The Body Revealed, the Spirit Unbound

Join the West End Museum and the Peridot String Quartet for a clasical program that brings into dialogue the unflinching anatomical paintings of West End native Hyman Bloom with the searching, elemental music of his contemporary colleagues Alan Hovhaness and Jean Sibelius. Bloom’s cadaver studies—at once visceral and reverent—confront the physical reality of the human body while suggesting a mysterious passage beyond it. In parallel, the music traverses stark ritual, austere landscapes, and moments of luminous stillness, evoking forces that feel at once ancient and transcendent.

Together, these works invite reflection on the body as both material and vessel: a site of decay, transformation, and, perhaps, spiritual continuity. Moving between image and sound, the program creates a space where mortality and the possibility of transcendence are held in delicate, resonant tension.

Thank you to our sponsors, Boston Properties Inc. and the Beacon Hill Civic Association!

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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