Over the weekend of March 18-19, Assistant Professor of Italian Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, was invited to join the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in two concerts presenting Liszt's Dante Symphony. Combs-Schilling and the symphony's maestro, Rossen Milanov, held a pre-concert talk about Dante's life and poetics, nineteenth-century orchestral music, "high" and "popular" culture, and the cathartic power of music after the pandemic. 

You can watch a recording of Combs-Schilling and Milanov's discussion from earlier in the week.