The Music Concourse

The concourse was laid out following the 1894 Mid Winter Fair and dates as a site to 1900. Monuments stand around it: the Miguel de Cervantes Memorial by Joseph Jacinto Mora, bronze and natural stone, 1916, showing Cervantes looking down at Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, who kneel before him; two cast concrete sphinxes by Arthur Putnam of 1903 flanking the footpath entrance to the de Young parking area; the Robert Emmet Memorial by Jerome Connor, bronze on granite, 1919, the gift of James D. Phelan, at whose dedication Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish Republic in 1919, spoke; the Ludwig van Beethoven Monument of 1915, the gift of the Beethoven Maennerchor of New York, dedicated on 15 August 1915; the Goethe and Schiller Monument by Ernst Rietschel, 1901; the Giuseppe Verdi Monument by Orazio Grossoni, a 52-ton statue given by the Italian Colony of San Francisco; the Rideout Fountain by M. Earl Cummings, a saber-toothed tiger in combat with a cobra-headed serpent, the bequest of Corinne Rideout; the Pool of Enchantment by M. Earl Cummings, a young Indian boy playing a musical pipe to two listening California mountain lions, east of the de Young Museum; the U. S. Grant Memorial by Rupert Schmid; the Sundial by M. Earl Cummings, the gift of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in California; the Roman Gladiator by Guillaumo Geefs; the Lion by R. Hinton Perry; and the Cider Press by Thomas Shields-Clarke, purchased by M. H. de Young. The Page Fountains of 1914, two circular reflecting pools with granite coping, were a gift of the widow of Charles Page, and the Phoebe Hearst Fountain of 1926 is a cast stone double tier fountain with a pair of flanking classical staircases. The North Tunnel under John F. Kennedy Drive, designed by Coxhead & Coxhead in 1897, is approximately 130 feet long, with carved Rocklin granite arches loosely based on the Arch of Titus.