Spirit of Music Statue (Baltimore, MD)
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Location
3070 N Charles Street, next to the BMA sculpture garden (Street View)
GPS: 39° 19′ 38.31″ N 76° 37′ 4.28″ W
History
Dedicated in 2002, The Spirit of Music is a memorial to a former Johns Hopkins University student. Rex Chao was shot and killed near the school’s Milton S Eisenhower Library on an evening in April, 1996, by a fellow student and former friend. Choa played violin for the Hopkins and Peabody Orchestras. He was nineteen years old when he died. Jud Hartmann, who’s Creator’s Game Monument stands outside of the Lacrosse Museum on campus, was commissioned to design the memorial by a committee established in the fallen scholar’s honor.
Notes
Installed between the Johns Hopkins Monument and the BMA sculpture garden, the statue rests inside of a well-trimmed circular hedge. With violin in left hand and bow in right, the two-thirds scale bronze cast gazes optimistically at all those passing by.
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Links
- Article in The Johns Hopkins Magazine
- Johns Hopkins Newsletter column
- On Panoramio & Flickr
…remembering Rex, now in heaven.
An Old Friend
13 Mar 10 at 7:37 am