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April 6, 2023 by Professor Carol

Two great “hushes” fall in the Christian liturgical calendar. The first, Christmas Eve, is marked by well-known music, including the iconic Silent Night. But the music expressing the hush of Holy Week will not jingle from loudspeakers in stores during Lent. Instead, the music that … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 62

February 5, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Rachmaninov, Blessed Is the Man (Блажен муж) In our Early Sacred Music course we devote a complete unit to the music of Eastern Orthodoxy with particular emphasis on the Russian Orthodox Church. Orthodox chant developed on a different path than Gregorian Chant in the West and remained … 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.”