I am LOVING all of these ideas about specific music to tie to art lessons!
I've been trying for years to do this, but frankly, I am just not well
versed in music. (High appreciation but low knowledge!!) THANKS ALL!
Linnie in CA
On 1/22/06 7:35 AM, "Ann Heineman" <aiheineman@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Hi Amy and List,
> Here are more gems that Judy D posted a few years back:
>
> Dear Arts Educators,
>
> Some of you may be interested in these tid bits - from NPR...
> http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=4-May-2001 >
> Gunther Schuller and Paul Klee
>
> Gunther Schuller (GUN-ther SHOO-ler)-- mixed-media background as a composer
> and a painter. And Schuller explains how he took visual images by Paul Klee
> (KLAY), and turned them into music.
>
> ...another piece inspired by a painting. But that painting was originally
> inspired by music. Gunther Schuller's "Arab Village" is from his set of
> "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee." We'll hear it played by the Radio
> Philharmonic of Hannover, led by Schuller. Paul Klee was a painter, but also
> a fine musician. Gunther Schuller is a composer, but was also an excellent
> painter.
> ---------------
> concert performance by pianist Pascal Roge (pahss-kahl roh-ZHAY) .....
> a delightful bonbon called "The Departure for Cythera" (SIH-theh-rah),
> inspired by a painting by Antoine Watteau (vah-TOH). (perhaps by Francis
> Poulenc (frah(n)-seess poo-LANK).
> ----------------
> When people talk about the French Impressionists, they're usually talking
> about painters. But the description is often extended to composer Claude
> Debussy. Jean-Yves Thibaudet (zhah(n)-eev tee-boh-DAY) plays three of
> Debussy's Preludes, Book Two: "Canope," "Alternating Thirds" and
> "Fireworks."
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here is a CD to look up
> http://www.lbso.org/recordings.html > Long Beach Symphony "Pictures" - it contains:
> Ottorino Respighi, composer
> Trittico botticelliano
> Long Beach Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
>
> Bohuslav Martinu, composer
> Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
> Long Beach Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
>
> Modest Musorgsky, composer
> Pictures at an Exhibition
> Long Beach Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
>
> Also see Impressions of the Sea
> ------------------------------------------
> Lis of Music Inspired by Art - compiled by Kevin Jagoe
> http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/kdjagoe/inspired.html > ------------------------------------------
> Lots of Songs about art (NOT a page to show your students)
> http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=4006208 (this is a list serve with some
> pretty bad language)
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Oh and of COURSE the famous Greg Percy - Songs in the Key of Art.... Greg is
> working on Volume 4 right now. He is moving up to middle school.... What
> will be his first middle school song? Maybe something about a pencil? We
> sure could give him a lot of material about middle school kids.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Don't know if any of these are kid appropriate - I only know the Dylan
> piece.
>
> "Pablo Picasso," The Modern Lovers
> "Salvador Dali's Garden Party," The Television Personalities
> "Painter Man," The Creation
> "When I Paint My Masterpiece," Bob Dylan/The Band
> "(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures," The Rezillios
> --------------------------------------
>
> by Michael Gira - I don't know anything about this recording....
> For instance, "The Man With The Silver Tongue" is based on the images of the
> Viennese artist Rudolph Schwartzkoggler. "The Garden Hides The Jewel" is
> sort of an homage to Marcel Duchamp; "Inner Female" is an homage to Francis
> Bacon. There's actually a lot of songs about art on New Mother.
> http://www.younggodrecords.com/Artists/MichaelGira/ > ----------------------------------------
> Hello Dali is the O'Reilly-Smith-O'Reilly-Magnus - gang of four in their
> original revue of songs about art, first produced at Victory Gardens,
> directed by Paul Amandes - "Hello Dali," a songwriter's look at the great
> painters, an award winning musical revue, was a box office hit in Victory
> Gardens Theater in Chicago. "Waving to Picasso" is on CD
>
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