s/culture/la-et-cm-secretary-of-culture-notebook- 20130120,0,162825.story latimes.com The case for naming a U.S. secretary of Culture Music critic Mark Swed says it's time we have someone in the Cabinet who can speak to our common identity: Arts and the humanities help us figure out who we are. By Mark S

er, critic Wall Street Journal Howard Shore, composer Elaine Sisman, Columbia University Steve Smith, critic New York Times and Time Out New York Mark Swed, critic LA Times Christoph Wolff, Harvard University Best regards, Lynne Lynne Meloccaro Executive Director American Symphony Orchestra 263 We

565 Leon Botstein conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. (Michael Robinson Chavez, Los Angeles Times I January t4, 2009) By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic August 28, 2013 2:20p.m. They laughed when Leon Botstein became president of Bard College in 1975, at the very idea

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