Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Duet of light and music - Alexander Scriabin


A hundred years ago classical composers were all absorbed in creating music that, as they hoped, would eventually bear some genius sound. Every each of them was inspired by his/her own muse – women, nature, feelings… For Alexander Scriabin fire and light became those sources of inspiration. And it all resulted in a most amazing of duets – combination of music and light, color music. His SymphonyNo.5 ‘Prometheus. The Poem of Fire’ (so symbolically picked for the Greek God of Fire) was the first to be performed with a color music effect in 1915. Scriabin thus became a pioneer in ‘music coloring’. Today technology has gone so far; now one can enjoy the power of music, laser light and even water fountains combined. But back then it was a truly unique and breathtaking experience.

Haydn's Miracle Symphony No.102

They call Joseph Haydn the father in music. He is considered to be, indirectly, the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, hav...