Online Learning Delve Into Online Learning With OPERA America OPERA America's Online Learning Series is back and better than ever, with a full season of four courses including Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. The course will run from October 22 to November 12, with a link to a new lecture sent each week over e-mail. What is Online Learning? Designed as a service for opera lovers and those who wish to learn more about the art form, our courses provide an in-depth understanding of masterpieces of opera literature using the unique capacity and convenience of the Internet. Each online course features content that focuses on the historical background, musical style, literary source, and the dramatic structure of an opera. Course lectures are e-mailed to participants once each week for four weeks, allowing you to review the course material at your own pace. Audio clips and production photos are also provided, aiding in the study of musical style and analysis. Online bulletin boards are used to connect course participants to the instructor and each other. About the Course The protagonists may be children, but Hansel and Gretel is not kid stuff. While the melodies are appropriately folk-like, the orchestral colors and textures are brilliantly complex, and no less than Richard Strauss called the work a masterpiece. This course will consider the place of fairy tales in culture in the 19th and 20th centuries and discuss Humperdinck's musical influences. Meet Your Instructor Larry Bomback is Lecturer of Music at Hunter College. His research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and American musical theater. His work has been published in The Musical Times, Musicological Explorations, and The Harmonizer, and he has presented papers and lectures in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. He is currently the Operations Manager of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony. Ask the Questions You Want Answered In addition the Web-based course materials, you will be able to interact with Mr. Bomback, and other course participants through our online discussion board, where new questions will be posted each week. You will have the opportunity to offer comments, and pose any burning questions you may have. Registration As a patron of Opera Company of Philadelphia, you can have access to Hansel and Gretel free of charge. To register, send an e-mail with your name, street address, and the e-mail address where you would like to receive the course information to outreach@operaphila.org. Please register by October 15, 2007 to take part in this program. 2007-2008 Season In addition to Hansel and Gretel, three other courses are available this season. To learn more, and register for these courses, visit: www.operaamerica.org/audiences/learningcenter/prompter/distance.shtml
Online Learning
Delve Into Online Learning With OPERA America
OPERA America's Online Learning Series is back and better than ever, with a full season of four courses including Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. The course will run from October 22 to November 12, with a link to a new lecture sent each week over e-mail.
What is Online Learning?
Designed as a service for opera lovers and those who wish to learn more about the art form, our courses provide an in-depth understanding of masterpieces of opera literature using the unique capacity and convenience of the Internet.
Each online course features content that focuses on the historical background, musical style, literary source, and the dramatic structure of an opera. Course lectures are e-mailed to participants once each week for four weeks, allowing you to review the course material at your own pace. Audio clips and production photos are also provided, aiding in the study of musical style and analysis. Online bulletin boards are used to connect course participants to the instructor and each other.
About the Course
The protagonists may be children, but Hansel and Gretel is not kid stuff. While the melodies are appropriately folk-like, the orchestral colors and textures are brilliantly complex, and no less than Richard Strauss called the work a masterpiece. This course will consider the place of fairy tales in culture in the 19th and 20th centuries and discuss Humperdinck's musical influences.
Meet Your Instructor
Larry Bomback is Lecturer of Music at Hunter College. His research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and American musical theater. His work has been published in The Musical Times, Musicological Explorations, and The Harmonizer, and he has presented papers and lectures in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. He is currently the Operations Manager of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony.
Ask the Questions You Want Answered
In addition the Web-based course materials, you will be able to interact with Mr. Bomback, and other course participants through our online discussion board, where new questions will be posted each week. You will have the opportunity to offer comments, and pose any burning questions you may have.
Registration
As a patron of Opera Company of Philadelphia, you can have access to Hansel and Gretel free of charge. To register, send an e-mail with your name, street address, and the e-mail address where you would like to receive the course information to outreach@operaphila.org.
Please register by October 15, 2007 to take part in this program.
2007-2008 Season
In addition to Hansel and Gretel, three other courses are available this season. To learn more, and register for these courses, visit: www.operaamerica.org/audiences/learningcenter/prompter/distance.shtml
