When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.