The Classics

The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase.

Mandy Hallenius co-founded the DaVinci Initiative to help children gain realistic drawing and painting skills as well as open for them many avenues of cognitive development.

For Kern, the classics, especially literature, tap into this deep impulse to learn, to appreciate, and, at bottom, to aspire to what is greater than we are.

Ballerina Ashley Tuttle sees classical ballet, like all the classic arts, as trying to get at truthful expression.

Actress Tracy Arnold describes how classic stories and the age-old medium of theater ease our loneliness.