The Center for American Culture and Ideas has announced plans to hold its inaugural conference, “The Future of (High) Culture in America,” on March 20 and 21 in Tucson, Arizona. Keynote speaker for the conference will be Terry Teachout, drama critic of the Wall Street Journal. Among others scheduled to give lectures and appear as panelists are Daniel Asia, CACI’s founder and director; composer and writer Jan Swafford; Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras; George Hanson, music director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra; and Elizabeth Kendall, a professor and writer at New York University. Panels include “Photography/visual arts/museums in the iPhone age”; “Classical dance in the new world”; and “The internet and high culture, the new self, and the word.” Closing out the conference in March will be a concert featuring the world premiere of a new work by Gunther Schuller, with the Miro Quartet. Based at the University of Arizona, CACI’s stated mission is to “combat the rising ignorance of the American intellectual experience” within and outside the university through lectures, presentations, and conferences, and performances. For more information on the conference or to register, visit caci.arizona.edu.
Posted December 9, 2013
