I am excited about the upcoming European travel logs, including the Italian Symphony, Satie’s Gymnopedie’s as well as The Hebrides (Overture)!
I met up with Andrew Steiner, PhD Candidate in the Geology Department at UBC. Since he is originally from Scotland, and has done a fair amount on geological features in the Hebrides, he is the perfect addition to understand Mendelssohn’s Hebrides!
Find some of the pictures we discuss below — note the feature of steamboats in both Mendelssohn’s drawing as well as Turner’s painting — state of the art tourism technology!
Enjoy, and I hope to see you at the VSO on February 3/4/6!
The island of Staffa
Sketch of a scene by Felix Mendelssohn found in his letter of August 1, 1829 to his sister Fanny
(original in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/critique-of-reason/360/staffa-fingals-cave