![]() John, performed the world premiere of Martin Kennedy’s “Violin Concerto in D” with the Omaha Symphony (broadest live on KVNO, by the way), Maestro Ankush Kumar Bahl said that the piece consisted of over 10,000 individual notes just for the violin. Last month, when renowned violinist, Lara St. How many notes make up the “Raindrop” Prelude? Or any of Chopin’s preludes, for that matter? As I was putting this video together with the music, watching my 4,091 strokes of the pen going by, I got to wondering. Or I ponder the quirky and the interesting. Case in point: the music for this creative-process video is Frédéric Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude, Op. In my mind, perhaps I make a quick trip to a magical land. Something else I do when listening to classical music, besides relaxing: I experience these little flights of fancy. By the third frame, of course, the driver is not only calmer but uplifted, seemingly floating above the traffic. It’s kind of an existential/meta moment, a surreal experience.Īnyway, this piece? It took a grand total of…timpani roll, please…4,091 strokes of the pen.Īs the video moves along you’ll see in the second frame where the driver switches the radio to KVNO (Another side note: I loved putting in the detail of a KVNO travel mug, coffee steam coming out). But having a video replay allows me to go back and watch my process, line by line. When I’m drawing I’m often so focused and in the zone I don’t really pay attention to exactly every scribble and scratch. Not only can I achieve details I couldn’t when drawing the old way, my iPad also captures each and every stroke of the pen. During the pandemic I switched from drawing with pen and ink on paper to creating on an iPad-which has been life-changing. The modern world can also be a really cool place. Even commuting from the bedroom to the home office has its own sort of stress (How does my hair look? Where’s my cat or dog? I mean, the others on Zoom count on seeing little Finn every morning, don’t they?). So what better way to symbolize a stressful moment-in an image and in a few words-than showing someone all stressed out in heavy traffic? And let’s be honest. Especially when traffic is bad (is there ever good traffic?). A positive and uplifting place to get away from it all, if even for a few minutes. I don’t know about you, but when I listen to classical music in my car or at home (or while filling in at the studio) I find myself letting out a deep sigh of relief-that is, when I’m not humming along or air conducting.Īnd while not all of us are driving around while listening to KVNO, many are-commuting to and from work, taking the kids to school, etc. One of the many things I love-not only as a listener of KVNO, but as the fill-in host for Otis Twelve-is that the station provides a respite from all the hubbub (side note: isn’t “hubbub” kind of fun to say?). With all the hustle and bustle of our day-to-day activities, to say nothing of some of the anxiety-inducing news as of late, the world can certainly be a stressful place. Besides, the topic is one in which I’m very passionate. They practically write (or draw!) themselves. When KVNO station manager and host of Midday Classics, Sherry Kennedy Brownrigg, asked if I’d be willing to draw a cartoon celebrating the music we play, I instantly knew the direction I’d go.
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