A Visual Suite
A limited edition from the Susan Obrant Collection
Published by Fine Arts Pulblishers, LTD., London, England
Twelve prints with representative prose from the composers.
Frontispiece by Licia Albanese, Lloyd Moss of WQXR, and Peter Elvins.

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The Exotic Rimsky Korsakov	La Boheme	Allegro, Adagio, a Goethe	Mozart
The Music of Erik Satie: Through a Looking Glass	The Unaccompanied Cello, Juilliard	La Traviata by Verdi	The Masked Ball by Verdi
Mozart's Head	The Musical Head	Opera News Verdi vs. The Voice	Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss

 
Individual 11x17 prints: $150 each

Complete boxed set: $1,000

Susan Obrant refers to her passion as "a 25-year love affair with painting music." It's a passion that finds her giving as much as she gets. And in some ways, more. Certainly, the music serves as her inspiration, providing her with the perfect expression of her devotion, through a most impressive talent. It's one thing to be moved by music; it's another to be able to describe what you've heard and what impression it has made viscerally. But to be able to turn the tables, as it were, and pay the gods back in kind through the means of another discipline, harnessing one's own mastery in the service of that "payback"! That must be infinitely rewarding. Years ago, I had occcasion to interview a renowned author-illustrator, and I told him of the pleasure I had, reading his books to my children. I was thrilled by the revelation that he wrote and drew those books with my voice and music accompanying him in his labors. A similar pleasure was mine when Ms. Obrant related that my voice accompanied her as she created the works that greet you here. Music swirls off the canvas as it transforms itself from the auditory experience to the outward, visual revelation of her innermost responses. Inspired,indeed. —Lloyd Moss of WQXR La Boheme is a masterpiece, an opera that touches the heart deeply. The great Giaccomo Puccini created such beautiful music, full of intensity and emotion, especially the music for the delicate Mimi. I sang the role of "Mimi" so many times all over the world, but two very special events will remain with me forever- the recording of La Boheme with Benjamino Gigli, and when the great Arturo Toscanini chose me for Mimi for the 50th anniversary. The pastel of Susan Obrant reflects the passion, love, and tears of La Boheme. You can feel the very poverty of the young Bohemians and their emotion. I treasure both her imagery and her artist's heart. I know that it will touch the soul of everyone as it did mine. —Licia Albanese, The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, September 3, 2003 (Licia owns a boxed set of A Visual Suite)