First the Smithsonian, then the Guggenheim, now the Museum of Science. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Harold Varmus (left), President of New
York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and his son, jazz
composer and trumpeter Jacob Varmus (right), are bringing their “Genes & Jazz” program to the MOS on Nov. 4. Their gig compares cell biology to musical
development through a multimedia experience featuring the Jacob Varmus
Quintet. It comes in three parts: The Cell, Evolution, and Cancer.
“We both felt that there were unexplored
similarities between jazz and
science,” Jacob Varmus told the New Yorker. “They
both involve investigating patterns and structures and how things work.
Science and jazz are also both fringe communities in this country, and
so we figured we could tell a parallel story.” Tix, $15, at the box office, at 617-723-2500, or at mos.org/events. Pix: PLoS (left) and his web site (right).
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