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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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.
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Because it’s art like any other kind, popular music does what all art can do.
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Because it’s art like any other kind, popular music does what all art can do.
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Certain works of art have the power divide your life into before and after.
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Certain works of art have the power divide your life into before and after.
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International piano players for a short time transformed the sound of Music City, USA.
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International piano players for a short time transformed the sound of Music City, USA.