Charles Burchfield and “Watercolors” for wind quintet – Nell Shaw Cohen

Autumnal Fantasy, 1916-44. Private collection. I am fascinated by the works of American painter Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), and was inspired by his visual world to compose a wind quintet and an orchestral tone poem (The Sphinx and the Milky Way). The premiere of my wind quintet Watercolors, the winner of NEC’s 2010-2011 Honors Ensemble Composition Competition, will be performed on Thursday,...