The biggest homeschool conference of the year begins on Thursday in Cincinnati. I will be speaking on music and the arts and will join my colleagues for another Classical Panel Unhinged. https://t.co/rKTMW9cpBW
This obviously speaks to me as a music historian. We can preserve (if we will) our literature and architecture in tangible form, but music is ephemeral and requires re-creation. Early Music ensembles keep us grounded in the history and aesthetics of a time and place.
Ofc bringing this expertise together requires reliable networks, taste, practical knowledge of the repertoire, talents & stage. @ContinuoFndn plays a key role here, granting British ppl the opportunity to experience the passion & creativity of early music.
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Starts tonight at 7:00! This seminar will examine the fascinating literary, musical, and cultural roots of opera and the "Broadway Musical." https://t.co/mPl9AZM9xi
An interesting survey of the history of Halloween and its hollowing out. “Today, Western civilization is dying because we no longer ‘play’ at culture; lacking the generative powers of play, cultural forms and institutions are capable only of decadent repetition.” https://t.co/qt3FAhydr1
What an absolutely wild week, what a rush of emotions. I’m not an academic, I didn’t do well in school. I had no interest in the life of the mind until my conversion to Christ from C.S. Lewis, and from that I started reading voraciously on my own. As a regular common sense kind of guy it became so obvious to me that the SAT and the College Board was the main source of the crisis in education. I always wondered why a real academic didn’t see it and start an alternative decades ago. If you change the ultimate exam, you inherently change education. But I identify as Frodo in the CLT story, totally average, with the ability to bring very little to the table other than trying to maximize the involvement of truly exceptional people. Miraculously and providentially they came, I couldn’t even get a job at CLT if I didn’t start it. We have a young and energetic team, many of whom were homeschooled and went to college at places like Hillsdale. It’s already so much bigger than I ever could’ve imagined and I have no doubt MMXL will happen.
PS: if you’re wondering what’s up with the 1920s attire, we weren’t just celebrating CLT‘s 10th anniversary, we were throwing a retirement party for the College Board. They have had a good run over the past 100 years. We will take it from here.
Stift Kloster Neuburg outside of Vienna. Cloister garden is laid out in medieval pattern as the herbs for medication and cooking would’ve been grown. Also a beautiful dwarf delphinium in the courtyard leaving the monastery. This is the monastery with the famous Verdun Altar.
Music unfolds in time. It requires patience. And critically, it requires memory because all musical events, once sounded, disappear into the ether. Repetition is the key. https://t.co/GDrNwiKi4H
An energetic teacher & respected scholar, Professor Carol has been helping homeschool families grasp and integrate the arts since 2009. In her lively sessions, she will show you exciting ways to make the arts your own!
Get to know Professor Carol at https://t.co/RSxpMpJ7zh
I am now working with a touring agency located in Sydney, Australia. They specialize in tours with intense cultural, historical, and scientific content. As you might guess, I’m excited! https://t.co/RtkFzVVoI5