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Composed by The Vaad

Performed by Marc Thayer and Ranya Iqbal

Inspired by the Fernand Leger sculpture

When I was in college I worked at a museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan called The Frick Collection. The museum was Henry Clay Frick’s former residence and it was chocked full of great masters and a few impressionists. No Modernists, of course, this house was a relic of the gilded age and so were Frick’s tastes.

Once a month, the museum organized a chamber music concert in its interior courtyard, a beautiful, meditative space filled with bronze sculpture and old paintings. On breaks from selling tickets or books in the gift shop, I would stroll around the space and enjoy the art and listen to the string quartets filling the space with their gorgeous sounds.

Fernand Léger was a modernist and Boogie Woogie seems on the surface a more appropriate foundation for an interpretation of this piece. But there is something very “classic” about bronze relief sculptures to me and as I first laid eyes on this Leger relief, I was instantly transported back to to those days at the Frick.

-Benjamin Kaplan
St. Louis, 2014

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from 38​.​627​,​-​90​.​194, released July 1, 2014
Composed by The Vaad

Performed by Marc Thayer and Ranya Iqbal

Inspired by the Fernand Leger sculpture

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Commonwealth, founded by artists Benjamin Kaplan and Chris Grabau and, “is an approach to making art that comes in response to our surroundings,” says Grabau. Kaplan adds, “St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, both geographically and psychologically. We live in our neighborhoods. And we see Commonwealth as a way to expand that neighborhood.” ... more

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