Scriabin so linked color to his music that he created a “light organ” to display colors that corresponded to different notes in his pieces. How does color and visual art affect composers and their music today?
Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music for Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Zinman
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel
California EAR Unit
Jennifer Higdon: Short Stories for Saxophone Quartet, I & V
Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Dan Welcher: Light Coming on the Plains & Starlight Night from Prairie Light: 3
Texas Watercolors of Georgia O’Keefe
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra/Johanos
Gunther Schuller: The Twittering Machine fr. Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati
Cindy McTee: Twittering Machine
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Stephen Hartke: King of the Sun, I & IV
Dunsmuir Piano Quartet