Challenge of Music reveal

Erin Prais-Hintz of Treasures-Found.blogspot.com issued a challenge to make something, be it jewelry or some other craft, that was inspired by a piece of instrumental music.  I thought of a song right away but it had a single word at the very end of the music.  I asked Erin about it and she said to go for.  Then I had to try and find the music.  It wasn't readily available at home.  So what to do?

One of the types of music Erin wanted us to listen to was music that paints a series of pictures.  My friend and beading partner Evelyn found some music that she wanted to use as her challenge piece so I listened along with her and decided to use her piece of music for the challenge also.  If you look at her piece and then at my piece you would not believe that we listened to the same piece.

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer of many types of music, symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music and film scores.  The music that I listened to was "A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)" which draws on his experience as an ambulance driver in World War I.  He would go up a hill to view the sunset.  There is a cadenza for trumpet in the second movement that is based on a bugler's practice where the bugler repeatedly played an interval of a flattened seventh instead of an octave.  It was first played January 26, 1922 in London conducted by Adrian Boult.

Here is a link to YouTube: A Pastoral Symphony

It has four movements, each different.  The first is Molto moderato which is contentedly calm in tone but has a darker central section.  It often features solo instruments.  This is the section that I listened to to make my piece.  The second movement is Lento moderato a slow movement opening with a horn solo followed by a cello solo leading to the trumpet cadenza.  The third movement is Moderato pesante which is introduced by a brass section followed by some fast music (the only time fast music appears in the symphony).  The fourth and final movement is Lento starting with a wordless soprano voice sung over a soft drumroll.  The orchestra then begins a elegiac rhapsody followed by an impassioned outpouring of feeling followed by violins playing the opening soprano melody with the soprano singing the music into silence.

 Here is what I created:



A Pastoral Symphony Necklace and Earrings

The set is made from peach and yellow opaque beads with pink, Lt. green, and amethyst faceted beads.  Also included at aqua glass disks and Lt green glass leaves. 

My information was obtained from Wikipedia and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society websites.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit all the other bloggers that participated in the Challenge of Music.

 

Erin Prais-Hintz Alenka Obid Ali McCarthy Alicia Marinache Amy Severino Amy Grass Carolyn Lawson  you are here Cece Cormier Cynthia Riggs Ema Kilroy Emanda Johnson Emma Todd Erin Kenny Evelyn Shelby  Evie and Beth McCord Gerd Andersson Holly Westfall Jennifer Justman Jenny Davies-Reazor Jess Green Judy Campbell Karla Morgan Kay Thomerson Kristina Johansson Lola Surwillo Lynn White Malin de Koning Mallory Hoffman Mary K McGraw Melissa Meman Melissa Trudinger Michelle Escano Michelle Bourbonniere Michelle Heim Michelle Mach Molly Alexander Molly Schaller Monique Urquhart Niky Sayers Pam Farren Rebecca Anderson Sally Russick Sharon Palac Sharon Driscoll Susan Kennedy Tari Kahrs Tracy Stillman Veralynne Malone

Bead Soup beads have arrived!



Goodies have arrived



My Bead Soup partner, Chris White, sent me some challenging beads in my soup.  They arrived neatly packaged in organza drawstring bags.

Pressed glass squares and glass pearls



Purple and white jade



Jade nuggets, Marsha Neal Studio ceramic pendant, ivory cinnabar



Glass squares, jade rectangles and nuggets




Glass pearls




Ivory cinnabar, white jade, silver spacers and beads caps



Silver spacers, bead caps and toggle clasp, Marsha Neal Studio pendant 



Jade rounds, rectangles, silver spacers and toggle clasp


What to make is now the question.  Do I go for multiple items or one item?  The only requirement is to use the focal bead and the clasp.  So do I only use those items from the soup? That will be the question.  Please come back for the second reveal date of April 6th for this year's Bead Soup Blog Party.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please come back on Friday, March 1, for the Challenge of Music reveal.

Carolyn

Bead Soup Blog Party partner

I have been remiss in not introducing my Bead Soup Blog Party partner. 

She is Chris White of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  She has been beading for 6 years and has been published in Bead Trends magazine monthly for the last two years.  She was the featured designer in June 2012.  She does beadweaving and stringing.  She makes the most fabulous jewelry.  I especially liked her black Tila bead bracelet that was in the September 2012 issue.  To see some of her work you can visit her Etsy shop at:  White Dog Jewelry.

This will be her second Bead Soup Blog Party and mine also.  Here are the beads that Chris sent me.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

I think I am back with a bang

I have completed and submitted a picture for the January Challenge with Operation Tackle That Bead Stash. 

I have the February Challenge necklace and earrings done, the picture just have to be emailed to the hostess.

I entered a bracelet in Shipwreck Beads bracelet contest. 

I have also entered the Bead Soup Blog Hop but don't know which reveal I will have.

I have also entered the Challenge of Music Blog Hop.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please come again.  Will have some information on my Bead Soup Blog Hop partner.

Carolyn

Please vote for my bracelet

I have entered a Valentine bracelet

in Shipwreck Beads bracelet contest.  Please visit this link and vote (hopefully for mine) http://www.shipwreckbeads.com/static/support/valentines.html.  Mine is on the first page, first column, bottom (8th) row.

Please feel free to visit the site and come back and make a comment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

I'm back - sort of

Sorry for my disappearance from the blogging scene. 


I broke my arm the beginning of October and had an above the elbow cast for four weeks

and then a below the elbow cast for two more weeks.  My hand was so swollen when the cast came off I wasn't able to open a door, hold a fork, type on the computer,  much less hold beading tools.

After six weeks of physical therapy my hand has improved immensely.  I have made about five different items that I will share on another post.  I still need help with doing the loops and things that you have to do some wrist turning on.  I have a friend that is willing to do that for me.

I also need to apologize to several blog hop hostesses as I was not able to post the items that I made for the hops.  I will do this in another post.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

I'm glad to be back.

October Fest challenge

The blog Jewelry School Friends is having a blog challenge that is a little unusual in that you can make items that do not involve beads or beading.  It's being called A Jewelry, Craft, Bead, Home & Hearth Creative Challenge for Blogs, Facebook Pages, and the JSF page.

See this link for more details:

october-fest-jewelry-craft-bead-home
I believe there are a couple of more openings if anyone is interested.










I already have an idea for a necklace and possibly earrings.  The big reveal is October 28, so please come back to see what I made and to visit the other bloggers in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn