Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Brown Land, 1962-63; watercolor and charcoal on paper, 33 x 40 in. (83.8 x 101.6 cm); Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2012
Evening music — Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony –
Inevitable most music for me, seems to belong to the season when I first hear it – Thus our first recorded version of this symphony, I bought in the fall of 1922 when we were living at 459 Franklin in Buffalo – so it suggests that time in our lives – and of late November and early December –
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, November 13, 1962