court dance Archives : Professor Carol

Buggy Whips and iPods

February 9, 2023 by Professor Carol

On Tuesday, I posed a question to my high-schoolers in the music-history course I teach online for Memoria Academy. The question sought to stir their thoughts on the technological changes affecting music, the arts, and life itself during the fourteen years since I recorded the … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 87

January 1, 2020July 29, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Byrd, Pavan and Galliard a6 If you liked the galliard from last week’s pick, you may want to dig a little deeper into the late Renaissance court dances. The galliard was frequently paired with a pavan as in this week’s selection by the English composer … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

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.”