Why Did American Classical Music “Stay White”?  Dvořák predicted that a ‘great and noble school’ of American classical music would arise from ‘Negro melodies.’ But the black musical motherlode migrated to popular genres; American classical music stayed white. The reasons are both obvious and not. – Joe Horowitz
$8.27 Million & Counting: Metropolitan Museum’s Disposable Irving Gift of Chinese Art  When I attended the celebratory press conference in 2015 that announced multiple major benefactions to the Met’s Asian Art Department, little did I know that a few years later the Met would auction off a good chunk of those lauded gifts. – Lee Rosenbaum
Community Engagement Resources  The beginning of a new academic year feels like a good time to work on making all of these resources more widely known. ArtsEngaged has the following available for people in the field who want to support community engagement. – Doug Borwick
Recent Listening In Brief (really brief)  Rondi Marsh, The Pink Room
Bill O’Connell And The Afro-Caribbean Ensemble,
Wind Off The Hudson (Savant)
– Doug Ramsey
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