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We'll roll the score so very high,
That
you will hear them sigh:
Well-a
Boola, Boo, Boola, Boola, Boo,
Boola,
Boo, Boola, Boola, Boola, Boo!
After
graduating from Yale (Summa Bin Lauday) in Political
Philosophy on Wednesday, I happenstanced into Professor Craig
Wright's course "MUSI 112: Listening
to Music."
....you will become the purveyors of
classical music thereafter. You, the intelligentsia of the next
generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western
culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture.-Professor
Craig Wright
Just finished my fourth class. I know for
sure that if I was actually sitting in that classroom, I'd
flunk. Badly. And, given what I perceive to be Prof. Wright's low
tolerance for slackers and low lifers, I would probably be caned as
well. So what a joy not having to worry about the minutia;
learning what this stuff (♩,♪,
and ♬) does, and just
letting
things seep in as they will.
Don't get me wrong, I can read music.
Guitar
music, and now I'm reading
harmonica .
Your experience may differ of course, but I'm happy being exposed to
all this stuff, with the other Yale intelligentsia. By the
by, that instruction about Yale students being the new intelligentsia has been uttered
in more than a few of the Yale lectures I've sat in on. I mention
it only in passing, meaning I don't find it at all "elitist" in the
elitist way to remind these kids that they're special, because they
are. Their parents can afford to pay $58,600/ year to send them
there, and are likely themselves to have a similar educational
background, so yeah. Elite.
I'm learning the Yale fight song. Maryland teams blow
chunks.
So does Harvard. Boola Boola.
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