lute song Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 340

October 15, 2021 by Hank Reynolds

Dowland, Flow My Tears Flow My Tears has a prominent place in our Discovering Music course. Despite the often sad, even morose, themes of Dowland’s songs, they have an immediate appeal. Maybe it’s the melancholy that attracts young listeners who tend to believe that their … Read more

Friday Performance Pick – 181

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 by Hank Reynolds

Dowland, Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part “Semper Dowland, semper dolens” (always Dowland, always doleful). The motto comes from Dowland himself. Melancholia is what made John Dowland (1563-1626) famous. Songs like “Flow My Tears” and “I Saw My Lady Weep” seem to sum up … 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.”