Music Appreciation
Learn to love music from the Baroque to the Modern from Handel to Hendrix. Let WEA take you into the world of music to understand its beauty, rhythms and soul. You will find fun, enlightenment and fulfilment in the joy of music.
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Unlucky in Love - Eight Great Operas
<p>Broken hearts have been the mainstay of opera from its inception in the sixteenth century up to today. This course looks at eight different operas and their eight different composers - Italian,
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Music and its Cultural Environment: the Renaissance, Baroque and Modern Eras
<p>Music is always composed for and performed within a specific environment. This course explores the fruitful relationship between an outstanding selection of works and their original and subsequent
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Beat The Blues - A Night in the Mississippi Delta
<p>The Blues is one of America’s great contributions to the world. It was the primary ingredient in all Jazz and Pop Music. Tonight, we will visit the area that produced the Blues. It began as a
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A Brief History of Opera
<p>Get more out of opera! Explore its development through history, where it came from and how it developed through experimentation and trial and error. From the late Renaissance revival of Ancient
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An Evening with Brahms
<p>From his beginnings as a tavern piano player to his final appearance receiving ovations after every piece, Brahms was a man of contrasts. Never marrying but loving Clara Schumann all his life,
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