As part of Teachers College Columbia University Diversity in Classical Music Project, ENSEMBLE DU MONDE explore the rich history of classical music in a program that features composers from a myriad of backgrounds including African American and Jewish descent, and is highlighted by Béla Bartók, a genius who during World War II escaped his native homeland of Hungary to immigrate to America to start a new life. These composers and their heroic stories of struggle, in their own way, changed fabric of music, as we know it in America and throughout the world.