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"Toronto Music Garden"
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Julie Moir Messervy 
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The Toronto Music Garden

The old hard hat geometry of the cities of this world
speed-straithing highways has freed up this ground
out from under its heavy-lid concrete/asphalt sarcophagus.
Reborn in sunlight it is the garden it is meant to be.
HOORAY!

Our heavy lidded eyes once  saw only Fugi-san's
Euclidian perfection.  Now Mandelbrot's fractal/quaternion
new millennium geometryrefocusses every mountain'
and microcosm, the whole Creation into eye-of-God beauty.
HOORAY!

Guerilla fighters saving old enclaves in this city
tree by tree, cottage and house, armed with council hearings
whisper this comfort into the branches of our beloved trees:
This is the beginning of the world as parkland regenerated.
HOORAY!

Once a mulberry worm spun her silk wings in fantastic colour
and flew to her kindred spirit in the emperor's kimono
they rested there the four of them - eternal quaternion -
self-reflective - anticipating the millennium flying toward us.
HOORAY!

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Location: Queen's Quay West west of EMS Services building
Sponsor: Various, see below
Year: Installed in 1999
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Julie Messervy designed the waterfront Music Garden in collaboration with landscape architects from the city’s Parks and Recreation department. 

The garden design interprets in nature Bach’s First Suite for Unaccompanied 
Cello, with each dance movement within the suite corresponding to a different section in the garden. 

Two Canadian artists created special features for the Music Garden—Tom Tollefson (architectural blacksmith) fabricated the Music Pavilion, and Anne Roberts (Feir Mill Design Inc.) designed the Maypole. 
 





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