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Friday Performance Pick – 53

January 8, 2022November 6, 2015 by Hank Reynolds

Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat No. 53 means that we are starting a second year of Friday Performance Picks. We have covered a lot of ground in the past year in terms of musical eras, styles, and genres. But you don’t … Read more

Revisiting Space Films

October 26, 2014 by Professor Carol

I hadn’t seen any classic space films for decades. So, upon receiving the invitation to speak at the October 2014 NASA Homeschool Day at Space Center Houston, I decided to revisit them. Re-watching 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was the most fascinating, followed by Close … 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.”