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.
Wind band composer Stephen Melillo presents his music and proves that, with the right reportoire, the wind band is even better than the symphony...
Spearfisher & Zsolt Bognár: Real Music
Kent State University offers a cutting-edge Bachelor of Music program that perfectly harmonizes the art and science of music. Let's go inside!