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War of the Worlds: The Night That Terrified America, presented by Hopkins at Home

See and hear the terrifyingly true tale of how Orson Welles’ unparalleled artistry panicked a nation. The infamous Mercury Theatre on the Air dramatization of the H.G. Wells alien-invasion classic, War of the Worlds, remains a masterclass lesson in the power of mass media. Join Associate Professor and Chair, Daniel H. Foster, Peabody Institute – on the 85th anniversary of the original broadcast ­– for a special Halloween edition of Hopkins at Home, exploring the Golden Age of radio drama, what lessons the past holds for our present and how silence, in an invisible medium, can be the most frightening sound effect of all. Daniel H. Foster chairs the Liberal Arts Department at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. A scholar with a particular interest in the intersection of music, literature, and drama, he is the author of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Greeks (Cambridge 2010) and is currently at work on From Bards to Blackface, or How the Minstrel Changed His Tune. His papers and articles have been published in journals and outlets ranging from Journal of American Drama and Theatre to Smithsonian Magazine to the Huffington Post. Foster received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Comparative Literature Department, earning honors for his dissertation on Richard Wagner’s use of classical Greek drama and poetry as models for his operatic treatment of German myth and national identity. He was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and taught in Penn’s Music Department. If you would like to listen to a recording of the 1939 broadcast in full, visit    • War Of The Worlds - Original 1938 Radio Br...   #science #story #space #alien #storytelling #lecture #war #mythology #song #university #learning #jhu #hopkinspossible #johnshopkins #alumni