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Instructor: Dr. Michael Roeder (in-person course) Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Beethoven was a child of late 18th-century Classicism in music, but he transformed the style of Haydn and Mozart into something more urgent, more striving, more powerful, and even more peaceful. These Romantic qualities emerged as he created one expressive masterpiece after the other. ...
Instructor: Rabbi David Kunin (via Zoom course)Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Jewish history and tradition has been focused primarily on men, leaving out the essential contributions of women over the ages. In this class we discover amazing Jewish women (some well known and some who have largely been lost): from Hulda the Prophetess, donna ...
Instructor: Kathleen Silverman (in-person course)Fee: Members $64 (including light breakfast) | Non-Members $84 In the 19th century, the Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting with their ‘new’ small, fleeting brushstrokes and desire to capture scenes from ordinary life. Their work was far from ordinary, and the Impressionists had influence worldwide. Critics panned their work ...
Instructor: Eileen Conway (in-person course) Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Eileen Conway, a retired Anglican clergywoman, taught English at the University of Alberta for almost twenty years, chiefly to freshmen. This task happily often involved “Persuading the Undergraduates that Pride & Prejudice—and sometimes Emma—Were Not Just Dumb Girlie Books.” Quite often, happily, she succeeded. ...
On Tuesdays 1p.m. – 3p.m. December 3 & 10, 2024 Fee: $36 Join Randall Fraser’s presentation of the retrospective of his work across all the different styles of artwork he has pursued over the years along with a description of how they are all connected and interrelated to make up a whole almost 50-year career. ...
Instructor: Professor Emerita Nora Foster Stovel, Ph.D. | Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Please Join Prof. Stovel, from the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, in viewing one of the most appealing film adaptations of each of Jane Austen’s literary genius, and finish with a vote on the success of each ...
Instructor: Prof Emeritus Michael Roeder Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95 Leopold Mozart (1719-87) took his prodigy children, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91) and Maria Anna (“Nannerl” 1751-1829), on tour to display and exploit their gifts and to expose the boy to music and musicians in important musical centres of Europe. We will join W. A. Mozart on ...
Instructor: Prof Emerita Elizabeth Smythe Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95 This course will deal with Canada-US relations from the post WWII period to the present. As Pierre Elliot Trudeau once remarked about dealing with the US. It is like: sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can ...
Instructor: Prof Emeritus Michael Roeder Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95 Leopold Mozart (1719-87) took his prodigy children, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91) and Maria Anna (“Nannerl” 1751-1829), on tour to display and exploit their gifts and to expose the boy to music and musicians in important musical centres of Europe. We will join W. A. Mozart on ...
Instructor: Professor Emerita Nora Foster Stovel, Ph.D. | Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Please Join Prof. Stovel, from the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, in viewing one of the most appealing film adaptations of each of Jane Austen’s literary genius, and finish with a vote on the success of each ...
Wednesday, October 29th at 6:00p.m. Fee: $40 (including a glass of Sangria (red or white) & hors d'oeuvre) Program L. V. Beethoven Sonata Quasi una Fantasia in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight” Adagio Sostenuto Allegretto Presto agitato F. Chopin Nocturne in B-flat minor Op.9 No.1 Nocturne in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.1 Scherzo in B minor ...
Instructor: Prof Emerita Elizabeth Smythe Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95 This course will deal with Canada-US relations from the post WWII period to the present. As Pierre Elliot Trudeau once remarked about dealing with the US. It is like: sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can ...
