Courses Spring 2024

I am excited to offer the following courses in the Spring 2024 semester

Monday, February 5, 7:00-8:15 PM, “Harmonizing History: Celebrating the Legacy of Three Black Composers, Livingston Public Library, 10 Robert H Harp Dr., Livingston, New Jersey 973-992-4600 https://livingston.librarycalendar.com/event/harmonizing-history-celebrating-legacy-three-black-composers-13045

Mondays (5), February 26-March 25, 1:00-2:30 PM, Monday Afternoon at the Opera: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Pietro Mascagni’s Cavaleria rusticana, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, Kemmerer Library, Harding Township, 19 Blue Mill Road, New Vernon (Trail Room-downstairs), New Jersey https://www.ssreg.com/chatham/classes/description.asp?id=136678

Mondays (6), April 8-May 13, 9:30-10:30 AM, Leisure Learning, George Frideric Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Water Music, Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Opus 6 #8 The Christmas Concerto, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Frederick the Great and Jean Jaques Rosseau Music of the Enlightenment, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #6, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Bernards Township Public Library, 32 South Maple Avenue, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 908-204-3031, https://www.bernardslibrary.org/eventcalendar#/events/jIOHdkPehT/instances/AEuF3vYBo1/

Fridays (4), April 5-April 26, 10:30-11:30 AM, 100 Years of Broadway Musicals, Washington Valley Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Road, Long Valley, New Jersey, 908-876-3596, https://wtpl.libcal.com/event/11353138

Fridays (5), April 12-May 10, 7:30-9:00 PM, Friday Night at the Opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, Pietro Mascagni’s Cavaleria rusticana, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, Bernards Township Public Library, 32 South Maple Avenue, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 908-204-3031, Bernards Townshi Public Library

Tuesdays (4), April 16-May 7, 1:00-2:30 PM, Giacomo Puccini 100th Anniversary, Kemmerer Library, Harding Township, 19 Blue Mill Road, New Vernon (Trail Room-downstairs), New Jersey https://www.ssreg.com/chatham/classes/description.asp?id=136679 

Fridays (4), May 3-May24, 2:00-3:30 PM ,Celebrating Composers: 200th Anniversary of Beethoven's Symphony #9, 100th Anniversary Remembering Giacomo Puccini, 100th Anniversary of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Leonard Bernstein in the year of the film Maestro, Parsippany Public Library, 449 Halsey Road, Parsippany, New Jersey, 973-887-150,  https://parsippanylibrary.org/    

Tuesday, May 30, 1:00-2:00 PM, Music of the 1970s  Part 1: 1970-1975, Montville Public Library, 90 Horseneck Road, Montville, New Jersey, https://www.montvillelibrary.org/, 973-402-0900

Mondays (5), June 3-July 1, 1:30-3:00 PM, The Romantic Era: 1820-1865, Music of Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rossini, Verdi, Paganini, Schumann, Madison Public Library, 39 Keep Street, Madison, New Jersey, https://www.madisonnjlibrary.org/, 973-377-0722