The Song of the New World
By Timothy Sandefur
On an April evening in 1895, a twenty-year-old University of Nebraska student attended a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which was touring what were then the Western states.1 The orchestra was in Lincoln that night to share the latest cultural wonders of America, and this student—an aspiring writer named Willa Cather—was especially excited…
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