ALWAYS ON
Sunday Brunch
As far as nearly possible from the urban tragedy of St. Louis, led by the same cabal of ideological purists that have wrecked nearly every large city in the US-- yet still remains in the American Heartland State of Missouri--a quiet, beautiful setting where families gather at the University Keeter Center every Sunday morning.
Aaron Copland “Our Town”
Copland wrote the score to the film version of Thornton Wilder's play in 1940. Comparable to Copland’s other orchestral suite, Appalachian Spring, Our Town is smaller in scale, but holds the same traditional Copland characteristics: the sunrise wake up call in the beginning, the call and response, exploiting the reflective quality of the woodwinds, brass chorales, and the desperately aching sounds of the strings. Performance led graduate conductor Su Jin Susanna Cervantes
Carillons
The carillon arose in the towns of the Hanseatic Low Countries and crossed the Atlantic with European immigrants and gained particular prominence in the United States. On campuses, their bells mark time, commemorate occasions and provide public music across the academic commons.
“The True, the Good and the Beautiful”
"...Beauty is not private taste or decoration; it is the form in which truth and goodness become visible and livable. In art, nature, faces, and ordinary settlement, beauty discloses meaning, fittingness, and the sacred. When beauty is abandoned for shock, kitsch, or mere utility, truth and goodness lose their public presence. Real art therefore unites the three: it shows the good by telling the truth beautifully..." - Sir Roger Scruton.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC.
Bulletin Board
Curated list of open consultations and calls for information from state, federal and global agencies.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
