Mahler Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 103

November 18, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Mahler, Symphony No. 1 We are being rather ambitious today, featuring a Mahler symphony. But the Mistral Chamber Orchestra is more ambitious by performing the Mahler Symphony No. 1 with a small ensemble and no conductor. It’s not what you would normally expect with a … Read more

The Musicians’ Perspective on Mahler

November 11, 2022August 16, 2007 by Reynolds

Mahler expanded the orchestra to huge proportions, going beyond the already inflated forces of Wagner. But Mahler simultaneously achieved a striking delicacy and transparency by using solo instruments to create “chamber music” in the midst of his massive musical canvases. He drew his inspiration from … Read more

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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.”