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The Arts in Five Days: Music, Movies, Art, Television and Comedy |
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Program Number: |
20374RJ |
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| Duration: |
5 nights |
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Burlingame, California
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| Price starting at: |
$899.00 - Price may vary based on date, departure city |
| Program Type:
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Music Appreciation; Art History/Criticism; History & Culture
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| Meals: |
15;
5 Breakfasts, 5 Lunches, 5 Dinners |
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Enjoy an exceptional adventure in the arts in five days. Explore beautiful art, be moved by stimulating music and revisit memorable movies and television shows.
Highlights
• Classes taught by experts in their fields.
• Field trip to San Francisco to highlight courses. See Date Specific Notes for details.
• Live entertainment closing night.
Activity Particulars
Minimal walking and standing on field trip.
Date Specific Information
5-2-2013
“The Golden Age of Dutch Painting: From Vermeer to Van Gogh.” “Classic Cinema.” “Legendary Broadway Composers.” “TV or Not TV? The Tube and Popular Culture.” “Men, Women and Comedy.” Field trip to deYoung Museum in San Francisco for docent-led visit of "Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis” and “Rembrandt’s Century.”
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8-8-2013
“Impressionists on the Water: French Art in San Francisco.” “Ballets of Stravinsky.” “The Great Religions of the World.” “The Great American Songbook: Where Have All the Tunes Gone?” “Men, Women and Comedy.” Field trip to Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for docent-led visit of Impressionist artwork set on the waterways of 19th century France in conjunction with the America’s Cup.
Enjoy the latest in hearing technology — listening devices — on this date.
11-21-2013
"Dazzling Dames of Broadway." "A Passion for Nature: French Landscape Art." "Golden Age of Opera." "TV or Not TV: The Tube & Popular Culture." "San Francisco in the Movies." Field trip to San Francisco to visit spots highlighted in the "San Francisco in the Movies" class.
Enjoy the latest in hearing technology — listening devices — on this date.
Coordinated by Road Scholar.
Burlingame
A bustling suburb set between San Francisco Bay and the foothills of the Pacific Coast Range, Burlingame affords great views of San Francisco to the north from the walking paths along the bay.
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Accommodations
Hotel overlooking San Francisco Bay. Indoor pool, gym, walking path, free airport shuttle and trolley to charming downtown Burlingame.
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| Road Scholar Instructors | | These instructors are participating on at least one date of this program. Please note that changes may occur. | John Stanley
| | John Stanley was an entertainment editor and writer for the San Francisco Chronicle for three decades. During that period, he interviewed more than 800 Hollywood stars, from Clint Eastwood to Mae West. He hosted the television show "Creature Features," and is the author of the "Creature Features Movie Guide" series. His new book, “The Gang That Shot Up Hollywood,” features interviews with major action stars of the movies. He has also created more than 800 crossword puzzles for TV Guide. | | | | Bonnie Weiss
| | Bonnie Weiss has served as writer, producer and director for ten Bay Area cabaret shows, including producing the work of Stephen Sondheim. She holds a bachelor’s in theater education and is founder and president of Musical Theater Lovers United, a club for Broadway and Hollywood music buffs. She currently teaches musical theater history and appreciation at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and writes for Stage Directions, a magazine for theater educators, and for The Sondheim Review. | | | | Maureen O'Brien
| | Maureen O'Brien earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees at Dominican University in San Rafael, California. She has taught art history courses at Sonoma State University, Dominican University and the College of Marin. Currently, she guest lectures at Dominican University and the College of Marin. | | | | Mark Levy
| | Mark Levy has performed and taught around the country for 30 years at synagogues, Jewish community centers, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen's Circle and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country and abroad as a singer and lecturer who specializes in traditional Judaic folk music, Jewish humor, and Klezmer history and theory. “Nu, You Think That's Funny?” was developed in a Catskill hotel one summer and includes jokes, film and audio clips that chronicle 100 years of Jewish jokesters. | | | | Jerry Frohmader
| | Jerry Frohmader is a composer, performer, teacher and arts administrator, whose compositions have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. As assistant dean in the School of Music at the California Institute of Arts, Jerry composed a musical score for the opera "Victory Over the Sun" by Malevich. As a musician, he has performed with the New Jersey Symphony and on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, and has been featured on the ABC News, CNN Travel and the PBS program SPARK. | | | | Bruce Bramlett
| | Rev. Bruce Bramlett is an ordained Episcopal priest, Christian scholar and activist on several social issues. He received his theological education at Union Theological Seminary in New York and his Masters of Divinity degree at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. Rev. Bramlett has been a frequent lecturer in synagogues and churches on issues of Jewish history, Christian theology, Holocaust studies, Jewish/ Christian history, antisemitism and Israeli/ Palestinian relations. | | | |
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