Jones came into the office an hour late for the third time that week
and found the boss waiting for him.
"What's the story this time, Jones?" he asked sarcastically.
"Let's hear a good excuse for a change."
Jones sighed, "Everything went wrong this morning, boss. The wife
decided to drive me to the station. She got ready in ten minutes, but then the
drawbridge got stuck. Rather than let you down, I swam across the river - look,
my suit's still damp, ran out to the airport, got a ride on Mr. Thompson's
helicopter, landed on top of Radio City Music Hall, and was carried here
piggyback by one of the Rockettes."
"You'll have to do better than that, Jones," said the boss,
obviously disappointed. "No woman can get ready in ten minutes."
Indeed that was the score so to speak way back when. To
graduate from college I needed to design a theme, and mine assigned to me was
Beethoven’s 9 Symphonies. I decided to design 9 single album covers, covering
each of the symphonies and do so in a creative way.
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| Eh? Sorry Ludvig. |
This project took me many months of listening to Beethoven
and appreciating his work, to the point that it became personal. Along the way
I discovered that he was deaf to some degree, and being how I am, this
intrigued me even more.
The idea that a deaf man could create such brilliance in
music was akin to a blind man painting masterpieces. Incredible and
extraordinary for any human spirit, the composition of one symphony widely
acclaimed was impossible to achieve, 9 from a deaf man is incomprehensible!
So as the music theme was separate symphonies the design
theme was each of the ‘numbers’ 1 through 9 would be designed in a unique way,
numbers never before seen and yet recognized, conveying the idea that he could
not hear his music yet knew it well, so no one knew my representation of the
numbers, yet could tell what they are.
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| Huh? |
My work was acclaimed by my design instructor and
the school, then photographed, inserted in a magazine article at the time along with a container to hold
those LP albums, the cover design picking up the 9th symphony theme
with modifications. I wish I could find the slides that were made and the set
given to me, but it was so long ago, with moving and what not, they seem to
have disappeared. The actually work succumbed to time long ago, sadly.
In 1826 -
Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
I thought you’d like to hear it.
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