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- Title
The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Authors
Doering, James M.; Bell, Lauren C.
- Abstract
The U.S. Supreme Court has for decades served as an unlikely venue for the performance of music. Between 1988 and 2020, more than 125 musicians, including some of the country's most prominent performers, appeared for intimate audiences in the Supreme Court's East Conference Room. The concerts were officially "off the record," but details survive in records kept by the U.S. Supreme Court, papers of former justices and friends of the court involved in the creation of the programs, and in interviews with individuals who supported and participated in the events. This article reconstructs the history of this long running but little-known music series and contextualizes it within the court's culture and broader themes of access and power.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Supreme Court; CONCERT halls; CULTURE; JUSTICE administration; LEGAL ethics
- Publication
Journal of the Society for American Music, 2023, Vol 17, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
1752-1963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S175219632300010X