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Friday Performance Pick – 492

October 25, 2024 by Hank Reynolds

Saint-Saëns, Morceau de concert “Morceau de concert” simply denotes a concert piece. The French morceau can refer to portion of something, like a bit of food, or morsel. Camille Saint-Saëns (dates) composed this piece, originally called a Fantasie, in 1891 for the horn player Henri … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 53

January 8, 2022November 6, 2015 by Hank Reynolds

Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat No. 53 means that we are starting a second year of Friday Performance Picks. We have covered a lot of ground in the past year in terms of musical eras, styles, and genres. But you don’t … 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.”