Daniel Asia

October 18, 2023

Wynton Marsalis: What We Need Now

Composer and Professor of Composition Daniel Asia traces the rise of Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis

January 10, 2023

Culture and Cultural Appropriation

Daniel Asia

The diffusion of art and culture across continents and oceans typically accompanies great human progress. The only “appropriation” in all of this is carried out by those who politiciz......

October 24, 2022

In Honor of Roger Scruton: Reflections on Beauty and Photography

Daniel Asia

Composer and professor of composition Daniel Asia admires the late philosopher Roger Scruton but thinks he had photography all wrong.

July 22, 2022

The Maestro Speaks

Daniel Asia

A review of "Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century," by Leonard Slatkin, Amadeus, 2021, 238 pp., $23.49 hardcover.

August 23, 2021

The University-Industrial-Woke Complex

Daniel Asia

A review of Beyond Woke by Michael Rectenwald.

June 7, 2021

Where Does the University Go from Here?

Daniel Asia

A review of "A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream" by Yuval Levin.