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IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
This landmark film, The Red Shoes (1948), starring Moira Shearer, is a wonderfully stylized story based on Hans Christian Anderson’s dark fairy tale of the same name. The film is set in post-WWII London. It is famous for its beautiful surreal ballet scenes as it tells the story of a young promising ballerina who is torn between two creative, possessive men: a struggling composer and an autocratic dance impresario. The film plumbs the dark recesses of the imagination: dangerous, glorious, absurd, and terrifying by turns. Toby Teorey is the current Vice Chair of the Elderwise Council. He is retired from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, and in retirement pursues his enduring love of world history, music, and culture.
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Fee: $15.00
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Instructor(s): Toby Teorey
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Dates: 1/22/2025 - 1/22/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
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Building: Vineyard Church
Room: Classroom at the Vineyard Church
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IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
Sandwiched between 1950s rock ‘n’ roll and the mid-1960s British invasion, brilliant songwriting teams in two Manhattan office buildings made pop music magic. Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, were striving Jewish youth voicing their own experiences for other teens and young adults. “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” and “Up On the Roof” melded black and white, classical and Latin, with a strong female presence. Brill Building pop created a soundtrack for the baby boom generation that remains compelling 60 years later. Michael Homel is Professor Emeritus of History at Eastern Michigan University. He specializes in 20th century American history and American urban history. He is the author of Unlocking City Hall: Exploring the History of Local Government and Politics, and other publications on urban politics and education.
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Fee: $30.00
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Instructor(s): Michael Homel
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Dates: 3/12/2025 - 3/19/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sessions: 2
Days: W
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Building: Vineyard Church
Room: Classroom at the Vineyard Church
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IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
Entrepreneur, genius, and scoundrel, Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes in 1909. For the next 20 years, he brought together composers, artists, and dancers to create some of the most exciting and controversial ballets of the 20th century including the three groundbreaking Stravinsky scores: The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. We will first survey the people and productions of the Ballets Russes. Then we will watch complete performances, including The Firebird and Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun with the original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Henry Aldridge is an Eastern Michigan University Professor Emeritus of Electronic Media and Film Studies and an avid music lover.
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Fee: $15.00
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Instructor(s): Henry B. Aldridge
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Dates: 3/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Vineyard Church
Room: Classroom at the Vineyard Church
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IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
The American Musical is often characterized as diversion, distraction, and amusement, yet from the earliest days of Vaudeville to the present, the musicals have both reflected and shaped our civic and social values. In this uniquely American art form composers, lyrists, and performers have employed sentiment and satire, melody and mirth, to both entertain and enlighten America’s distinctively heterogenous audiences. In this class, Ken Stevens will explore the ideals and values in shows by time honored theatre luminaries like Rodgers, Kern, Sondheim, Williams, and more recent award winners like Kander and Ebb, Lin Manuel Miranda, and Terrence McNally, while considering the evolution of audience characteristics over the decades. Ken Stevens came to Michigan from the University of Cincinnati. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University, where he created both the musical theater program and the graduate and undergraduate programs in arts management.
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Fee: $15.00
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Instructor(s): Ken Stevens
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Dates: 3/20/2025 - 3/20/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Building: Vineyard Church
Room: Classroom at the Vineyard Church
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IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
An arranged partnership between England’s foremost composer of classical music and its leading creator of light comic verse might appear to be a recipe for impossible expectations. And, for the first few years of their collaboration, the comic operas produced by William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan proved to be a mixed bag of successes and disappointments. Beginning in 1878, however, with the debut of HMS Pinafore (or The Lass That Loved a Sailor), the team of Gilbert and Sullivan became an international sensation, evolving into a cultural institution in Great Britain and in her former colonies around the world. In this presentation, Todd Maslyk invites you to enter the Topsy-Turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan, to investigate why their work continues to be staged more often than that of any author not named William Shakespeare, and to take a closer look at HMS Pinafore, which will be staged by the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society (UMGASS) this April. Todd Maslyk is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, and the current president of UMGASS. He has been a Gilbert and Sullivan fan since a childhood encounter with The Mikado and is regularly to be found around campus in Ann Arbor pushing people in the direction of the nearest theater.
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Fee: $15.00
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Instructor(s): Todd Maslyk
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Dates: 3/13/2025 - 3/13/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Building: Vineyard Church
Room: Classroom at the Vineyard Church
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