Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

When have movie directors turned to great works of classical music as background? You will recognize the famous excerpts we’ll watch in an early Disney cartoon and two blockbuster war movies (Apocalypse Now and Platoon). Classical masterpieces illustrate cosmic force, as we’ll see in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Classic horror films turned to modern music, as we see in The Shining. We’ll also study the opera scenes in some of Hollywood’s greatest films, like Pretty Woman.