Comments on: They Drop the Chants but Miss the Canon https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/03/they-drop-the-chants-but-miss-the-canon/ Reforming Our Universities Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jonathan https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/03/they-drop-the-chants-but-miss-the-canon/#comment-1264362 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:00:49 +0000 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/?p=31515#comment-1264362 “I knew something about the symphonies of Mahler, but not those of Beethoven.”

What a mope! For sure, you were a dope about Ludwig. And plenty of others. But you have had plenty of opportunity to remedy the deficits. Find something you really love and run with it, I say!

And I have to laugh about the poor Columbia students. Their deprivation! Countless opportunities to hear an endless stream of the greatest symphonies from all over the world at Carnegie Hall. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Endless, endless. If your foundation lacked, that is your fault.

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