A Colour Symphony Welsh Symphony Orchestra. The last movement, "Green", was separately published as "Pyonepsion". In 1977, a ballet called "Royal Offering" was created, with music based on "A Colour Symphony". A short extract from the 'Red' movement was used as the opening music to BBC TV coverage of The Proms until 2011. The British artist Kevin Laycock created a visual piece called "Four Movements in Colour", in which he attempted to portray, in colour, the sounds created by Arthur Bliss. In 2004, Laycock created a series of paintings called "Tectonics" as a direct response to Bliss's "A Colour Symphony" using parallel compositional
Port and starboard is the left-hand side and the starboard side is the right-hand side. However, port and starboard never change; they are unambiguous references that are "not" based on the relative directions of an observer, just as the cardinal directions of east and west do not change no matter the direction a person faces. The term "starboard" derives from the Old English "steorbord", meaning the side on which the ship is steered. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered with a steering oar at the stern of the ship on the right hand side of the ship, because more