Everything Old is New Again: How Does Centuries-Old Expression Find New Meaning and Vitality in our Contemporary World?

Nina Cardona holds a degree in music history from Converse College. Just two days after graduation, she started playing classical music as a part-time host on Nashville Public Radio.  She was WPLN’s All Things Considered host for eleven years, during which time her reporting focused on arts and culture stories.

Nina is a classically trained singer and open water swimmer who dabbles in photography and a variety of needle crafts.

Nina will lead a conversation about how music or art or writings from people who lived very long ago in what seems like very different times still speaks to us today — because they are expressions of humanity that in some cases help us realize how similar we really are to past generations, in other cases because they help us see our own times in a different light. It’s the way that Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites still hit us right in the solar plexus, and how MacBeth and King Lear still work as commentary on contemporary politics.