10/9 & 10/23 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Sarah Rosenson In each of these sessions we will discuss a different ethical issue that has strong arguments on both sides. Our issues will be drawn from a wide range of sources and will cover a wide variety of topics...
10/16 & 10/30 @ 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Barbara Anderson Now you know who you are. Come out to class and tell us about it. We will find out who the first woman was, meet Henry VIII’s favorite wife and a very endearing trunk murderess. Laughs all around. ...
10/9 @ 1:30 PM/CH Hosted by: Trish Chambers Women today enjoy many rights and privileges that their fore-bearers never knew. This program chronicles the fight for women’s right to vote along with other rights that were previously denied. An eye-opening discussion of how we have gotten...
10/23 & 10/30 @ 2:00 PM/CH Instructor: Ira Miller 10/23 we return to the series Music in the Period of Common Practice - The Classical Period, with a further examination of the Music of Franz Joseph Hadyn, focused on his Symphonies. In fact, although he did...
10/9,10/16, 10/23 &10/30 @ 3:00 PM/CH Instructor: Stuart Liss 10/9 CHARLIE CHAPLIN The latter end of cinema’s Silent Film era was a tumultuous time for many reasons, and right smack-dab in the middle of it all was Charlie Chaplin. As one of history’s greatest rags-to-riches stories, Charlie fought...
10/23 & 10/30 @ 7:30 PM/ CH Hosted by: Leila Joffe In this course, we will continue with some of the greatest ballads written for the Broadway stage. We will explore hit ballads from Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers...
10/10 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Stephen “Dr. Steve” Phillips, Ph.D. The Romans arrived in Egypt at the time of Cleopatra VII, in the first century, BCE. Not only did the Romans incorporate aspects of ancient Egyptian religion into their own pantheon of gods and goddesses, but they...
10/10 & 10/24 @ 1:00 PM/CH Join host Gerry Tremblay as he explores the backdrop to some of the world’s most famous operas fun for all opera lovers. ...
10/5, 10/12,10/19 & 10/26 @ 2:00 PM/CH Rococo Art and the Neoclassical Style – Fragonard, Watteau, Jacques Louis David and Ingres...
10/26 @ 7:30 CH Instructor: Joel Sheffield Joel Sheffield will present the next in a series of talks in which he selects a specific year and discusses music, poetry, and even some science of that period. ...