013. \u00a0Her work at Artomatic 2012 <\/a>is stellar. See djchoupin.com<\/a>\u00a0for more.<\/p>\n

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DJ Choupin’s “plain” <\/a>is one of her most popular–and enduring–works. It serves as the spine and back cover of the piano\/vocal score for A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The back cover to A Roadkill Opera: Piano\/Vocal<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DJ Choupin’s Columbia River “gourds” capture the light and the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DJ Choupin’s “boys” captures the mood of Yellowstone in winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DJ Choupin’s “zag” is her best-selling photo of a snowy landscape in Yellowstone National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had fancied myself a photographer at one point, so I felt I knew a superior talent when I saw DJ’s work.<\/p>\n

\"Self-portait<\/a>
Stephan Alexander Parker photographed\u00a0the cast of Good Times in the Country: Opryland USA on the Road in Branson, Missouri, in 1981. Self-portrait, above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was while working on mounting an exhibit of DJ’s photographs in Artomatic 2008<\/a>\u00a0or Artomatic 2007\u00a0<\/a>or Artomatic 2009<\/a>\u00a0–no, it was 2008–\u00a0that I found that Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora<\/em>\u00a0was being staged in London<\/a> and (at last) I would have an opportunity to get a copy of the score. \u00a0While the 200-year-old manuscript would eventually come into my hands in digital form, I was interested in a performance copy, updated for modern use.<\/p>\n

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The 1804 manuscript for Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately, the Bampton Opera production led to the creation of a modern score. But I digress…<\/p>\n

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DJ Choupin hawking If You See Roadkill, Think Opera<\/strong>, at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival. 22,000 people were estimated to attend the May 17 event. Note the viola cases book-ending the table display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DJ Choupin’s “flecked” serves as the cover of If You See Roadkill, Think Opera<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DJ Choupin in 1980s Jackson Hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks for everything, DJ–the best is yet to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make: \u00a0I am a HUGE fan of the discerning eye of DJ Choupin.\u00a0That is the\u00a0reason her work appears on the covers of all 7 roadkill opera-related books published in 2013. \u00a0Her work at Artomatic 2012 is stellar. See djchoupin.com\u00a0for more. I had fancied myself a photographer at one point, so … Continue reading The Photogenic DJ Choupin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}