Two summers ago I had occasion to spend a week with gifted high school musicians at the Brevard Music Festival – an idyllic cultural retreat in the mountains of North Carolina. Jason Posnock, Brevard’s artistic administrator, is not only a superb violinist but a reader and thinker and believer in humanities-infused programing and pedagogy. Thanks to Jason, I was entrusted … [Read more...] about Are Orchestras “Better than Ever”? — What Not to Tell a Young Musician
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“Redes” Lives! — The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and what it says to us today
In his most important speech about the place of culture in the national experience, delivered at Amherst College mere weeks before his death, President John F. Kennedy said: “In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not ‘engineers of the soul.’ It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society -- in … [Read more...] about “Redes” Lives! — The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and what it says to us today