Professor Carol
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. —Sergei Rakhmaninov I first saw these words beaming from a wall at the Meyerson Symphony Center, home of the Dallas Symphony. Despite my lifetime spent studying Russian music, they were new … Read more
Two sessions of the informal series “Getting to Know Opera” have now been completed! The first was a couple of weeks ago covering Rossini’s comic opera La Cenerentola. And last night, I gave a session on Puccini’s tear-jerker La Bohème. These talks both were offered … Read more
Look. I was right there with you. Opera once was new to me too . . . and I wanted none of it. So I am doubly delighted with the emails received since our session preparing for the Met’s streaming production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. … Read more
In homes across the world, parents are grappling with suddenly having charge of their children’s formal education. These families have been forced into accidental homeschooling. Our ancestors would have laughed at our anxiety, since education for most of human history was primarily in a parent’s … Read more
Join me on Friday, April 24, at 8:30 p.m. EDT for a one-hour live, online session about Gioachino Rossini’s La Cenerentola. The session will prepare you for the free performance Sunday evening April 26 of Rossini’s delightful “Cinderella” opera to be streamed by The Metropolitan Opera. (The … Read more
I hope nobody else does this kind of thing regularly. I’m a klutz. Klutz is not quite the right word. Some in my family would say disaster or catastrophe, at least when it comes to handling physical objects. By physical objects I mean breakable things … Read more
The temptation is strong to write about topics arising from the circumstances that have turned people’s lives upside down in recent weeks. On the other hand, when most of us look out of our windows, we see spring. Spring flowers, bushes, and trees know nothing … Read more
“What do you think of Hans Rookmaaker?” That question bounced into the chat box during one of my talks at our virtual “Greenville SC” Great Homeschool Convention three weeks ago. “Hmm,” I thought. “Now there’s a new name for me!” Following chat activity while delivering … Read more
Like you, we are pondering ways to use this bizarre shutdown of our society for the best good. Our own days still follow familiar patterns because we work at home. Thus, the time feels pretty normal. Never fond of errands and ordinarily traveling about a … Read more
