Folks, you can try Googling "drawings by Mozart," or "drawings by Verdi," but you won't get a single hit. Beethoven created some wildly beautiful scores, but he doesn't seem to have left a single sketch, of a more conventional sort, behind. Composers who draw, or drew, are flatly rare - which perhaps makes the John Cage piece pictured above ('River Rocks and Smoke,' 1991) all the more satisfying.
And which suggests, perhaps, that little Cleo may never grow up to be a composer. Because, you see, she is currently leaving a mad wake of drawings behind her, wherever she goes. Is the living room eerily quiet? It's probably because she's holed up again with her big bad of markers and crayons, and is hard at work on yet another dense composition featuring a family of bunnies, or sprouting flowers, or Rapunzel's tower, or rough approximations of labels.
But why tell, when I can show? Take this, Beethoven: here's a gallery of drawings by Cleo - a phrase that should now yield, when Googled, at least one hit.
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