Meintest du essen?
Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river paintings. Ho responds to Voyage of Life with an original suite. Starting with simple harmonies to represent childhood, he gradually introduces complexity.
So there’s really nothing else I’ve ever aspired to be.
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But something else entirely has caught his attention – the skeleton entering the
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s Death and the Miser and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
This episode of Sound Thoughts on Art is a little different from everything else
In an improvised musical conversation, jazz bassist Christian McBride introduces himself to David. Connecting over McBride’s walking bass line, they meet David’s friends, splash by the fire hydrant, play stickball. Through David, McBride recalls his own childlike innocence.
And they’re just as surprised as everyone else, like, wow, I didn’t think that
Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer describes the East Building as a work of art that does what music does: invites you in—to inhabit, explore, and be among others. He responds with pieces that balance pattern and structure with leaving room to wander.
out into the world without you, like whether it’s setting it down for someone else
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture pain, legacy, enduring hope—and the rhythm of the subject’s life.
that contradicts the symbolism of freedom, and it makes it stand for something else
In Sand Dipper, jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time.Â
supposed to be Apollo and Artemis, and then there’s some sort of figure of something else
speculated that it might be a work completed by the artist Philippe Mercier or else
Composer Nathalie Joachim sees her childhood memories in May Flowers. The photograph also evokes the uniquely spiritual experience of recording a church choir in her family’s Haitian village. Joachim has lovingly woven their song into her composition.
anyway, it seems the sun shines in quite a different way there than it does anywhere else
Was not worried about the Place upset by equipment or loss of quality or anything else
