Special double episode
VIENNA, AUSTRIA: Imagine you’re walking down the hall of a prestigious university. Your steps betray the confidence of having earned it all: a doctorate, a high-ranking place in the scholarly paper citation index and, recently, that university’s chair of musicology.
As you arrive at your office door, a man runs up to you. He notifies you that a drink was spilled down the hall and needs to be cleaned up. You look at him quizzically and, unconsciously pointing out your non-whiteness, he responds, aren’t you the janitor?
Such a situation may sound unusual - even comical – yet is a common experience among non-white academics.
Musicologists Philip Ewell (Hunter College) and Julio Mendívil (University of Vienna) join us to present a phenomenon of racism that doesn’t stop at a non-white professor’s office door.
Arsentiy Kharitonov, a major classical pianist, performs live and is interviewed about classical music and today and what's missing from it.
Wind band composer Stephen Melillo presents his music and proves that, with the right reportoire, the wind band is even better than the symphony...
Kent State University offers a cutting-edge Bachelor of Music program that perfectly harmonizes the art and science of music. Let's go inside!