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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Cultural Importers: Musicians Cross Borders - Luckily

From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/21/2006

The Philadelphia Inquirer's music critic comments on the relationship between immigration policy and the arts:

"[I]mmigrant composers constantly come up with possibilities that others don't and probably would never imagine. . . . Theoretically, great art would be created no matter what. But would our ears have the proper conditioning to perceive it were we not surrounded by immigrants, legal and otherwise, in our everyday lives?"

Read the entire article at: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/14619436.htm


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