Berlin Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 229

January 12, 2022June 21, 2019 by Hank Reynolds

Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op. 57 (Appassionata) Rip out the front page! I can take a hint, especially if it’s more or less a directive issued publicly. Professor Carol said in her last post that perhaps I might feature a middle-period Beethoven sonata as a Friday … Read more

Salon Christophori

June 20, 2019 by Professor Carol

Departure Day of a tour never gets portrayed properly in the brochures. For many in each group, it starts with a brutally early hotel pickup for travel to the airport. No one likes it, of course, but if the goal is to connect to a … 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.”