Colors: The Musical

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Colors: The Musical – Act 9: White

The Story
Color is a large, broad topic, yet color is a human perspective.
We see because cones on the eye’s retina detects a specified range of colors in light, transforms the light messages into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain for interpretation and translation into sight. If it wasn’t for the cones on the retina we wouldn’t see the range of colors that we do … but we could still see without cones.
Colors are a range in the visible light spectrum that correspond to some guy named Roy G Biv. We categorize colors into different levels as primary, secondary, and intermediate. involve tints, shades, and hues with neutrals, pastels, warm/cool, and complementary/contrast … yet designers and artists organize usable colors into a palate.
While a color space organizes colors, a color model serves as a mathematical interpretation … yet 216 colors have been identified as safe for web pages – each with an identify code – each with its own mixture of RGB (red, green, blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness and HSB (hue, saturation, brightness).
Cultures adapt color for various symbolisms. The same color can mean excitement, purity, danger, success, and more … yet colors are associated with personality, psychology, meditation, philosophy, and marketing.
No matter the perception, scheme, physics, theory, psychology, or culture, this experience is Colors: The Musical.
Act 9: White
White – signifying purity, innocence, a new beginning, serenity, wholeness, perfection, and cleanliness
White – a common color in nature – as in ice, clouds, snow, milk, chalk, limestone, doves, white swans, the arctic fox, beluga whale, a snow leopard, light, and white pearls
White – prisms transform white light so we can see the color spectrum that comprises white light
White – depending on the culture, the color for baptism, first communion, Easter, weddings, funerals, reincarnation, Hajj, Yom Kippur, and Niwa
White – used in idioms and expressions as white knight, white noise, whitewash, white collar, white lie, white paper, white as a ghost, raise the white flag, white elephant, and many more
White – fitting for the last act of Colors: The Musical – has equal amounts and equal intensities of other colors
Guidelines
Songs must have White in the title
Cautions
  • No forms of white (as whitish, whiter, whitest, etc)
  • No shades of white (as cream, ivory, eggshell, etc)
  • No compound words as (whitewater, whitecaps, whitewash, etc)
  • No duplicates songs regardless of artists

Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement
Closing Night is always a sad night – and Colors: The Musical has been a success. But the final act also means a new theme is near. Because white symbolizes a new beginning, we’ve invited a rocker with the appropriate song title to start tonight act. Let’s stand up and start clapping to welcome Billy Idol with White Wedding.
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Colors: The Musical – Act 8: Shades

The Story
Color is a large, broad topic, yet color is a human perspective.

We see because cones on the eye’s retina detects a specified range of colors in light, transforms the light messages into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain for interpretation and translation into sight. If it wasn’t for the cones on the retina we wouldn’t see the range of colors that we do … but we could still see without cones.

Colors are a range in the visible light spectrum that correspond to some guy named Roy G Biv. We categorize colors into different levels as primary, secondary, and intermediate. involve tints, shades, and hues with neutrals, pastels, warm/cool, and complementary/contrast … yet designers and artists organize usable colors into a palate.

While a color space organizes colors, a color model serves as a mathematical interpretation … yet 216 colors have been identified as safe for web pages – each with an identify code – each with its own mixture of RGB (red, green, blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness and HSB (hue, saturation, brightness).

Cultures adapt color for various symbolisms. The same color can mean excitement, purity, danger, success, and more … yet colors are associated with personality, psychology, meditation, philosophy, and marketing.

No matter the perception, scheme, physics, theory, psychology, or culture, this experience is Colors: The Musical.

ColorsPlaybillPROGRAM
Act 1: Black
Act 2: Red

Act 8: Shades
Shade, tone, hue, tinge,touch tone, cast, highlights, lowlights, saturation, lightness, darkness, pigmentation, and complexion are closely related to shades.

A color wheel is a visual representation of colors in relationship to other colors. We start with primary colors, then move onto secondary and tertiary colors. We can add white and/or black to any of the colors to create shades. We add white and black to different hues of the shades. The bottom line is a large palette options available for our us.

Our choices are many – yet we work to complement the scheme with different shades through lightness, darkness, and coordinating.

