What Color Are You?

I know I’m going deep into the weeds on this one, but please bare with me.

We often hear, especially in reviews. about an artist or a composer’s ability to create a colors of sound in their music or their performance.

What does that mean?

For me, it’s hearing something piquant…tangy or spicy. Your mileage may vary — you see the colors when you hear them.

I see cascading colors when I hear Rachmaninov’s “Symphonic Dances,” especially with the piccolo, 2 flutes, Xylophone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, muted trumpets and strings — aka the “Philadelphia Sound.”

https://bit.ly/4gtxyk9 check out: circa 2:30; 3:16; 9:30; and 11:30 to the end.

Hear the Symphonic Dances: https://bit.ly/40mtSvR —Skip to the Third Movement to hear the referenced excerpt.

I hear similar colors and colored effects at the beginning of Ottorino Respighi’s - Trittico botticelliano (Three Botticelli Pictures for orchestra) https://bit.ly/3QkYHeR

Now, here are the weeds.

What is your color?

What colors do you want to create? I know…it depends on the music, so that’s why I'm going deeper into the weeds to ask the harder question.

As a performer or composer, “What is your performer or composer color?”

I am not a performer or a composer. However, I am…blue rising. https://bit.ly/4jH8LvV