This assignment sequence consists of the preparatory work for three major essays (nos. 3, 4, and 5) in the central weeks of the FWS “Sounding Together: Music, Diplomacy, and Imagemaking.” Students wrote a paper adopting a historically based persona specifying a musical program to be sent on a cultural diplomacy tour abroad, then one synthesizing major units covered in the course, and then an artist’s profile based on in-class interviews of two musician diplomats.