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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
A load transmission of the virus while holding the line on hard hit areas at least thats the way its being conceptualized the white house calls it a guideline to be used by governors as they make the decisions about when and how to open the communities in their states governors call the shots thats a direct quote those words came out of the president s mouth as he shared his 3 phase plan to deal with corona virus while trying to restart what has turned into just a dismal economy phase one it will go into effect in communities that have shown improvement for 2 consecutive weeks it will allow people to gather in groups of 10 allow some businesses to reopen and will allow limited but more travel nonetheless limited but more trouble than we have now face to social distancing continues under this phase with gatherings of no more than 50 people 1050. Right more businesses are going to be added to the list and travel can resume thats face to face 3 invasions kind of a return to normalcy right
The economy as early as next month. Almost 2 Million People have died worldwide. The imf and world bank prepare to meet amid the most down the worst downturn since the 1930s. The new reality of collapsed trade and mounting unemployment. Oily we are seeing reversing gains as much as a percent at one point in london. 25 , sames now down for wti. We had the reduction coming from opec and its allies are that would have been the sickest single largest in history. Goldman sachs but says it is insufficient. U. S. Futures gained at the open, reversing earlier prices. The nikkei futures also down 1 . We have markets closed on holidays including australia and new zealand. Global cases also affecting sentiment in the markets. Those cases rising towards 2 million with the United States the epicenter of you break after fatalities in the country surpassed italy. There are signs of optimism in the hotspots like new york. Lets bring in Sophie Kamaruddin with the latest. We have seen President Trump. A