Discusses his new book, dangerous melodies. Classical music and america from the great war through the cold war. It explores the intersection of politics and music in the first half of the 20th century. Mr. Rosenberg describes how music can serve as a tool of both outreach and xenophobia depending on the Political Climate of the era. Good afternoon. Hello everyone. Im amanda sciandro and on behalf of smithsonian associates, its my pleasure to welcome you here for Classical Music and American Foreign relations, a complicated to it. Thank you to our members. Its your support they keep this going all year round. Thank you very much. We are going deep into december for the holidays. It is a pleasure to have you. If you are not yet a member or curious about our membership levels or programs, please feel free to talk to me or any of our lovely volunteers just outside the doors. You can also pick up a copy of the magazine if you do not have one already. You can find us online at smithsonian a
Discussion with julian, id like to share a little bit about the history of the strand. The strand was founded in 1927 on book row. Stretching from union square, book row gradually dwindled from 48 bookstores until, after 93 years, the strand is the sole survivor. Now run by Third Generation owner nancy bass. We want to thank all for our support because without all of you, we wouldnt be where we are today. And also an update on the store in case youre curious, the physical store in union square is open, weve been open for about two weeks. So wear a mask and stop by if youre in the area. Tonight were excited to have Julian Zelizer who is celebrating the release of his book, burning down the house. Julian is a class of 1941 professor of history of Public Affairs at Princeton University and a cnn political analyst. His most recent book coauthored by our moderator, kevin kruse and the fierce urgency of now. Zelizer has been awarded fellowships with the New York Historical society, the russe
A caller who itself is now in poland somebody because he was the only one basically who hasnt taken the hits from the government he had to leave the country he was basically forced them to detain her now by refusing to be edged out of her own country as so many other opposition figures have she has also been involved in the founding of a new party but i think that the early early early days of that kind of thing now at the moment this is about the symbolism of these protests coming out week after week and she is certainly one of the most recognizable and most competent faces of those protests even if those protests are happening without kind of an obvious organization or leader indeed coming out week after week i mean we saw sunday more siege protests that we have the same problems things farm what is now going to happen and what is next for the opposition. Im sorry there is no road map to this this is a country basically that had no politics of the possible to the century where one ma
If youre not yet a member, curious about our member levels or programs please feel tree to talk to me or any of other other volunteers just outside the doors. You can also pick up a copy of the magazine and find us online at smithsonian associates. Org. Just as a quick reminder briefly please take a moment to please silence any mobile devices or cellphones, whatever you have with you. Always good to double, triple check especially because we have cspan with us tonight so your ring tone will be saved in perpetuity. Just an additional note, our exits generally we have one in the back and one to your right. Today please just use the right side door. You may have noticed we have a lot going on in the ripply center today, and that back door is blocked. So please to your safety and others use this back door to your right for your exit. Thank you to cspan for being here today. Finally, let me tell you about our guest today, jonathan rosenberg. He teaches 20th century u. S. History at Hunter C
I think you need about 25 points to get back to the previous record that was set, were about 25. 68 points below it. The s p futures indicated up by 21 s p has now been on a sevenday winning streak, and youre looking at the longest winning streak its seen since april of 2019 nasdaq was down yesterday, but it is indicated up by close to 60 points this morning the dow was up by over 350 points yesterday to kick off the week treasury market this morning, right now youre looking at the tenyear yielding right about where it has been. 0. 599 that yields a little higher than we have been sitting. Brian, this news about putin and this potential vaccine is huge, but i think we do need to take it with a grain of salt. Youve been all over this already this morning. Well, trying to make sense of it, becky. Good morning as well you have what you think are the markets sort of key points, right . Trillions of dollars in stimulus, potential for payroll tax cuts, all the market themes weve been talking