Pierre de la Rue Archives : Professor Carol

Friday Performance Pick – 102

November 11, 2016 by Hank Reynolds

Pierre de la Rue: Plorer, gemir, crier Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452-1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer remembered primarily for his sacred music. Plorer, gemir, crier is a lamentation that takes part of its text from the Requiem Mass and combines it with a French text. … 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.”