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- This short, musical film recounts the construction chronology of New York City's magnificent Central Park, 1857 - 1873. It incorporates nineteenth century images contrasted with time travel images of the twenty-first century. Central Park is the man-made masterpiece conceived by superb landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, and his inspiring partner, Calvert Vaux. The short reveals they had won a city contest for the best park design. Original, embedded paintings feature workers pitching and toiling over sixteen years of creation. Also disclosed is the fact that ten million patrons visited the park in its official, inaugural year, 1873. Today the park remains an open-air haven for multiple species of animals, plus billions of international patrons of all different cultures, races, disabilities and abilities - everyone who delights in its splendor. This time travel, musical theatre orchestration is sung by a charming tenor playing Olmsted with evocative American Sign Language that enlivens his song. It is from a play in the rotating repertory of Theatre in Motion, located in the New York City/New Jersey area. This short was a part of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' International Digital Arts Festival, "Forty Days Around the World."
- This short features breathtaking, time-travel panoramas of New York City's splendid Central Park, designed by the genius, nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. Since the 1800s, Central Park has been an outdoor home to a plethora of animals, as well as billions of people of all races, colors, nationalities, abilities and disabilities - anyone who simply enjoys its beauty. All take pleasure in this remarkable, man-made topography, created by Olmsted with his landscape partner, Calvert Vaux. Indeed, the remarkable, pastoral and picturesque beauty is most splendidly presented. The short also showcases original musical theatre sung by a lyric tenor with symphonic accompaniment and American Sign Language. Honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, it emanates from an original Off Broadway production of Theatre in Motion of the New York City/New Jersey area, featuring creative and performing artists with and without disabilities.
- ''Song of the Land'' with American Sign Language is a short time travel film, which is actually a unique music video that encapsulates the years 1857 - 2013 and features an original musical theatre score, sung by a lyric tenor playing the nineteenth century genius, Frederick Law Olmsted, historically known as "The Father of American Landscape Architecture." His inclusive philosophy of democracy through naturalistic Landscape as Art is showcased via pastoral and picturesque montages of his man-made vista, New York City's Central Park. This gorgeously portrayed, garden masterpiece has long been galvanizing by virtue of including all populations, embracing multi-ethnic patrons with and without multiple disabilities, serving as a resplendent, role-model ecosphere.