What Really Is Classical About Classical Music?
Schedule
Tue, 16 Apr, 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Beow's Books & Brews | Raleigh, NC
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Join us Tuesday, April 16 (7pm) at Beow's Books & Brews as we hear from Dr. Carol Reynolds and engage in some great conversations!WHAT REALLY IS CLASSICAL ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC? We use the term “Classical” to describe a specific body of historic music, defined by certain factors including venue where performed, instruments used, and musical forms employed. Yet what makes any of this, or all of this, “classical”? Does this word “classical” correspond or harmonize with our understanding of Classical Education? For that matter, is only this body of music “classic”? Using a workshop approach, let’s take on this topic and see what answers we can find.
DR. CAROL REYNOLDS is a musicologist, pianist, and author specializing in Russian, East European, and German cultural history. She also works as a Smithsonian Journeys Expert, leading groups through Russia, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, and Switzerland.
After 21 years as a professor of music history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Carol, with her husband and co-author Hank, bought a ranch in North Central Texas and began raising goats. At the same time, she became fascinated by the renewal of Classical Education. With Hank, she started designing curricula for secondary students that taught history through the lens of the Fine Arts. Her signature course “Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture” is used widely in the US and abroad. Other popular courses include “America’s Artistic Legacy,” “Early Sacred Music,” and “Imperial Russia—a Cultural Odyssey”(www.professorcarol.com). Carol lectures widely for arts organizations and works closely with Institute for Classical Education, Memoria Press, Classical Academic Press, CiRCE Institute, and Homeschool Connections. She is also a professor at Memoria College and a regular member of the panel “Classical Education Unhinged” along with Martin Cothran, Andrew Kern, Christopher Perrin, and Andrew Pudewa.
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Beow's Books & Brews, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, 8111 Creedmoor Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613, United States,Raleigh, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: