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