About our Guest
For more than 20 years, Carol was Associate Professor of Music History at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Professor Carol Reynolds is a uniquely talented and much sought-after public speaker for arts venues and general audiences. She combines her insights on music history, arts, and culture with her passion for arts education to create programs and curricula, inspire concert audiences, and lead arts tours. Never dull or superficial, Carol brings to her audiences a unique mix of humor, substance, and skilled piano performance to make the arts more accessible and meaningful to all.
Carol has has teamed with Smithsonian Journeys for cruises to the Holy Land, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Baltic Sea, Indian Ocean, and across the Atlantic.
She now makes her home in North Carolina and maintains a second residence in Weimar, Germany — the home of Goethe, Schiller, Bach, and Liszt, and the focal point of much of Europe’s artistic heritage.
Show Notes
Dynamic resources will be found in this podcast. As you listen, you’ll hear about promising and natural ways to blend music into the lives of those you teach and with whom you surround yourself. The mind shift is that it is not about fitting it in, it’s about shaping affections with beauty. There are shared musical treasures that bring people together. What if your students discovered such delight, as when one little girl exclaimed, “Mommy look! All the songs are here in one place!”?
Some questions in this episode include:
- What should we be thinking about in Music Education?
- When we want to embrace Musical Education, can we first describe what the problem is?
- What does a robust music program look like in a Classical Education?
This talk will bring your own musical stories to mind, and inspire you to preserve the beauty of the rich and timeless songs.
Books, Music, and Media Mentioned In This Episode
Resources by Carol:
The Circle of Scholars: by Professor Carol at professorcarol.com
Hymn Workshops and Webinars:by Professor Carol at professorcarol.com
Essay: "A Child’s Journey Into Sacred Music" by Carol Reynolds at Memoria Press: Memoriapress.com
Coming soon: Into the Spiritual by Carol Reynolds, a Hymn Workshop Webinar
List of Professor Carol’s Resources
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Father Bethel biography about John Senior
Shiniche Suzuki writings
In the Mood Frank Sinatra
Big Band Music
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Peter Pan Records
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
The Point by Harry Nilsson
Old Recordings with great orchestras and singers like Bing Crosby, Boris Karloff, Burl Ives
German Kinder songs
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Hymnals and Devotional songs
Noise Pollution Carol Reynolds Weekly Digest email blog
Plato
The Little Drummer Boy’s Bolero by Julie Giroux
Messiah by George Frederic Handel
American Folk Music and Christmas Songs
Folk Music from Ambleside Online Curriculum: Design Your Homeschool: amblesideonline.org
Hymns from Ambleside Online Curriculum: Design Your Homeschool: amblesideonline.org
Hillbilly music with Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Tubb
The Met Opera
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Old Rugged Cross by George Bennard
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
American Marches by John Philip Sousa
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
Essays by C.S. Lewis
The Singing Revolution Documentary film history of Baltic Song Festival
My Musical Life by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
A Thousand Points for Children (1958) Find a similar collection of prose and poetry
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Sound Engineer: Andrew Helsel
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Music: Used with permission. cellists: Sara Sant' Ambrogio and Lexine Feng; pianist: Alyona Waldo
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