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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To kick off black history month Let’s remember a musician whose life spanned a big portion of the country’s history. -
To kick off black history month Let’s remember a musician whose life spanned a big portion of the country’s history.
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There’s complexity in all kinds of art, even the sort that looks simple.
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There’s complexity in all kinds of art, even the sort that looks simple.
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Reaching beyond show tunes and contemporary pieces, the music of Jules Bledsoe is both deeply personal and resonant.
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Reaching beyond show tunes and contemporary pieces, the music of Jules Bledsoe is both deeply personal and resonant.
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Looking back on a local documentary that more people should know about.
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Looking back on a local documentary that more people should know about.
