Graduate school field trips are rare. Gone are the yellow school buses of our youth that once promised a venture to the zoo or the pumpkin patch, releasing us from the confinement of a classroom. And yet, back in graduate school I had one professor who knew better, taking her opera history class of twenty-somethings [...]
Month: November 2017
In www.artsatl.com…Spivey Hall kicks off season in perfect harmony with vocal group Chanticleer
Oct 10, 2017 Within his notorious Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gave us “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in which the rooster Chanticleer learns the hard way that one should never trust a flatterer. On Sunday afternoon, Spivey Hall opened its 2017–18 season with a performance by the men’s classical vocal ensemble that borrowed its name from Chaucer’s story. [...]