Course Description

Instructor: Judith Costello

December is a traditional gift-giving month, particularly if there are children in the family. In this three-week course we'll celebrate the toys and games of childhood, including toy soldiers, dolls, teddy bears, mechanical toys, an enchanted toyshop, and the special magic of a new pet. Whether you wrap gifts these days or leave that pleasant task to others, reminisce with us in music about the days when you eagerly anticipated opening them!

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.