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Why I Love Singers

November 8, 2013October 23, 2013 by Professor Carol

Why do I love singers so much? The memory hit me yesterday as I drove in to deliver the pre-concert talk for Deborah Voigt’s concert for the Van Cliburn Series. It goes back to a Miss Virginia pageant in 1967. No, I wasn’t in it (I wish). … 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.”