Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of Dvořák's Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University Sidney Outlaw, baritone singer; Professor of Voice, Manhattan School of Music; Voice Faculty, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival Moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship In 1892, the master Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, teaching in New York City, prophesied that the melodies of African-American musical genres would inspire a “great and noble school” of American classical music. But the Black musical motherlode instead fostered popular genres known the world over; American composers mainly squandered the opportunity at hand. A modernist “standard narrative,” popularized by Aaron Copland, kept a dis
James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University Sidney Outlaw, baritone singer; Professor of Voice, Manhattan School of Music; Voice Faculty, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival Moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship In 1892, the master Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, teaching in New York City, prophesied that the melodies of African-American musical genres would inspire a “great and noble school” of American classical music. But the Black musical motherlode instead fostered popular genres known the world over; American composers mainly squandered the opportunity at hand. A modernist “sta
The State Ballet of Rhode Island returns to Cranston’s Park Theatre for two performances of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” on Saturday, April 1 at 1:30 and 5:30 …
The State Ballet of Rhode Island returns to Cranston’s Park Theatre for two performances of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” on Saturday, April 1 at 1:30 and 5:30 …