Libby Larsen's Black Birds, Red Hills IV: A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Hills
This March, the Daily Classical Music Post will introduce you to some of the most wonderful music ever composed—and, yes, it will all be by women composers! https://youtu.be/XyfqpeHX3z0 The American composer Libby Larsen (born 1950) was inspired by a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe (who also is particularly notable for her contribution to a field dominated by men), A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Hills (1946), and the resulting composition was "Movement IV: A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Hills," from Black Birds, Red Hills. From the composer's notes: "Georgia O'Keeffe found the flow of time and color in music inspiring to her work as a painter. Black Birds, Red Hills is inspired by six paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Each painting explores the flow of time and color on her beloved red hills of New Mexico. In each painting O'Keeffe reveals perspective, beauty and meaning through the magnification of objects, specifically the horizon line, the black rock...