How To Enjoy Opera

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Here’s the latest episode in my campaign to help open doors to arguably the grandest form of musical expression in our Western canon. Yes, it’s a podcast about how to enjoy opera, done for Shane Saxon’s excellent series Et Cetera. Shane is a leader not just in … Read more

Brawling Over Art

It’s an eye-catching title, yes? To be fair, we didn’t really brawl. It’s hard to brawl when everyone mostly agrees. Instead, we grappled on this panel with the question of how to cultivate the Fine Arts as an indispensable element of a child’s education. Maybe … Read more

An Interview with Michael Dodds (Part 2)

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Our interview with Dr. Michael Dodds continues. (Listen to Part 1 here.) We have a wide-ranging discussion of Michael’s work as a composer and conductor, the history of maps, composer David Maslanka, and more on C.S. Lewis. http://traffic.libsyn.com/professorcarol/dodds-final-pt2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

On San Marco Square

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Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice played an important role in music of the late Renaissance. Here Alessandro and Giovanni Gabrieli took advantage of the architecture by placing separate choirs of instrumentalists across from each other and thus pioneered a new antiphonal sound. Listen to my … Read more