a colour symphonyの例文
- In 2004, Laycock created a series of paintings called " Tectonics " as a direct response to Bliss's " A Colour Symphony " using parallel compositional structures.
- "A Colour Symphony " was written to be performed at the Three Choirs Festival, held in 1922 in Gloucester, at the invitation of Sir Edward Elgar, who also invited Herbert Howells and Eugene Goossens to write a piece each.
- "The Times " wrote that " Bliss was acquiring a reputation as a tearaway " by the time he was commissioned, through Elgar's influence, to write a large-scale symphonic work ( " A Colour Symphony " ) for the Three Choirs Festival of 1922 . " The Times " praised it highly ( though doubting if much was gained by the designation of the four movements as purple, red, blue and green ) and commented that the symphony confirmed Bliss's transition from youthful experimenter to serious composer.