Podcasts Education HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive Why Sing: Pat Love on Brotherhood and Song

Why Sing: Pat Love on Brotherhood and Song

Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 7:57 p.m.

From the boys\u2019 choir in the lower school to the men\u2019s chorus in the upper school, informal performances at faculty dinners to songs at the annual Maryland Day Gala, singing echoes throughout the whole of The Heights experience. This week, we sit down with Mr. Patrick Love, music teacher at The Heights since 2004, to discuss not only when and where we sing at The Heights but\xa0why\xa0we love to sing so much.

As you\u2019ll hear, singing\u2014broadly understood\u2014is at the heart of our school's mission.\xa0Cantare amantis est, St. Augustine tells us: singing belongs to the one who loves. And as Arthur Clutton-Brock wrote, \u201ceducation ought to teach us how to be in love always and what to be in love with.\u201d In educating our boys to become men fully alive, then, we are ultimately helping them to love, to find their voice, and to fall in love with One who sings them into existence.

Chapters
  • 3:40\xa0Where does singing happen at The Heights?
    • 4:30\xa0A musical history of The Heights
  • 8:00\xa0Where does singing happen amongst the faculty?
  • 12:27\xa0What motivates us to sing? Why do we sing?
    • 13:45\xa0Only the lover sings
    • 15:30\xa0From\xa0The Magician\u2019s Nephew
    • 18:40\xa0Singing: the real deal
  • 21:00\xa0Love, education, and singing at the crossroads
  • 22:23\xa0Fr. Luigi Giussani and the CL Songbook
    • 23:30\xa0Singing in the home
    • 25:28\xa0John Senior
    • 29:45\xa0Cal Newport on technology fasts
  • 31:10\xa0On iTunes
  • 32:46\xa0Singing in the homeroom: teaching as singing
  • 39:00\xa0Singing and silence
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