The theme of music drawing inspiration from identifiable paintings continues with the following material: Music: B Martinů – The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca (1955), Painting: Piero della Francesca – Frescoes in Arezzo, Italy of The History of the True Cross (before 1466), Music: F Liszt – Hunnenschlacht, tone poem for orchestra (1857), Painting: W von Kaulbach – Hunnenschlacht (c1850). Judith was a widow who beheaded the lustful Assyrian general Holofernes, and has traditionally been a popular art subject. And even today, we see the term Rake used to describe such a man (get your Netflix browser out.

All Rights Reserved, Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music, House Concert VII – Epplers’ & Skoob’s Gear, Billy Gibbons & Jay Boy Adams at Stubb’s, 11/12/06, I wrote an article for Lone Star Music Magazine. He saw himself deserting his Jewish friends. Arguably the most famous bringing together of the worlds of Art and Music, is Mussorgsky’s  Pictures at an Exhibition, a work written for piano in 1874, and inspired by an exhibition of paintings by Mussorgsky’s friend Viktor Hartmann, who had died from an aneurysm in the previous year. Years later, when the place reopened in Austin it was natural and necessary that live music be featured at Stubb’s. . We have detected that you are using an adblocking plugin in your browser. Mussorgsky lent the exhibition various items from his personal collection of Hartmann’s works and then went along to view the show in person. In summer 1903, Strauss digs in to write this salacious opera and premiers it in 1905. My home has long been known affectionately as the Lubbock Music Consulate to South Austin. This painting was purchased by Kent’s fiance’ as a birthday gift last year, and it was on display at my first gallery show at Tornado Gallery in Lubbock. ISSN: 2368-7045 | Copyright © 2011-2020 - All Rights Reserved Museland Media Inc. Perhaps the highlight of my book signing party at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin on November 12, 2006 is captured in this moment. Percy Shelley made a lovely description in his Letters from Italy (1899): The central figure, St. Cecilia, seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter’s mind; her deep, dark, eloquent eyes lifted up; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance, as it were, calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture, and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life.

Aesthetics: its root word, aisthetikos, “of or for perception by the senses, perceptive,” of things,   deftly describes the way we see the world through the five senses. About ten years ago, I signed a contract with the University of Texas Press to author a non-fiction book to be titled “Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music.” The book features my own interviews with twenty-five musicians and artists with ties to my hometown Lubbock in order to discover what it is about Lubbock and West Texas that nourishes the creative spirit,  a conservative and harsh region which is known for producing an inordinate amount of innovative and daring musicians & artists from Buddy Holly to Joe Ely to Natalie Maines and continuing with Amanda Shires, William Clark Green, etc. And one of the best Chagall’s musical motifs is the floating fiddler. Having converted her pagan husband, she gets to keep her virginity. A fun painting of some real fun ladies. The revenue we earn by the advertisements is used to manage this website.

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