What are arts to the "liberarl arts"?
Jon Fisher
Issue date: 9/6/07 Section: Arts
He said the college meets students at their individual levels, whether that be beginning or advanced.
"It's a balancing act that we work with all the time," Holleman said.
VanDerSwaagh added that learning an instrument is a wonderful experience no matter how advanced one becomes.
"It really does fill me with more respect for all levels of maturity," she said. "All of these different levels have significance and they're all striving."
Those who do not perform can develop themselves by patronizing the arts, Whalen said. In some sense, it is best to be an amateur of the arts in the fullest sense of the word: one who loves, Whalen said.
Whether performing or observing, the arts deepen a sense of what it means to be human through vivid sensory communication, Knecht said.
"Can we imagine life without photographs, paintings, and drawings of nature -- God's gift of the world?" Knecht said. "Would we not be diminished by their absence? Are we not ennobled by their study?"
"It's a balancing act that we work with all the time," Holleman said.
VanDerSwaagh added that learning an instrument is a wonderful experience no matter how advanced one becomes.
"It really does fill me with more respect for all levels of maturity," she said. "All of these different levels have significance and they're all striving."
Those who do not perform can develop themselves by patronizing the arts, Whalen said. In some sense, it is best to be an amateur of the arts in the fullest sense of the word: one who loves, Whalen said.
Whether performing or observing, the arts deepen a sense of what it means to be human through vivid sensory communication, Knecht said.
"Can we imagine life without photographs, paintings, and drawings of nature -- God's gift of the world?" Knecht said. "Would we not be diminished by their absence? Are we not ennobled by their study?"
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