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Friday Performance Pick – 411

March 31, 2023 by Hank Reynolds

Giuseppe Sammartini, Concerto for Recorder and Strings Giuseppe Sammartini (1695 – 1750) could easily be confused with his younger brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 1775). The “Sammartini Brothers” were listed as oboists in Milan in 1720, which is probably a reference to Giuseppe … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 408

March 10, 2023 by Hank Reynolds

Galuppi, Sonata in B-Flat Simpler melodies, lighter texture, moving easily from the expression of one emotion to another: these characteristics strongly contrasted with the aesthetics of the late Baroque, the contrapuntal complexity of J. S. Bach, Handel, and Telemann. The new style was called galant or, in … 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.”