A quizzical Albert Einstein sits on a bench beside a brooding Niels Bohr, two early 20th-century physicists soaking in the sun. They are cast in aluminum. Vladimir Lemport, a sculptor active in Russia in the 1960s, made them at a time when their spirit — abstract, intelligent and humorous — stood in protest against the censoring government.
Read articleWest Stockbridge Chamber Players performs a full range of the music of America
A low reed lifts in a minor fourth. A chamber musician calls in the tone of a blues riff. When he came to America in 1892, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák found beauty in Spirituals and field songs, Gaelic fiddle or an Oglala or Lakota melody from the plains. He came […]
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