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According to sculptor Alan LeQuire's website, Musica is a bronze group of nine dancing nude figures standing in Buddy Killen Circle, the roundabout at the top of Music Row, Nashville. The Nashville Historical Foundation dates it to 2003, and LeQuire gives its height as roughly 40 feet.
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Musica (nine nudes sculpture)
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Music Row's welcome is nine dancers, each more than twice life-size, bursting out of a roundabout. Musica, by Nashville sculptor Alan LeQuire, stands in Buddy Killen Circle at the top of Music Row, beside Owen Bradley Park, according to the Nashville Historical Foundation.
The foundation dates the work to 2003; LeQuire says it was transported from a bronze foundry in Wyoming to Nashville in 2004. He describes nine dancing figures in a circular composition roughly 40 feet tall, five springing from the base in a vase form and four rising in the centre. Each is 14 to 15 feet, and the base is part bronze and part natural limestone boulders. LeQuire calls it the largest bronze figure group in the United States, and NewsChannel 5 says it is considered to be.
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A large bronze group at the centre of a busy roundabout on Music Row, next to Owen Bradley Park. It is seen from the surrounding streets and park; the roundabout carries traffic, and the Fountains of Musica Foundation describes plans to redesign the roundabout around it.
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At Buddy Killen Circle, the roundabout at Music Square East and Division Street at the top of Music Row, Nashville, beside Owen Bradley Park; viewed from the surrounding streets and park.
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