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When art museums double as concert halls

Performances reflect lively mix of institutions’ aesthetics, legacies

By Matthew Guerrieri

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  October 23, 2011

As impressive as the Music Room was, in the end, Isabella Stewart Gardner simply needed more space to hang pictures. “Mrs. Jack” loved music - she cultivated musicians, and she was a fixture in her balcony seat at Boston Symphony concerts. And, after Jack Gardner’s death, constructing her Fenway Court palazzo, she included a clean, white-plastered, two-story Music Room. Music has graced galleries throughout history, of course, and especially since the musical avant-garde made common cause with similarly cutting-edge painters in bypassing traditional venues.

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