galliard Archives : Professor Carol

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

Friday Performance Pick – 86

January 8, 2022July 22, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Trabaci, Gagliarda Seconda detta la Scabrosetta Maybe you played the recorder at some point in your life or watched your kids learn to play one while studying the rudiments of music. Its popularity possibly owes something to the fact that it can be made rather cheaply. … 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.”