What’s So Great About Mozart?

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 by Reynolds

Boy genius? Unmatched musical master? Semi-tragic figure plagued by self-created problems? What about the trendy idea that listening to Mozart’s music will make babies smarter?

What accounts for the mystique behind this composer? Join us on February 11 and find out as we discuss what makes Mozart such a big deal.

February 11 at 8 p.m. EST

$5 (free to members of the Circle of Scholars)

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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.”