Co-Op and School Packages

by admin on September 1, 2010

This summer we unveiled our new plans for Co-ops and Schools, or any larger groups wanting to undertake Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture.  Some packages include individual texts and CD sets for each participant, others have the consumables (fill-ins) available as .pdf files, while still others include multiple copies of the DVDs and reference CDs for school and church libraries.

Let us know what your needs are, and we’ll find a way to help you meet them.

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FAQs

by Professor Carol on August 15, 2010

I used to wonder how people came up with FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).  Now I know!  They really are frequently asked questions, especially at conferences!

So, it’s with pleasure that we launch an FAQ section on our Professor Carol website. We hope this new content will be helpful to all of our Discovering Music families.  Your comments, as always, are most welcome.

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A No-Frills Approach

July 5, 2010

Which part of Conference Season 2010 is more fun: experiencing the new conventions or returning to the ones we first visited in 2009?  The answer is “both.”
It’s rewarding to look up and see the families we first met in 2009 who ordered Discovering Music during the pre-publication phase.  That made you co-pioneers with us!
It’s equally [...]

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Meet Thomas Hampson

June 3, 2010

Thomas Hampson.  His name keeps coming up, or, better said, I keep bringing it up.  Sometimes it’s at a workshop called “The Roots of American Music” that I like to give at conferences.  Or maybe I’m simply talking with students who, finishing Unit 16 of Discovering Music, are surprised to learn how seriously our American [...]

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The Convention Whirl

May 10, 2010

A few years ago, buried in term papers in my 2nd-floor office at the Meadows School of the Arts, I couldn’t have imagined spending Spring traveling cross-country for “convention season.”  And yet, here I am, doing just that. 
Without question, the greatest delight is the opportunity to meet with students and parents, both those already taking [...]

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California Bound

April 27, 2010

Wednesday, pre-dawn, we’ll be heading out for the Bay Area Homeschooling Conference – CHEA.  It starts Friday evening at the Santa Clara Convention Center. We’re in booth 405, so do come by and visit.  Also, please join me for two talks on Saturday, May 1st: 

Academic Success, Western Culture, and the Arts 12:10-12:50 p.m.
College Prep Through [...]

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On the Road Again

April 17, 2010

Goodness, it’s been an exciting time.  With the end of the concert season and the beginning of the conference season, it’s hard to know which way is up.
First, let me greet all of you who are new to the Circle of Scholars, especially the wonderful folks I met at the Catholic Homeschooling Conference in St. Louis [...]

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Off and Running

March 24, 2010

Tomorrow it starts in earnest—the 2010 Conference season!  We’re off to St. Louis for SLHC, followed two weeks later by the mammoth Midwest Conference in Cincinnati, and then the Bay Area conference in California.  And that’s just March and April.
Educational conferences have the greatest energy—so many kids and parents, interesting vendors, a lot of good [...]

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Sammy Nestico, I Love You

March 15, 2010

Even if I wanted to, I can’t pick up the phone and call Brahms.  Or Bach, or Palestrina.  So imagine how excited I was to grab the phone and call Sammy Nestico!
Mr. Nestico, now 86, is one of the music world’s most congenial figures.  When I reached him, he was about to fly to Germany [...]

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A Story of Music and History

February 25, 2010

We’ve been talking lately a lot about stories here in the Professor Carol office.  Living in a small Cowboy town provides me a with wealth of stories, the same kind of stories I grew up with in the Virginia mountains.  Here, however, the topics involve cattle and hay production, rather than coal mining and mountain [...]

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