New Enrichment Opportunities Are Available For Your Pleasure
The Huntington Library-USC Emeriti Center lecture series on Japanese gardens will continue on January 24, 2012 and April 17, 2012 in Friends’ Hall at the Huntington. All lectures are FREE. Partial support for this lecture series is provided by the USC Emeriti Center’s Norboru Inamoto Endowment Fund. Felice Fisher, Curator of Japanese Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will speak about the Japanese Tea Garden in Philadelphia on Jan. 24. The last lecture, on April 17, will be given by Jim Folsom, Director of Botanical Gardens, who will discuss the restoration of the Huntington Japanese Garden and the centennial celebration planned for the garden’s reopening in 2012. Please join us.
The Great American Songwriters is a NEW class that will be offered on Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. for eight weeks by Saul Jacobs and Bob Lipson on the University Park Campus. Classes begin Oct. 11 and continue through Dec. 6. Learn about the music and the lives of the geniuses who produced the “Golden Age” of American popular music: Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Rodgers and Hart, Jerome Kern, Lerner and Loewe, and Cole Porter. The class will be co-sponsored by USC Continuing Education, which joined resources with the New York Times Knowledge Network www.nytimes.com/usc on June 28, 2011. The fee is $120, and a minimum enrollment of 15 students is necessary.
Poetry: Singing It, Writing It, Understanding It is another NEW class that will be presented on Wednesday afternoons from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. for five weeks by Professor James Kincaid (English) on the University Park Campus. Jim describes it as “a fusion course that engages us in all manner of poetry – including your own – as we explore the connections between poetry and music (which is both aural and philosophical), read some great (and maybe less-great) poems, and try our hand at some fun poetry writing. Previous experience is not at all necessary.” The class will be taught from Sept. 28 – Oct. 26 on the University Park Campus. The fee is $75.
Vocal Conditioning (Cancelled) will be taught for six weeks by former USC Thornton School of Music Dean, William Thomson on Thursday mornings from 11 a.m. – Noon. Songs, readings and exercises are calculated for regaining, strengthening and retaining vigor in your vocal chords. Singing experience is not necessary – the goal is a regimen of proper exercise. The class will be taught from Oct. 13 through Nov. 17 on the University Park Campus. Emily Loynachan, who is majoring in Gerontology and earning a minor in musical studies (voice), has agreed to assist Professor Thomson. The course fee is $30.To enroll in one or more classes, call: (213) 740-7122 or email: ecrsvp@usc.edu.