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Text Box:     The Anatomy of Opera      FALL 2007 ________________________   Wednesday Afternoons   1:30 – 3:30 p.m.   Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2007 ________________________    Auditorium O’Shaughnessy Educational Center University of St. Thomas St. Paul Campus       Sponsored by: Center for Senior Citizens’ Education       Text Box:     The Anatomy of Opera      FALL 2007 ________________________   Wednesday Afternoons   1:30 – 3:30 p.m.   Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2007 ________________________    Auditorium O’Shaughnessy Educational Center University of St. Thomas St. Paul Campus       Sponsored by: Center for Senior Citizens’ Education       Text Box:   The Anatomy of Opera   Throughout history, composers, producers, and patrons have interpreted opera to be a unique mixture of music and theater.  From the        Florentine Camerata to the modern day, opera has been reinterpreted to reflect the time period it was produced in.  Anatomy of Opera will look at where opera came from and how it has been constantly redefined to reflect the culture and  era that produced it.  Topics ranging from the role of women as patrons of opera in 17th      century Italy to how literature has inspired   composers, to the elements involved in          producing opera today, will be presented by    local and national opera experts.   ___________________________________   Speakers   Jamie Andrews, Community Education Director The Minnesota Opera   Marcia Aubineau, Language Arts Instruction School of Education, University of St. Thomas   Swen Friedrich, Curator of Wagner Archives Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Germany   Kelly Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology University of Minnesota-Twin Cities   William Lutes, Opera Department University of Wisconsin-Madison; Metropolitan   Opera Radio Broadcast Quiz Panelist   Kevin Ramach, Technical Director The Minnesota Opera   Doug Scholz-Carlson, Actor, director         Text Box:   The Anatomy of Opera   Throughout history, composers, producers, and patrons have interpreted opera to be a unique mixture of music and theater.  From the        Florentine Camerata to the modern day, opera has been reinterpreted to reflect the time period it was produced in.  Anatomy of Opera will look at where opera came from and how it has been constantly redefined to reflect the culture and  era that produced it.  Topics ranging from the role of women as patrons of opera in 17th      century Italy to how literature has inspired   composers, to the elements involved in          producing opera today, will be presented by    local and national opera experts.   ___________________________________   Speakers   Jamie Andrews, Community Education Director The Minnesota Opera   Marcia Aubineau, Language Arts Instruction School of Education, University of St. Thomas   Swen Friedrich, Curator of Wagner Archives Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Germany   Kelly Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology University of Minnesota-Twin Cities   William Lutes, Opera Department University of Wisconsin-Madison; Metropolitan   Opera Radio Broadcast Quiz Panelist   Kevin Ramach, Technical Director The Minnesota Opera   Doug Scholz-Carlson, Actor, director        

 

 

Classic British Fiction

with

Dr. Michael Allen Mikolajczak

SPRING 2008
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Wednesday Afternoons
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
March 26 - May 14, 2007
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Auditorium
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul Campus

“Classic British Fiction” examines four masterpieces - four windows on four particular worlds - four windows that, though years away in their making, are windows on 2008.  Still.  And always.  The four works are “classics” because they speak to us across the chasm of time; they help us to understand our concerns, worries, and travails.  Finding love and union, finding  one’s position in the world, negotiating friendship and love, dealing with an indifferent city and the loss of love and the reality of death - these are our concerns.  A classic has universality, specificity, and relevance.  We are Anne, Pip, Charles, and Gabriel Conroy.  So, join us to see other times,  and in that seeing, to see our time and our lives.

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Dr. Michael Allen Mikolajczak,  Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, 16th and 17th  century literature, Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy, rhetoric, and religion and literature.  He has served as chair of the Department of English, director of its graduate program, and founding  editor of Logos:  A  Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture.     Currently, he is director of the university’s Aquinas Scholars Honors Program.  He has published on Shakespeare, Milton, Walker Percy, Richard Wilbur, academic freedom, analytical bibliography, and other topics.

1.  March 26     Persuasion  (Jane Austen)

2.  April 2         Austen’s last novel is considered by aficionados and critics as her best.  Although its                   atmosphere is darker than her previous work, it shares with them a focus on passion,                   social stricture, and moral complexity.  The daughter of a vain father, the victim of callous                   and exploitative sisters, Anne Elliot emerges in a happy “circumstance” at the end: she                   regains the love of a man she regretfully turned away when she possessed her
                  “bloom.” Austen’s customary irony, wit, and graceful expression dramatize Anne’s story.

3.  April 9         Great Expectations  (Charles Dickens)

4.  April 16       One critic describes this late, highly-regarded novel as “penance by the mature, now clear                  seeing Dickens.”  The novel contains an array of fascinating characters, an undercurrent                  of crime and violence, and a piercing investigation of social mores.  It exposes false
                 values.  For lovers of The Christmas Carol this is the novel to cherish above and beyond
                 Ebenezer Scrooge’s ghost-driven change of heart.

5.  April 23       Brideshead Revisited  (Evelyn Waugh)

6.  April 30       This “Catholic” or “Anglo-Catholic” novel comes from one of the orneriest, darkest,
                 most satirical writers of the 20th century.  Charles Ryder, an Oxford graduate and an
                 agnostic, meets Sebastian Flyte and gets drawn into his wealthy, dysfunctional, Catholic
                 family.  Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story about the time ‘between the wars,” hinting
                 at the ways that the “sordid” can lead to “grace.”  It’s a novel about drinking, partying, and
                 praying.

7.  May 7         Dubliners  (James Joyce)

8.  May 14       Paralysis and morbidity!  Joyce had a hard time getting his novelistic-collection of stories
                       published because of fear of “obscenity and libel.”  Accepted in 1906, the collection did
                       not come out until eight years later.  Joyce wrote his stories “to betray the soul of that
                       hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.”  The stories explore Ireland’s (the
                       Ireland of Joyce) intellectual, moral, and spiritual vacuity.  They look hard at the condition
                       of “death in life.”  They are Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner told by the sailor of
                       20th century Dublin.

Registration fee with four novels:  $72
Registration fee, only:  $60
Mail your check, payable to the University of St. Thomas and your completed registration form to:   Center for Senior Citizens’ Education   LOR 309
                                      University of St. Thomas
                                      2115 Summit Avenue
                                      St. Paul, MN  55105-1096

                                                                                        Telephone: ( 651) 962-5188

Center for Senior Citizens’ Education Web site:http://www.stthomas.edu/csce


All sessions will be held in the auditorium of O’Shaughnessy      Educational Center,     University of
St. Thomas, St. Paul campus, on Cleveland  between Portland & Ashland Avenues.

 

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