Synesthesia

Published: May 11, 2014, 3 a.m.

Scriabin so linked color to his music that he created a \u201clight organ\u201d  to display colors that corresponded to different notes in his pieces.   How does color and visual art affect composers and their music today?

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Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music for Orchestra
\n Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Zinman

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Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel
\n California EAR Unit

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Jennifer Higdon: Short Stories for Saxophone Quartet, I & V
\n Ancia Saxophone Quartet

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Dan Welcher: Light Coming on the Plains & Starlight Night from Prairie Light: 3
\n\tTexas Watercolors of Georgia O\u2019Keefe
\n Honolulu Symphony Orchestra/Johanos

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Gunther Schuller: The Twittering Machine fr. Seven Studies on Themes of Paul \tKlee
\nMinneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

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Cindy McTee: Twittering Machine
\n North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon

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Stephen Hartke: King of the Sun, I & IV
\nDunsmuir Piano Quartet
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