Going all year round. Its a pleasure to have you. If youre not yet a member, if youre 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 pick up a copy of the magazine if you dont have one already and find us online. Just as a quick reminder briefly, take a moment to silence any mobile devices or your cell phones. Always good to double, triple check, especially because we have cspan in the house tonight. 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 center today and that back door is blocked. Use this door to your right as you exit. I think thats all the announcements i have for you. Again, thank you to cspan for being here today. Finally let me tell you about our guest today. Jonathan rosenberg. Jonathan teach
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
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
Today we have an entire explanation so we didnt need a small one this time. Not only do we have a whole exhibition that features the speakers this evening so if you didnt see shes on one of the video monitors upstairs and is also very generous with her ti time. We certainly couldnt have done the exhibition without her help so we owe her a bit of gratitude. Serena zabin professor of Early American History and director of the program of american studies at carleton college. Received her undergraduate from those in college and phd from rutgers university. Her new book, we will let people get settled in here. I guess we got started a little early. Her new book goes deeply into boston 1770. Looking at how the soldiers that have been stationed here since the fall of 1768 were not just a seen as an Occupying Force but the neighbors and customers and competitors or in other words as people. And often repeated narrative of increasing tensions that reached a boiling point on march 5. Some soldie
Any of our volunteers. You can also pick up a copy of the magazine if you dont have it already and find us online at smithsonianassociates. Org. Please take a moment to silence any mobile devices. Housee cspan in the. Onight just an additional note, our exit, generally we have one in the back and one to your right. You may have noticed there is a lot going on in the Ridley Center today, and that backdoor is blocked, so please, for your safety and others, use this door to your right as the exit. I think that is all the announcements i have for you, and again, thank you to cspan for being here today. Finally, let me tell you about our guest today, jonathan rosenberg. Jonathan rosenberg teaches 20th at the u. S. History Graduate Center of the university of new york. Receiving his phd in history from harvard, rosenberg, a graduate of julliard, worked as a Classical Musician. He is also the author of dangerous mines Classical Music in america from the great war to the cold war and it is ava