3776 - The Road to the Isles (Judith Costello)
Course Description
Instructor: Judith Costello
Recently, OLLI at Emory offered a four-week Zoom course, called “Music of the British Isles.” This course offered both traditional and more recently-composed musical selections depicting parts of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Ulster (Northern Ireland). If you took that course, we hope you were reacquainted with familiar tunes, and perhaps introduced to a few unfamiliar works as well.
Regardless of your participation in “The British Isles in Music,” we think you’ll enjoy this new, one-day exploration of the traditional songs of the Hebrides, Shetland, the Orkney Islands, the Scilly Isles, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands — the smaller islands and archipelagos surrounding Ireland and Great Britain. Please join us on the legendary “Road to the Isles.”
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.