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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This week on David & Art, we look back at Hamilton—ten years after it shook up Broadway, blended hip-hop with history, and got everyone talking (and rhyming) about the Founding Fathers. -
This week on David & Art, we look back at Hamilton—ten years after it shook up Broadway, blended hip-hop with history, and got everyone talking (and rhyming) about the Founding Fathers.
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This week on David and Art, a chance encounter with a local production leads straight into the spotlight of a singular American talent.
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This week on David and Art, a chance encounter with a local production leads straight into the spotlight of a singular American talent.
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This is 103.3 Waco Public Radio. In the week's episode of David and Art, host David Smith explores how war, poetry, and painting have intersected in the lives of American soldiers—from World War II heroes to today’s veterans.
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This is 103.3 Waco Public Radio. In the week's episode of David and Art, host David Smith explores how war, poetry, and painting have intersected in the lives of American soldiers—from World War II heroes to today’s veterans.
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Host David Smith delves into how war, memory, and art can come together in unexpected ways.
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Host David Smith delves into how war, memory, and art can come together in unexpected ways.
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This week on David and Art...a surprising discovery leads to a reflection on how the door to great art never really closes, no matter when you walk through it.
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What happens when art asks more of us than we’re used to giving? And who’s still paying attention when it does?