Guidelines

  • Songs must include a color shade in the title
  • The shade may only be used once
Cautions
  • No colors from previous or upcoming acts (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, brown, black, white)
  • No duplicate songs of the shade (once the shade is used in a song title, no more songs from that shade)
  • Stick to normal shade colors
  • The Producer has the final say on what is an acceptable shade
    No duplicates songs regardless of artists

Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement
This act is a challenge to attendees – but the aFa team is confident that it’s readers will rise to the occasion. The opening act is not only an American icon, but he’s also a global star. With his roots in the American heartland, his songs capture the heart and soul of ordinary Americans. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome John Mellencamp singing Beige to Beige, (therefore no more songs featuring Beige in the title).

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Colors: The Musical – Act 6: Purple, Indigo, and Violet

The Story
Color is a large, broad topic, yet color is a human perspective.

We see because cones on the eye’s retina detects a specified range of colors in light, transforms the light messages into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain for interpretation and translation into sight. If it wasn’t for the cones on the retina we wouldn’t see the range of colors that we do … but we could still see without cones.

Colors are a range in the visible light spectrum that correspond to some guy named Roy G Biv. We categorize colors into different levels as primary, secondary, and intermediate. involve tints, shades, and hues with neutrals, pastels, warm/cool, and complementary/contrast … yet designers and artists organize usable colors into a palate.

While a color space organizes colors, a color model serves as a mathematical interpretation … yet 216 colors have been identified as safe for web pages – each with an identify code – each with its own mixture of RGB (red, green, blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) and HSB (hue, saturation, brightness).

Cultures adapt color for various symbolisms. The same color can mean excitement, purity, danger, success, and more … yet colors are associated with personality, psychology, meditation, philosophy, and marketing.

No matter the perception, scheme, physics, theory, psychology, or culture, this experience is Color: The Musical.ColorsPlaybill

PROGRAM
Act 1: Black
Act 2: Red
Act 3: Orange and Yellow
Act 4: Green
Act 5: Blue

Act 6: Purple
The word ‘purple‘ comes from the Old English word purpul, which derives from the Latin purpura, in turn from the Greek porphura

Purple, unlike violet, is not one of the colors of the visible spectrum or a color in the rainbow as defined by Isaac Newton

Violet and purple are both placed between red and blue. Purple occupies the space closer to red, between crimson and violet while violet is closer to blue

In Europe and the U.S., purple is the color most often associated with royalty, magic, mystery, and piety. When combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism, femininity, and seduction

The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces who are wounded in action

Purple was one of the colors of the Women’s Suffrage movement

Purple, as Amethyst, grapes, eggplants, grapes, plums, purple sea urchin, purple finch, purple heron, purple queenfish, purple honeycreeper, purple beech, purple frog, and numerous flowers

Living things that are purple contain a natural pigment called anthocyanins

Purple Mountain is a place in China, Ireland, and the USA (Wyoming, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado)

The one perfect rhyme with purple is curple (a word used on this blog for the first time)

Guidelines
Songs must have Purple, Indigo, or Violet in the title

Cautions

  • No songs using any of the three as a compound word (purplehead)
  • No songs using a form purple, indigo, or violet (purples, purpleness, etc)
  • No songs using shades or hues of purple, indigo, or violet
  • OK! Hyphenated words with purple (purple-haired armadillo)
  • No duplicates songs regardless of artists

Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement
This act is a challenge. Indigo is closer to blue, but I wanted to use everything Roy G Biv offers. In terms of Roy, as popular as purple may be, purple is not a color in the visible spectrum. With that note, on to the opening act. Although this person is a legend and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this may be the first time he has opened an act. Ladies and gentleman we welcome Rod Stewart with Purple Heather.

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Colors: The Musical – Act 4: Green

The Story
Color is a large, broad topic, yet color is a human perspective.

We see because cones on the eye’s retina detects a specified range of colors in light, transforms the light messages into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain for interpretation and translation into sight. If it wasn’t for the cones on the retina we wouldn’t see the range of colors that we do … but we could still see without cones.

Colors are a range in the visible light spectrum that correspond to some guy named Roy G Biv. We categorize colors into different levels as primary, secondary, and intermediate. involve tints, shades, and hues with neutrals, pastels, warm/cool, and complementary/contrast … yet designers and artists organize usable colors into a palate.

While a color space organizes colors, a color model serves as a mathematical interpretation … yet 216 colors have been identified as safe for web pages – each with an identify code – each with its own mixture of RGB (red, green, blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness and HSB (hue, saturation, brightness).

Cultures adapt color for various symbolisms. The same color can mean excitement, purity, danger, success, and more … yet colors are associated with personality, psychology, meditation, philosophy, and marketing.

