Synesthesia
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