Gabe called again and asked if I wanted to see the Lara Downes and John McWhorter concert at the Mondavi Center in Davis. I said yes. So, off we went.
Lara Downes is a DJ at a San Francisco radio station (KDFC), and holds a position at Columbia University in New York City. She is a kind of evangelist for the works of Scott Joplin. One hundred years ago, there was an impressive movement to bring popular music and classical music together, exemplified by Scott Joplin, the musical "Shuffle Along," and the works of the Gershwins. One hundred years later, there is an opening for that movement again, and we should take it!
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