SANTA FE, NM: How does a painting sound? How do line and shape, color and texture, mood and compositional relationships translate into music? Join conductor and arts educator Oliver Prezant, violinist Carla Kountoupes, clarinetist Jerry Weimer, and cellist Katie Harlow for an interactive, musical exploration of a colorful, abstract painting by New Mexico artist Beatrice Mandelman, a prominent member of the Taos art scene from the mid-1940s to 1998. During the program, the audience will have the opportunity to explore the expressive implications of line, shape, color, texture, and the mood of the painting, as Oliver and the group turn audience impressions into musical ideas. At the end of the program, the musicians will use the work of art as a musical score, from which Oliver will conduct an improvised musical interpretation.

Thanks to our generous donors, Susan and Steven J. Goldstein, Sherry Parker, and Bernadette Snider.

Discovering the Music of Paintings is sponsored in part by: KHFM and KUNM.

Art Image: Beatrice Mandelman, Sea Shapes (#1), c. 1960s. Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM. Image courtesy of Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City and the UNM Foundation, Inc.

This event is a production of Opus OP Arts and Education Projects.