Dukas Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 100

October 28, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice We are in Germany, Halloween is upon us, and Goethe’s house sits 100 yards away. So what makes more sense for this week’s pick than The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a poem by Goethe set to music by Paul Dukas? Goethe’s poem, Der Zauberlehrling, … Read more

The Music of Magic

March 30, 2013September 27, 2007 by Reynolds

What’s this program about? Can musical works actually paint magic into sound? Or are the sounds magical only because we know the stories behind them? Professor Carol looks at magic in music, from E.T.A. Hoffmann to John Williams’ Harry Potter score. Works discussed: Berlioz’s … Read more

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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.”