No matter the perception, scheme, physics, theory, psychology, or culture, this experience is Color: The Musical.

ColorsPlaybillPROGRAM
Act 1: Black
Act 2: Red
Act 3: Orange and Yellow

Act 4: Green

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. (Pedro Calderon de la Barca, dramatist)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. (Martin Luther, theologian)

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. (Samuel Daniel, poet)

Green – the color associated with 495-570 nanometers of light.

Green – the color between blue and yellow.

Green – an apple, avocado, many leafy vegetables, an emerald.

Green – a light, signal, the color of safety, and so much more.

Green – the theme for Act 4.

Guidelines
Songs must have Green in the title.

Cautions

  • No songs using green as a compound word (evergreen, greensleeves, greenfields, etc)
  • No songs using a form of green (greener, greenest, greeny, greenery, etc)
  • No songs using shades or hues as blue-green, aqua, jade, emerald, and others
  • OK! Hyphenated words with green (green-eyed turtle), but not when as a shade (blue-green).
  • No duplicates songs regardless of artists

Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement
The songs with green in the title is a long list – a list that includes one of my all-time favorite songs. A surprise song popped out above the others. One that I didn’t know, but the titled tugged at my heart. The opening song is about a different place – the one in Kentucky, not mine in Ohio. (Past post explains the differences.) Nonetheless, let give a big and loud welcome to The Everly Brothers singing Bowling Green.

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Colors: The Musical – Act 3: Orange and Yellow

The Story
Color is a large, broad topic, yet color is a human perspective.

We see because cones on the eye’s retina detects a specified range of colors in light, transforms the light messages into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain for interpretation and translation into sight. If it wasn’t for the cones on the retina we wouldn’t see the range of colors that we do … but we could still see without cones.

Colors are a range in the visible light spectrum that correspond to some guy named Roy G Biv. We categorize colors into different levels as primary, secondary, and intermediate. involve tints, shades, and hues with neutrals, pastels, warm/cool, and complementary/contrast … yet designers and artists organize usable colors into a palate.

While a color space organizes colors, a color model serves as a mathematical interpretation … yet 216 colors have been identified as safe for web pages – each with an identify code – each with its own mixture of RGB (red, green, blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness and HSB (hue, saturation, brightness).

Cultures adapt color for various symbolisms. The same color can mean excitement, purity, danger, success, and more … yet colors are associated with personality, psychology, meditation, philosophy, and marketing.

No matter the perception, scheme, physics, theory, psychology, or culture, this experience is Color: The Musical.

ColorsPlaybillPROGRAM
Act 1: Black
Act 2: Red

Act 3: Orange and Yellow

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
(Pablo Picasso, artist)

Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I’ll try to make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit. (Jean-Luc Bilodeau, actor)

Orange and yellow – neighbors on the color spectrum with wavelengths between 570-620 nanometers … with orange flanked by red and yellow – which is flanked by orange and green.

Orange from the Old French orenge and Arabic naranj – with its first recorded English use in 1512.

Yellow from the Old English geolu, which is derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz – and oldest use dates back to 700.

Orange … the color of its namesake fruit – plus carrots, pumpkins, apricots, cantaloupes, and autumn leaves.

Yellow .. the color bananas, lemons, squash, daffodils, many flowers, and more.

Orange … a royal house, a color on flags of a nation, and associated with life preservers, robes of young Buddhist monks, red rocks, a Hindu holy man, and saffron.

Yellow … a color symbolizing sunlight, wisdom, warmth and reason.

Orange … a color of entertainment, frivolity, visibility, warning, and taking risk

Yellow … a complement to purple as orange is to blue

There is no blue without yellow and without orange. (Vincent Van Gogh, artist)

Guidelines
Songs with Orange or Yellow must be in the title

Cautions

  • No songs using yellow or orange as a compound word (yellowbird, yellowtails, orangewood etc)
  • No songs using a form of yellow or orange (yellower, yellowest etc)
  • No songs using shades or hues of orange or yellow
  • No duplicates songs regardless of artists

Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement
We combined orange and yellow to form Act 3 to keep the musical moving while making it an enjoyable experience for all. With my birthday being not long ago, a journey back to the time I was 10 – and that would be 1963, and the great Bobby Darin delivered this song that also served as the title of his latest album. This song didn’t come close to topping the charts, but we love a trip back in time. Ladies and gentlemen – Welcome the great Bobby Darin with 18 Yellow Roses.