Woman Walking - illustration for "Sauntering Songs," a cantata by Nell Shaw Cohen

Описание: I'm illustrating songs from my cantata, “Sauntering Songs,” in anticipation of its World Premiere in April! Join me as I draw, paint, and recite song lyrics, speaking a bit about what each of these songs mean to me and what inspired me to write them.

Today’s video highlights the song “Woman Walking.” My painting depicts an imagined street scene from the point of view of the title character.

The World Premiere of “Sauntering Songs,” my concert-length cantata and love letter to wanderlust, will be given by three-time ​GRAMMY®-nominee ‪@SkylarkVocalEnsemble‬ featuring ‪@JuventasMusic‬ and guitarist James Moore, on April 20-22 in Falmouth, Chestnut Hill, and Newburyport, MA. More information at https://www.skylarkensemble.org/saunt....

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Music, video, and artwork by Nell Shaw Cohen.
Lyrics by Megan Cohen.
Arranged from the original version for soprano and piano, commissioned by Laura Strickling.
Quotation from Lauren Elkin, “A tribute to female flâneurs: the women who reclaimed our city streets,” The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20....

Background music is a MIDI realization of an excerpt from the song.

[Video description: A compilation of close-ups show Nell’s process of creating an artwork in pen and watercolors, depicting a city street in the architectural style of San Francisco. Residential buildings and parked cars are shown from the POV of a walker on a sidewalk going down a steep hill that leads toward a cityscape and mountains in the distance.]

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