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Summer Schools in Session! Classes start Monday, June 3 you can still register: 1. To register:Sign In (returningmembers) or Create an Account(new to Osher) 2. Click Register(under the Summer 2025 block) 3. FIRST add a Membership to your cart 4. Search for a course and Add to Cart. Repeat to select additional courses 5. Click Check Out.Follow the prompts to complete registration and Pay > Summer 2025 > Search by Subject > Art, Music & Film

Art, Music & Film   

  • NEW! NEW! Improve Your Drawing Skills
  • Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/16/2025
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 3
    Building: Campus Center
    Room: Room 31
    Instructor(s): Richard Corwin
    Fee: $0.00

    "This coursed is designed to help mid-level artists how to improve fundamentals of good perspective drawing, composition, and some basic anatomy. Assignments are an essential part of this course. Some assignments may be used for critique and example.
    At course end it is supposed that students will improve with their assignments and have confidence in their finished works.   "

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  • NEW! NEW! Simply Sondheim
  • Dates: 6/5/2025 - 6/26/2025
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 3
    Building: Campus Center
    Room: Little Theatre
    Instructor(s): Issa Puttre
    Fee: $0.00

    Stephen Sondheim is known as one of the most brilliant composers to conquer Broadway. From his start with musicals like West Side Story and Gypsy to his numerous Tony award winning shows through the 70s, 80s and 90s. This course will look at the many shows Sondheim brought to the stage and his process in creating a catalog of shows on a range of topics. Course will utilize footage and recordings of Sondheim’s shows and music as well as interviews featuring the composer.

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  • The Piano is Grand: A Brief History
  • Dates: 6/11/2025 - 6/25/2025
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 3
    Building: School of Education
    Room: Room 1056
    Instructor(s): Carol Huber
    Fee: $0.00

    After a cursory look at predecessor instruments, we will trace the piano’s development looking at builders, artists, marketing and technology, as well as social and economic influences. Then, the focus will be on the two leading American piano manufacturers, how that whittled down to one, and why there are noticeable differences between instruments.

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  • NEW! NEW! Turner's Brush: Capturing Nature's Fury and Industry's Rise
  • Dates: 6/26/2025 - 6/26/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 1
    Building: School of Education
    Room: Room 1056
    Instructor(s): Sandra Stephan
    Fee: $0.00

    "In celebration of the 250th year of his birth, this class will examine the works of J. M. W, Turner, England's foremost painter of landscapes and seascapes.  We will focus on his development from a late 18th-century student of Sir Joshua Reynolds to his growing freedom from tradition as he created works, increasingly abstract, that were both acclaimed and criticized in his own time.  Turner's paintings are extraordinarily modern in style and subject matter.  We will look at his career, his legacy, and his remarkably eccentric personal life.   Known as the ""Painter of Light,"" Turner's painting, “the Fighting Temeraire” has been acclaimed Britain’s favorite work of art.

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  • NEW! NEW! Celebrating John Williams
  • Dates: 6/30/2025 - 6/30/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 1
    Building: Virginia Greens Retirement Community
    Room: Theatre
    Instructor(s): Dan Sherman
    Fee: $0.00

    Born in 1932, John Williams has written some of best-known film scores of all time, including Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., and Schindler’s List. This talk will place Williams in the history of film music, review his long career, and show many clips from movies he has scored, along with interviews. Join us to celebrate the contributions of this great composer and enjoy some of his greatest scores.

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