webinars Archives : Professor Carol

Getting to Know Handel’s Messiah

November 13, 2022November 10, 2022 by Professor Carol

If The Messiah and The Nutcracker went head-to-head, which one would be accorded the title of most famous masterwork? That’s a hard choice. Indeed, we are about to enter the season when both dominate performance venues across the globe. They are radically different works in … Read more

The Missing Piece: Beethoven

January 28, 2014 by Reynolds

Join us on January 29 for a fun Google Hangout as we talk about Ludwig van Beethoven and search for The Missing Piece – three of them, actually! The Romantic Artist. Where did this idea come from? You know, the wild hair, off-beat personality, someone … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

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.”