Course No. 756 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Childhood 2. Mahler the Conductor 3. Early Songs and Symphony No. 1 4. The Wunderhorn Symphonies 5. Alma and Vienna 6. Family Life and Symphony No. 5 7. Symphony No. 6, and Das Lied von der Erde 8. Das Lied, Final Symphonies, and the End
Mary's first original children's book since The Snow Queen has sold 100,000 copies since its debut. She puts her lavish touch to a reverent and radiant poem by nineteenth-century clergyman William Henry Channing. My Symphony, this brief yet powerful verse, lists 18 inspirational ways to live a virtuous life; Mary Engelbreit's 18 original illustrations accompany them and help children visualize how they can grow up strong and pure, too.
Course No. 751 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Early Life 2. The Lean Years and the Pre-Classical Style 3. Haydn’s Marriage and Esterhaza 4. Esterhaza Continued 5. The Classical String Quartet and the Classical Symphony 6. London 7. Beethoven, London Again, and Breakthrough 8. The Creation, The Seasons, and the End
From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
