The Nation's Stage: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1971-2011 (Stonesong Press Books)
By Michael Dolan.
Description
“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare, and the new frontier for which I campaign in public life can also be a new frontier for American art.” —John F. Kennedy When the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in our nation’s capital on September 8, 1971, its mission was to be the “national ce...
ISBN(s)
1451629443, 9781451629446
