b'Music as a Mirror of HistoryBroadcast December 621In the worlds of painting and literature, its easy to seewhere art and history intersect. But what about music?What is the juncture between influential compositions andthe times that surrounded them? Professor Greenberg has aLaw School for Everyone: Legislation & Regulationfascinating and provocative premise: Despite the universality of music and our habit of listening completely divorced fromBroadcast December 2230 (excluding December 26)any historical context, music carries a rich spectrum ofsocial, cultural, historical, and philosophical information, A recent addition to traditional law school topics, legislation and all grounded in the experience of the composer. regulation are becoming a mainstay. In fact, its critical for students Dr. Robert Greenberg is Music Historian-in-Residence with to understand how these forms of law govern countless aspects of San Francisco Performances. A Steinway Artist, he has seen hisour livesfrom workplace safety to our vehicles and the speed ofcompositions performed worldwide. For The Great Courses,our internet connection. Professor Smith explains how lawmakershe has recorded more than 500 lectures on a range of and lawyers navigate the letter versus the spirit of the law, andcomposers and classical music genres. when a court should step in to impose their own interpretations.Peter J. Smith is the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law at George Washington Law School. Before joining GWU, he was an attorney at the Justice Department where he defended theconstitutionality of a number of federal statutes. 51'