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Interview given to &#;Bergens Tidende&#; 21 5 15

Ole Bull, in the s (Carte-de-viste). Holding a Grand pattern Amati, which may be the &#;Pearl&#;

Journalist-Mari Stephan

You have been studying Ole Bull for some time. How did it all start? And how have you been working on this project?
My interest in Ole Bull, began 9 years ago, when I was giving a lot of performances of music by Niccolo Paganini and his contemporaries, This involved concerts and research in Italy, the USA and the UK. I was given the very rare opportunity to play Paganini&#;s violin in Genoa, and later in London. I got more and more interested in Ole Bull during this period, especially as my wife, the writer Malene Skaerved, was researching H C Andersen letters and journals, where Bull appears a lot. So I started thinking about Bull, as an ideal figure for me as a musician. Then, five years ago, at a party in Denmark, my old friend Anders Beyer had the inspiration to hand me a biography of Bull from his bookshelf. I was hooked! So then he came to Bergen and that opened the possibility to work with the wonderful experts at Lysoen, and the museums and Libraries in Bergen. This led to concerts last year at the Festival, recreating the &#;salon&#; atmosphere of Bull&#;s more intimate concerts.

What fasc

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One Hundredth Outing Observed July August 1,

The Unreal Bull Neighbourhood in Fool with County

Potter County Historical Theatre company,

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The Tremont House, the grand hotel where Ole Bull had stayed during his winter concert tour of , was gone. The fire advanced with such unimaginable intensity that it consumed entire city blocks leaving nothing but masonry and rubble. The area which suffered the most was in the center of Chicago, where the court house, city offices, businesses, hotels, and theaters were located.
A number of photographers produced stereoscopic photos which used a double lens camera that made two images. When viewed through a special holder that separated the double-sided photograph for each eye, an illusion of depth was created. Here I've shown only the left side of a stereo photograph of what remained of the Sherman House, another grand hotel two blocks west of the Tremont, after the Great Fire of Soon even grainy photos of the disaster became a popular souvenir of Chicago.
One block diagonally southeast from the Tremont was the majestic six-story Field, Leiter & Co., a dry goods store located on Drake's block at the corner of State and Washington. The fire reduced it to a smoldering ruin. Likewise one block down on State St, the Bookseller's Row building, where the Western News Company had its business, was now transformed into a grim skeleton of the once impressive edifice.
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