3559 - The Arabian Nights in Music (Judith Costello)
Course Description
Instructor: Judith Costello
Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Scheherazade the story-telling bride of a cruel Sultan -- the very names bring to mind the lavish courts and hidden passageways of the ancient Middle East. Composers in countless genres have delighted in capturing in music the most memorable stories from "The Thousand Nights and a Night."
From great symphonic works to soundtracks of the adventure movies of the mid-20th century, please join us and indulge your childhood imagination as you listen to compelling works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Strauss II, Bernard Herrmann, and many others.
Bio: Judith Costello teaches courses on music about non-musical subjects -- the weather, works of literature, landscapes, animals, human enterprises -- and has been an OLLI at Emory instructor for the past two years. She is a native of Oak Park, Illinois, and has lived in New York, Florida, and Michigan. She was producer and on-air host of classical music programs for NPR stations WUSF (Tampa, Florida) and WFBE (Flint, Michigan), and later worked for 25 years as Political and Academic Officer at the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta before retiring in 2013.