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Listen! Opera, Part 1, 10:00 AM

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Date and Time

Friday, February 28, 2025, 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM

Location

Virtual
MD
USA

Event Contact(s)

JihJen Joy Cheung

Registration Info

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Capacity

50 Total Slots

19 Available Slot(s)

About this event

Topic: OPERA

Speaker: Professor Tom Benjamin

OPERA! (Not Grand Ole Oprey). Which Dr. Johnson famously described as "an exotic and extravagant entertainment." We'll spend some time with the history and development of opera, and then focus on opera as drama- what does the music bring to the experience, and how does it reveal character and built dramatic tension? We'll visit some exciting stagings and singers, and have good fun along the way. No doubt we'll need more than one episode for this huge and fascinating topic! And you don't need to pay $200 a seat, nor put on your tux.

All are welcome; technical knowledge of music is not needed. This is the 36th monthly lecture.
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Tom Benjamin, a new TVIH member and distinguished musician and educator, will offer a series of music education lectures for music lovers. If you like to sing,, play an instrument, or just enjoy listening to music, this program is for you. This program is free and open to TVIH members and the public.

Our Speaker:

Tom Benjamin is a composer, music theorist, conductor and performer- only because he can't decide what he wants to do when he grows up. He tau ght music theory and composition for far too many years at the University of Houston, the National Music Camp (Interlochen) and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins, where he chaired the Theory Department. Tom has just retired from a wonderful 30-year gig as Minister of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia. He's looking forward to a new and very different kind of teaching with the swift folks at TVIH.

Alan Coltri and Laurie Coltri will provide technical assistance in the zoom meeting room.

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