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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David Smith gives some insight as to how nations use are and architecture to define who they are. -
Art doesn't just reflect history - it can shape how we see ourselves.
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College campuses are places for discovery, and not all of it happens in a classroom. Today on David and Art, host David Smith looks at the role theater can play in a university education. -
College campuses are places for discovery, and not all of it happens in a classroom. Today on David and Art, host David Smith looks at the role theater can play in a university education.
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Today on David and Art, host David Smith traces the unusual path of a musician whose work helped bridge classical experimentation and rock and roll.
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Today on David and Art, host David Smith traces the unusual path of a musician whose work helped bridge classical experimentation and rock and roll.
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On today's David and Art, David Smith connects Art and History through paintings that reveal how Europe followed the American Civil War, in real time.
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On today's David and Art, David Smith connects Art and History through paintings that reveal how Europe followed the American Civil War, in real time.
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On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes us inside a jazz club in New York’s West Village for a look at what happens when musicians who’ve never met share a stage—and what that kind of collaboration can teach us.
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On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes us inside a jazz club in New York’s West Village for a look at what happens when musicians who’ve never met share a stage—and what that kind of collaboration can teach us.
