David Smith
Host of David and ArtDavid Smith, host of David and Art, is an American historian with broad interests in his field. He’s been at Baylor University since 2002 teaching classes in American history, military history, and cultural history. For eight years he wrote an arts and culture column for the Waco Tribune-Herald, and his writings on history, art, and culture have appeared in other newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News.
The very first record he remembers listening to when he was little was Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and that set him on a lifelong path of loving music and the arts. He’s loved history for almost as long, and finally saw them come together in his career. He believes that history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history—that they co-exist and are best understood together.
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Every once in a while, I think it's probably worth our time to talk through Modernism, both as an idea and as an art form that's a manifestation of that idea. -
Every once in a while, I think it's probably worth our time to talk through Modernism, both as an idea and as an art form that's a manifestation of that idea.
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Long before people could share photos with a tap of a screen, printed artwork helped shape how people saw the world. Today on David and Art, host David Smith looks at one company that did exactly that.
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Long before people could share photos with a tap of a screen, printed artwork helped shape how people saw the world. Today on David and Art, host David Smith looks at one company that did exactly that.
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What does American music sound like? On today's David and Art, host David Smith explores that question through the work of one remarkable composer.
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What does American music sound like? On today's David and Art, host David Smith explores that question through the work of one remarkable composer.
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Our culture has never had more music at its fingertips, but does that make it harder to agree on who truly stands above the rest? Host David Smith explores that question on today's edition of David and Art.
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Our culture has never had more music at its fingertips, but does that make it harder to agree on who truly stands above the rest? Host David Smith explores that question on today's edition of David and Art.
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Why do the arts matter? On today's David and Art, host David Smith explores a question that's been part of American life since the nations earliest days.
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Why do the arts matter? On today's David and Art, host David Smith explores a question that's been part of American life since the nations earliest days.
