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Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn
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"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
This blog is a window into my creative process and philosophies as a composer and instrumentalist. At times it may contain music, photos, and poetry as well. May you enjoy, return, and benefit!   My Archives  September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010
A Rose for Freya
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Dear Guests,
The official and final title is “A Rose for Freya” but as I worked on it before it was complete, it was “Black Rose Blooming Under Full Moon” The black rose depicts the BP oil spill, my feelings of utter horror at this prolific devastation and all it represents, and the full moon depicts my sublime love of our planet earth and my feelings of detached witnessing of the horrific destruction caused by human greed and ignorance. But great art isn’t just journalism. Digging for the clay of emotion, content and reason then depicting the ingredients isn’t enough to make great art, it is part of the process. Great art has to be alchemical transforming the contents of internal deep sea diving into a work of beauty. The deep sea diving is finding the darkness and the alchemy is shedding light onto it. I said this is in the HOPE category of my music, because it is in fact alchemical beyond journalism, it sheds light onto this despair. I titled it “A Rose to Freya” because Freya is the Norse goddess of love, fertility, beauty, tides and the sea. The oil spill being the antithesis of what Freya represents, this work of music in transformation is a rose to all she represents. It’s practically an offering and a prayer. I’m making the intellectual decision to have hope and faith in the future because I simply have to do that in order to go forward in my life. I am afraid though. I believe this piece portrays my feelings of utter horror and profound love of beauty and then some. If you listen you can hear the ever sliding spill pouring into the sea and you can hear the moon above, detached and influential. The moon sometimes fades as I imagined clouds eclipsing it and desiring to create contrast of hearing just the sea. This is what I consider to be 21st century art music. I hope you will appreciate it as I appreciate you. If you wish, you can ride the wave of 21st century art music with me by purchasing a "Composer Courtesy Subscription" - see music page - to receive the latest mp3s and accompanying blogs as I create them. Musically yours, Kathryn |
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