Denmark Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 267

April 17, 2020 by Hank Reynolds

Kuhlau, Fantasy for Flute Solo, Op. 38 As tiresome as talk of sheltering-in-place may be, it does prompt me to return to a theme we explored more than three years ago: music for solo, unaccompanied instruments. This week’s feature was filmed, appropriately enough, in an … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 189

September 14, 2018 by Hank Reynolds

Carl Nielsen, Quintet Op. 43 Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) ranks perhaps as Denmark’s most important composer, certainly one who plays an important role in the country’s artistic identity. He is also a study in contrasts. He may be classified as a nationalistic composer, and this owes … 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.”