{"id":2333564,"date":"2026-03-17T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333564"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:37:39","slug":"adam-gopnik-hails-american-musics-immigrant-roots-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/adam-gopnik-hails-american-musics-immigrant-roots-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Gopnik hails American music’s immigrant roots : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this 250th anniversary year of the United States, pianist Lara Downes is traveling the country collecting conversations with scholars, searching for our history through songs. Her latest stop is New York for a visit with Adam Gopnik, staff writer for <\/em>The New Yorker.<\/p>\n

Adam Gopnik knows a lot about a lot of things, as evidenced by his polymathic writing in The New Yorker<\/em> magazine, but two of his greatest passions are American history and American music. We’ve had the pleasure of exploring these intertwined topics over coffees and dinners, on concert stages, and now in-studio at NPR’s New York City bureau.<\/p>\n