Team Members: Christopher Yu, Andrew Yang, Nicholas Pollock, Pearl Franz, Sachit Lumba, Kruti Sutaria
Our show is centered around The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The show is characterized by an opening that provides a brief introduction of the four seasons, and then the next four parts are each devoted to a specific season in the order of spring, summer, fall, then winter. Finally, the outro and closing is meant to thematically summarize the show as a whole. In the musical composition, each concerti is designed to characterize the feelings and themes of each corresponding season. Furthermore, each season has a corresponding sonnet with which the music also goes along to. These themes are represented for each of the seasons in our show through the utilization of a variety of visual characteristics such as color, movement, speed, etc.
Link with Timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YixXSEzU4&t=714s
Introduction: The show begins with the bridge being segmented into four different parts with each one representing a season using the primary color of the season. Then, a very brief synopsis of what each season will bring is presented in order before transitioning into the main show.
Spring: Spring is characterized by a time of budding flowers and the rising sun. The colors and movement are meant to represent a carefree spring morning. The scene below shows the budding of the flowers with each block representing a flower slowly fading in.
Summer: Summer has a faster tempo and a higher level of intensity, but also contains instances of slowness to represent scenes such as a gentle summer breeze. The scene below represents of the intense moments, with rapidly changing blue lights to show the scene of a torrential downpour.
Fall: Fall generally has a more carefree and cheerful rhythm to represent the coming and celebration of the harvest. Pastel oranges, reds, and browns are used to express the beauty of autumn leaves. The scene blow contains alternating orange lights to represent a festival, where everyone is moving about and celebrating, and spirits and activity are high.
Winter: Winter transitions into a darker, more sinister melody as well as gentleness with snowy days. The scene below shows the northern lights, with the same colors and gentleness of an aurora that would be seen in the sky.
Outro: After the conclusion of winter, there is a short fadeaway, and then it breaks into a short summary of each of the four seasons. Then, each of the seasons are briefly shown all together before the show fades away completely.
