Synesthesia

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

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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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