Love, Power, and Wisdom in Situ by Stephen Weigel published on 2016-03-22T19:03:22Z Movement 1 (The Kiss) - 0:00 Movement 2 (Ozymandias) - 3:57 Movement 3 (Parthenon) - 7:51 This piece was performed at my senior composition recital at Ball State University on March 1st, 2016. This is a solo piece for bassoon, and each movement acts as program music for the piece of art it is named after. The Kiss (painting by Gustav Klimt) represents Love https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/The_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg Ozymandias (poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley) represents Power https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ozymandias Parthenon (temple of Ancient Greece) represents Wisdom https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/The_Parthenon_in_Athens.jpg Bassoonist: Cameron Keenan Cameron also came up with the conceptual ideas for the piece and chose the artwork. Thanks for the collaboration, Cameron! Genre Classical
