2. Andante molto mosso

Scene by the Brook.

After the Back Bay fill-in of the water, the Fenway became the last man-made land of Boston's neighborhoods to be created towards the west. The city of Boston established a Park Commission in 1875, with the advice of Frederick Law Olmsted: "He saw the problem as one of sanitary engineering and consistently refused to employ the term 'park' in connection with the project". After a great technological effort, supervised by Olmsted himself, the draining of the "stagnant and malodorous flats of the Muddy River" was solved, and at that point Olmsted started thinking of the recreational potential of the area and named the project the Back Bay Fens.