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COURSE SCHEDULES FOR 2008-2009
SEPTEMBER 11th - OCTOBER 16th, 2008
THE GREATEST CHORAL MUSIC
Six Hundred Years
Gordon Greene
10AM to 12 NOON Thursdays at
Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound
This series of lectures will address many of the greatest Works of the choral repertoire from Machaut in 1350 to Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten. The importance of choral music in the services of the Church as well as in secular courts, operas and symphonies will be presented.
The techniques of composition by various composers will be observed as well. Controversy raged at times-Papal edicts concerning instruments in the Cathedral and the Reformation dictates of Luther, Calvin Henry VHL.
In order to provide sufficient variety of repertoire at each session, works from the 15th century may be presented along with 19th century opera choruses for example. However, a time-line of historical development will be sustained. The outline provided here is a general guide to the six lectures.
| September 11th |
Carl Orff: Carolina Burana 1936; Machaut's four part Mass c. 1350. Benjamin Britten's d1orus of vil.l.agers in the opera Peter Grimes; Dufay'S L'Homme Anne Mass c. 1440.
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| September 18th |
Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess 1935. The Netherlands choir Schools of the
15th century. Josqutn des Pres Pange lingua Mass 1510. Gabriel; and Monteverdi at St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice c. 1610.
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| September 25th |
Anglican choral tradition from 1545. Handel's anthems, oratorios, Coronation
music. Bach's cantatas, motets, Passions. Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.
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| October 2nd |
Bach's B minor Mass. Mozart's settings of the Mass, the final Requiem. Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" Schubert.
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| October 9th |
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (the Choral. Mendelssohn's oratorios-- Elijah. Brahms' secular choruses, German Requiem. Verdi's Requiem.
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| October 16th |
Mahler's 8th Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand). "The Wedding" Vaughn Williams' Serenade to Music. Britten's Ceremony of Carols and War Requiem. Summer is acumen in (12th century round).
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6 lectures, $40.00
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OCTOBER 23th - NOVEMBER 27th, 2008
IMPRESSIONISM: The BIG Picture
Judy Thomson
10AM to 12 NOON Thursdays at
Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound
Time and again, Manet, Monet, Degas and their associates submitted works to the French Acadamie, only to have them rejected and stamped with a large red R on the painting's frame. No one wanted their "impressions" of contemporary nineteenth century life. Who could understand their habit of painting outdoors? Learn how they overcame ridicule, humiliation and poverty, finally emerging as exponents of Impressionism, a ground breaking style which swept aside established traditions of painting. From France to the rest of Europe, to America and Canada, this new painting style attracted practitioners and admirers alike. Follow this fascinating story in 6 parts.
| October 23rd |
PARIS 1860 -- ART CENTRE OF THE WORLD
The long - established Acadamie des Beaux Arts rules French art. Learn about this strangle hold, and about the first attempts to break it. Artists rejected by the Acadamie are allowed to hold an alternative exhibition. Is this a good or bad idea? Manet, Whistler, Pissarro exhibit here.
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| October 30th |
THE STRUGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE
With the help of Nadar and others, Independent salons offer alternatives to the Acadamie. But recognition doesn't come easily! Discussions of theories of colour and painting techniques occupy the cafe scene. Degas, Pissarro, Manet, Cezanne, Monet participate.
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| November 6th |
WHAT MAKES A PAINTING "IMPRESSIONIST" ?
Snow and Ice: Principal Ingredients of the High Arctic All you ever wanted to know about frozen water.
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| November 13th |
WHAT COMES NEXT? HAS THE AVANT GARDE ARRIVED?
A look at the development of Impressionism, both in France and in the rest of Europe)and the relationship between Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Cubism. We're in the modern world.
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| November 20th |
AMERICANS IN PARIS
Students converge on Paris. Exhibitions come to American cities. Collectors and patrons give support. A look at the works of American Impressionists, both known and unknown: Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast.
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| November 27th |
THE IMPRESSIONIST STYLE IN CANADA
Not to be outdone, Canadian artists embrace the impressionist style. Helen McNicoli and Laura Muntz join Mary Cassatt in painting the domestic scene. William Brymner, Clarence Gagnon and J. W. Maurice explore the style. And Group of Seven painters Thomson, Jackson, Harris, Lismer and MacDonald experiment withimpressionist principles.
