Category: Class Notes

This is a significantly revised and enlarged version of a course that was originally presented in the Spring 2018 Term. Having two additional weeks in the term ...

1860: Mahler is born 1875-80: Studies in Vienna 1880: Das Klagende Lied 1880: First conducting job in Bad Hall 1881-82: Conductor in Laibach 1882-83: Conductor ...

Composer Title Soloist(s) Conductor Orchestra Class One Gustav Mahler Symphony 4 (excerpt) Leonard Bernstein NY Philharmonic Arnold Schönberg Sechs kleine Klaiv...

Bibliography for Gustav Mahler: Songs and Symphonies Last First Title Date Publisher Ariès Philippe Centuries of Childhood 1965 Vintage Blaukopf Kurt Gustav Mah...

The essence of drama, whether on the stage or on the page, is conflict. One common and enduring form of interpersonal conflict arises when one party to a love a...

Norma Although the setting is exotic and distant: Roman-occupied Gaul in the first century BCE, it is really a story that recurs throughout history right up to ...

Weeks One and Two – (Sept 13 & 20, 2022) Vincenzo Bellini – Norma NY Metropolitan Opera October 7, 2018 Oroveso: Matthew Rose Pollione: Joseph Calleja Norma...

Since Romeo and Juliet was not an original story with Shakespeare, he could safely assume playgoers would already be familiar with the story and characters.&nbs...

Shakespeare’s audience would likely have been familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet in advance of attending the play. Consequently, he would have been com...

This will be an in-person class at RIT-Osher beginning April 12, 2022 until June 14. All videos of the play to be seen in class will have subtitles, so it is no...