Collaborative Art Project: Combining Music, Visual Art and Poetry

The interplay of the art disciplines creates more beauty and wonder than any one discipline presented in isolation. Creativity cannot be limited to only one expression. The use of as many senses as possible enhances the emotional experience for the listener and viewer.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. (Michelangelo)

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute. (Henry Moore)

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. (Gertrude Stein)

Project Number One
October 2010

Collaboration between artist Marcia Babler and harpist Barbara Ann Fackler

Poem: Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art: created by Marcia Babler
Music: La Rosa Enflorece(Traditional Sephardic love song, 16th c. Spain) arranged and performed by Barbara Ann Fackler

The music in this video is included in the CD Pleasantries & Diversions.