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BSO Family Concert-Something Borrowed, Something True: What is American Music

Thomas Wilkins sitting on the edge of the stage during a performance talking to an audience of children and their families.
BSO Family Concert-Something Borrowed, Something True: What is American Music
Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins, Conductor

What is American music? Our national soundscape is rich in diversity: diversity of style, of language, and of cultural contexts. It is indeed this diversity that makes something "American." Together, we observe the beauty of unity as opposed to uniformity.

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