3297 - Music of the Seasons - Winter Pleasures (Judith Costello)
Course Description
Instructor: Judith Costello
Although our Atlanta winters don’t usually bring many opportunities for outdoor ice skating or building snowmen, we can celebrate traditional winter activities through classical music selections. In a short two-week course we’ll go on musical sleigh rides through the atmospheric music of two generations of Mozarts, and join groups of young skaters in music by Waldteuffel and Meyerbeer — in fact, we’ll sample a great many “Winter Pleasures” (a polka by Josef Strauss). Please join us for a musical welcome to the season.
Bio: Judith Mann Costello is a native of Oak Park, Illinois, where she divided her first 20 years between the family bookstore founded by her grandfather and the Frank Lloyd Wright home where she was raised. She has lived in NYC, Florida, and Michigan, and, since 1984, in the Atlanta area. Educated at Northwestern University and Hunter College, she holds a degree in Music Journalism from the University of South Florida. Following a long career as a classical music host for NPR stations WUSF and WFBE, Judith spent 25 years as academic and political officer for the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta, retiring in 2013.