Composer Adam Schoenberg makes notes on the score for his new work, "Picture Studies." It's inspired by artwork in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Composer Adam Schoenberg and Assistant Conductor Aram Demirjian in Helzberg Hall at a Kansas City Symphony rehearsal of Schoenberg's "Finding Rothko (2006)." It was commissioned by music director Michael Stern.
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Leesa Fanning, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, stands in front of Mark Rothko's
Untitled No. 11, 1963 at the Nelson.
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Kandinsky is one of the artists whose works in the Nelson inspired composer Adam Schoenberg's "Picture Studies." Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866-1944. Rose with Gray, 1924.
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Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of art.
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Joan Miró , Spanish, 1893-1983.
Women at Sunrise, 1946
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Albert Bloch, American. 1882-1961.
Die drei Pierrots Nr. 2 (The Three Pierrots No. 2), 1911
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Francis Blake , American, 1850-1913.
Pigeons in Flight, 1889