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Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar,” De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song “Sueña” is an ode to dreams.
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Image credit: Auguste Renoir, “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar” (detail), 1898, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.76
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Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by American artists such as Robert Henri and George Bellows, Schneider discusses “art for life’s sake” that tells a story of people—like the evocative figures in Bellows’s The Lone Tenement.
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Image credit: George Bellows, "The Lone Tenement," (detail) 1909, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.83
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This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of struggle may suggest the minor key, but Marsalis ultimately chose upbeat music to celebrate those who fought and made it work.
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Image credit: Hawkins Bolden, Untitled, 1980/1987, shovel head, garden hose, and wire, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.10
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Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser” and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
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Image credit: Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser (detail), c. 1485/1490, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.33
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Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river paintings. Ho responds to Voyage of Life with an original suite. Starting with simple harmonies to represent childhood, he gradually introduces complexity.
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Image credit: Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1842, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.16.1
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Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—similar to the boy in Margaret Burroughs’s linocut, who hides himself. Her song “Forever” invites listeners not to hide, but to shine and share their “inner light” with the world.
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Image credit: Margaret Burroughs, Sleeping Boy (also known as Mexican Boy) (detail), 1953, linocut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.28
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In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time.
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Image credit: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Laocoön, c. 1610/1614, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.18.1
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Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil “Blue Butterfly.” The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.
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Image credit: Marc Chagall, Orphée, 1969, stone and glass mosaic, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, 2011.60.104.1–10
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In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html.
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