Louis XIV Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 54

November 13, 2015 by Hank Reynolds

Lully, Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs The Italian-born Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) became one of the most prominent composers of the French Baroque era and court composer for French King Louis XIV. Also employed at the time by Louis XIV was the playwright Molière with whom Lully … Read more

A Story of Music and History

September 21, 2020February 25, 2010 by Professor Carol

We’ve been talking lately a lot about stories here in the Professor Carol office. Living in a small Cowboy town provides me a with wealth of stories, the same kind of stories I grew up with in the Virginia mountains. Here, however, the topics involve … 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.”