Minnesota Public Radio’s Classical MPR recently aired a broadcast discussing the connection between visual art and music. Here to talk to Minnesota Marine Art Museum curator Jon Swanson, MPR host Andrea Blain’s piece comes on the heels of a Minnesota Beethoven Festival performance by The Parker Quartet which was hosted by the museum.
In the piece Blain pairs Classical Music with some of the fine art hanging at the MMAM. She first gets a little introduction to the artwork by Swanson who, “discusses the human relationship and artists’ responses to water, as well as some of the pieces featured in the museum.” For example, their first stop is in front of the understated painting by Vincent Van Gogh which hangs in the museum. Swanson sees past the muted colors of the painting in this coastal Dutch seaside scene and into the intricacies of color that appear upon further inspection. Blain then refers to Richard Strauss’s Aus Italien – On the Beach at Sorrento, to which the listener is treated to a detail of the work.
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum sits right on the banks of the Mississippi River just minutes from Downtown Winona, where it features, “Great art inspired by water.”
Listen to the Minnesota Public Radio broadcast here
Learn more about the Minnesota Marine Art Museum here