In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time.

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Image credit: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Laocoön, c. 1610/1614, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.18.1

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Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s “Laocoön”

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