Having photographed a replica of this fountain on the grounds of Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michgan, I hoped somehow to see the original
in Stockholm. With only two hours before we had to leave the city, I followed a map to the Orchestra Hall, made a left turn, and
there it was before me.

The original seems to have less space than the version at Cranbrook, but the big difference is that it contains a sculpture of Orpheus, the Greek
god of music, hovering six meters in the air. The bronze figures below Orpheus are listening to him playing on the lyre given to him by
Apollo. My photographs of the Cranbrook version
are at http://www.pbase.com/drjaysel/eight_photographs_of_the_figures_of_the_orpheus_fountain

The fountain was modeled by Milles and cast in plaster in his Cranbrook studios and was then sent to Stockholm where it was cast in bronze by
the Royal Swedish Bronze Casting Company and completed in 1936.

Having seen both versions with my own eyes, my appreciation of Carl Milles has increased even more, something that I thought impossible
just from seeing the beautiful fountain at Cranbrook.