Lullaby Archives : Professor Carol

Nativity Cradle Songs

December 23, 2021 by Professor Carol

Would you be surprised that the Cradle Song is a serious genre within the Western classical tradition? Of course, people everywhere sing to babies and need no musical training to do so! They generally pass on the same folk-based tunes their parents sang to them. … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 28

October 1, 2018May 15, 2015 by Professor Carol

Corigliano: Lullaby for Natalie To understand why I am writing about this Lullaby, I have to give you a little background. My first experience hearing music by John Corigliano in concert nearly knocked me to the floor. It was his Symphony No. 3, known as Circus … 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.”