There is a music hall, Parnassus Hall, located in a 5 minute-walk from my house, which regularly offers a morning concert. It has been 9 years since I came back to my home, and for the first time I went to the concert , which was Romantic violin pieces: Sibelius, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Greig. Later I learned that they were very popular pieces but very few of the melodies were familiar to me.
I have never thought of which countries those composers were from. Finland, Check, Russia and Norway are the countries I have never visited. The music composed more than 100 years ago in unknown places still made me imagine and empathize the emotions, feelings and lives of the people I have never met.
The painting below is “Dialog with the Lights”, 29”x36”,Acrylic on canvas, 2023
