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Friday Performance Pick – 219

April 12, 2019 by Hank Reynolds

Rodríguez, Crucifixus Sergio Rodríguez was born in Tenerife in 1982 and studied at the Professional Conservatory of Music in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. While his compositions include works in numerous genres, he clearly has some focus on sacred choral music. His setting of Crucifixus was composed in … 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.”