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6 lectures, $40.00
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JANUARY 8th - FEBRUARY 12th, 2009
LAW AND ORDER
10AM to 12 NOON Thursdays at
Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound
| January 8th |
Ken Rae - The Law of Crimes
The progress of Criminal Law from what we consider terribly primitive to fairly civilized;The sometimes strange ideas of proof and punishment; The evolution of these in Canada up to 1982; The profound effect of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and some of it's more surprising consequences; Public attitudes and reactions.
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| January 15th |
Douglas Grace - Why Paying Estate Taxes can be Fun !!
Mr. Grace will discuss a variety of estate planning strategies including an overview of trusts and joint ownership. He will also review some of the dangers, including loss of control and the cumulative effect of legal and accounting fees.
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| January 22nd |
Brian D. Barrie - Civil Litigation Issues.
A brief understanding with respect to current motor vehicle accident law and how it may affect you both in terms of rights and obligations under your own contract of insurance and your right to make recovery from a party at-fault (now limited by a series of Acts of the Provincial Legislature).
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| January 29th |
Stephen LaCroix
The rule of law in the world from Aristotle to the present. Religious law, Rabbinical law, Sharia and Christian, in Democracus and Theocracies. The relationship between religious law and civil (or common) law. Pluralism and the limits of law.
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| February 5th & 12th |
Pamela Newall - Whodunit ?- How Real is CSI ?
Viewers watching forensic science reality programs such as CSI and Law and Order find themselves horrified, yet at the same time fascinated, both by the violent crimes depicted and by the seemingly brilliant means of solving these crimes. Even though these programs make great TV, the facts are sometimes twisted, the techniques portrayed are often closer science fiction than to science, and the conclusions are wildly overstated or simply impossible. In her two lectures, Pam Newall will describe what really happens behind the scenes in the laboratory and in the courtroom when a DNA scientist brings real science and scholarship to the solution of a crime- a process that has revolutionized the justice system.
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6 lectures, $40.00
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FEBRUARY 26th - APRIL 2nd, 2009
A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF ENGLISH CANADIAN WRITING -
How We Got There
10AM to 12 NOON Thursdays at
Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound
This course will offer an overview of Canadian lite~T history, from its documentary beginnings in the work of explorers and pioneers to the current reality of internationally acclaimed authors in poetry and prose. Along the way it will look at the development of a more "literary" voice, the emergence of such now-classics as Anne ojGmn Gable.r and Sunshine Sketches of a Uttle Town, and the growing confidence evident in such voices as Laurence, Atwood, and Davies. In the opening and closing lectures it will present some of the most notable of our contemporary writers, ranging from the well-established (Munro, Ondaatje) to some among the younge1' generation (Annabel Lyon. Michael Crummey).
| February 26th |
Where We Are Now, Part 1
A look at a handful of the most significant Canadian writers of the late twentieth century: Loma Crozier, Don McKay, Alistair MacLeod~ Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Rudy Wiebe.
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| March 5th |
Beginnings, Part 1: The Documentary Tradition
An overview of some representative writers-including explorers, settlers, and travellers-who
helped to lay the foundations of our literary history: David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Samuel Hearne, Susanna Moodie, Catherine Parr Traill, and Anna Jameson.
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| March 12th |
Beginnings, Part 2: Literary Ancestors
A review of the earliest Canadian writers who wrote in the forms we usually identify as "literary": Frances Brooke, John Richardson, Isabella VaIancy Crawford, Pauline Johnson, Archibald Lampman, and Sara Jeanette Duncan.
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| March 19th |
Finding a Voice
A consideration of some of the most successful of Canada's early writers, whose works might reasonably be called Canadian classics: Stephen Leacock, L. M. Montgomery, E. J. Pratt, Morley Callaghan, Sinclair Ross, and Elizabeth Smart.
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| March 26th |
Confidently Canadian
An examination of writers of mid-century and later, who were among the first to demonstrate the coming of age of Canadian writing in the second half of the twentieth century: Margaret Laurence, W. O. Mitchell, Robertson Davies, Al Purdy,. Margaret Atwood, and Leonatrl Cohen.
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| April 2nd |
Where We Are Now, Part 2
A look at some of the younger generation of Canadian writers, reflecting the diversity of Canada in the 21 st century: Wayson Choy, Shy am Selvadurai, Margaret Sweatman, Yann Martel, Michael Crummey, and Annabel Lyon.
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6 lectures, $40.00
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