Initiatives / Interventions Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Life is Short, but Art is Long 21 May 2017 Lecture by Fred Haight The role of Classical music. The case of Brahms, Dvorak and their collaborators to use the discoveries of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, to establish a new school of American music with Native and African American folk melodies (Spirituals), as the foundation.