Course Description

Instructor: Judith Costello

Here is a small sample of what we’ll hear in this seven-week course: A Russian composer is inspired by Italy. An Italian composer visits Brazil. A Czech composer celebrates the America that welcomes him; one American finds inspiration in Mexico while another loves the vibrancy of Paris. Various French composers indulge in both the languor and energy of Spain, while one Englishman explores the bleak icescape of Antarctica and another captures the joyous cacophony of a Middle Eastern bazaar.

In this series, we’ll visit all seven continents through music. These works can reflect far-flung destinations, the composers’ own homelands, or places they’ve toured only in imagination. Do join us for this musical winter getaway!
 

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@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.