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Can music heal our national divisions?

Associate Professor of Musicology Michael Alan Anderson
Eastman School of Music
Associate Professor of Musicology Michael Alan Anderson

"We should not discount the power of music to bring Americans together."

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Anderson remembers the day one-hundred-fifty years ago when the National Peace Jubilee sought to achieve precisely this goal in the wake of a moment far more divisive than today — the Civil War.