Beginning to animate...

I am starting to begin to animate the first few seconds of the song. I started off very simply with just one letterform and I'm going to see where it takes me. This could either be abstract, or I could still use the Gershwin quotes with just a simple font. I noticed that when I started to animate I felt that I wanted to start using the letterforms as a design element, and alter and abstract them. Here is a very short clip of the first few seconds, and also about 30 seconds of the song. I plan to cut the music to 1 minute, which has been very challenging because the entire piece is 14 minutes long. So it will be a challenge to see if I can capture the essence of the song by cutting it down to a minute.