Upcoming Events: Jim Weiss, Wagner, and More

September 21, 2020September 2, 2020 by Reynolds

Jim Weiss and Carol Together

The announcement is official now. Carol and Jim Weiss are teaming up for a 4-part online series on music and storytelling. The first session kicks off on Wednesday, September 16 at 7 pm EDT. The topic is “Going West in the USA.” Jim will tell the stories of “Fulton’s Steamboat” and “The Railroad Men” and Carol and Jim will discuss the broader topic of music and the arts of Westward migration. Read more.

Getting To Know Wagner – Das Rheingold

A Night at the Opera a continues with Wagner this coming Tuesday, September 8 at 8 pm EDT. Das Rheingold is the first in Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. Read more.

Hymn Workshops

Save the date for Carol’s next installment in the Hymn Workshop series: Tuesday, October 27 at 8 pm EDT. This session will cover Hymns from the era of Bach and Handel, the great German chorale tradition. Read more.

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”