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We invite you to join us for another sentimental journey highlighting the greatest entertainers of our lifetimes. We’ll revisit extraordinary stars whose careers dominated the 20th Century and beyond. Expect to be moved as you learn about their families, interviews, performances, awards and scandals through discussions and special videos. You’ll be challenged with weekly clues to guess the newest superstar. We especially enjoy making you smile and reminisce in a welcoming stress-free zone while sharing experiences with your OLLI friends.

This course will take you on the journey of the Native North Americans to Long Island that starts in Siberia some 30,000 year ago. Along the way we will learn of their hardships, their amazing cultural developments, their crafts, skills, living styles and their societal norms. I think you will be astonished about what we will discover about their first 14,000 years in North America, and finally saddened by their demise at the hands of european explorers and settlers in the last 1,500 years of their existence.. This is truly an epic journey and story!

This workshop will present a broad overview of music that begins with the lyrical poems of the middle ages, the harmonies of the Renaissance, and the drama of the baroque era. We will preview both solo and symphonic works through the classical and romantic periods with an emphasis on high energy pieces. The modern era will cover both music and dance including flamenco, tango, classical guitar, jazz (Count Basie, Big Band, others), Gypsy song, Mariachi, and Mambo.

John Steinbeck's early collection of short stories, The Long Valley (including The Red Pony stories), 1938, presents some of his best and most powerful work. The at-times violent, yet always beautiful, stories paint a vivid and moving picture of the California landscape in which Steinbeck spent his early life and career. We will read and discuss ten of the stories.

This semester we’ll read and discuss in depth The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, and A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee.