News Release
|
|
|
News Release |
Thirty Years of Joy: The Hollywood Musical (MUS E73-61, Touch-Tone 04748) joins the mix of diverse music courses offered this fall by Emeritus, Oakton Community College's continuing education program for older adults.Taught by Dottie Benjamin, Thirty Years of Joy takes an in-depth look at the Hollywood musical and some of its major talents. Benjamin, who has a graduate degree in radio/TV/film, explores the development of the musical from the advent of sound in the late 1920s to its demise in the late 1950s. The five-week class meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 4, at the Ray Hartstein Campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie. The course fee is $60.
Other Emeritus music courses beginning soon include Opera Without Tears, a preview of the operas from the 2002 - 2003 Lyric Opera season with Patrick Casali, retired professor of humanities and international studies at Oakton; Music of the Bach Family, a study of the lives of Johann Sebastian Bach and his four sons taught by music researcher Jim Kendros; and The Great American Songbook II, a look at American popular music from the early 1900s to the end of the 1960s with former WFMT host Bill Sheldon.
Students age 60 and above who reside within Oakton's district pay half-tuition for Emeritus noncredit classes. For more information, call (847) 635-1414 or (847) 982-9888, press 3. A complete list of Emeritus classes, seminars, and events can be viewed online at www.oakton.edu/emeritus.
With
Online Courses, Learning is Only a "Mouse Click" Away Melissa
Thodos & Dancers Grace Oakton Stage on September 21 Oakton's
Kids' Club Season Opens With a "WOW!" Otto
Neumann Exhibition Explores Human Form Learn
About the "Biology of Aging" at Oakton Direct questions
about this page to the Web Communications
Specialist.
BACK
TO NEWS RELEASES MAIN PAGE
Direct technical questions
about Oakton's Web site to the Webmaster.
Copyright © 2001
Oakton Community College. Last update 8/23/2002.
This is an official Oakton Community College page.
