1999-2000 PROGRAM
ETHICAL ISSUES IN OUR TIMES: CHANGES, CHALLENGES, CHOICES
Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 1999 - Course Fee: $30
This course of 5 lectures explores current ethical issues and the changes, challenges and choices facing society. Subjects include: traditional values in a pluralistic society and how we reconcile the common good with an inclusive justice system; ethics and economics - is "conventional morality" inappropriate to modern economic systems?; critical issues in contemporary medical ethics - hopes and false hopes; personal ethics in a pluralist world of infinite choices; ethics in politics - the "I" of the storm.
THE SHAW'S THE THING: PROLOGUE TO SHAW 2000
November 26, 1999 - Seminar Fee: $40
This one-day seminar, including lunch, provides an outlook into the upcoming 2000 program for the Shaw Festival. Arnold Edinborough and Denis Johnston, twp multi-talented, charming, witty and spontaneous commentators, will give a stimulating, scholarly and informed prologue to the Shaw Festival for 2000. Mr. Edinborough is an educator, editor, author and dedicated promoter of the Arts in Canada. Mr. Johnston is Director of the Academy at the Shaw Festival.
WESTERN EUROPE AT THE TURN OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 2000 - Course Fee: $30
This course of 5 lectures reflects on the turn of the last millennium as we rapidly approach the year 2000 contrasting the end of the First Millennium as an apocalyptic symbol with its place as a creative age in Western European history. Subjects include: historian's view of medieval anxiety approaching the year 1000; the classical medieval concept of the Three Orders of Society to reconcile human equality before God with inequality in this world; the first of the Three Orders - Those Who Fight - and the spread of medieval lordship;
the Second Order - The Church (Those Who Pray) - and a series of monastic reforms emanating from England, Burgandy and the Low Countries; the Third Order - Those Who Work - and the demise of true slavery in much of Europe, the levelling of the rural population through serfdom and the displacement of emporia by fairs and towns; looking forward in time from the year 1000 to the strong, unifying kingship of England, the rural communalism of Switzerland, its urban counterpart in Italy and the diverging directions of feudal anarchy in Germany and Catalonia.
THE ENJOYMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
April 7, 14, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 2000 - Course Fee: $35
This course of 6 lectures explores a wide variety of contemporary music. Subjects include: the future of classical music throughout the 20th century and some of the philosophical, sociological and aesthetic questions relating to the plight of the contemporary composer; how musical cues and techniques create mood and action from the silent era to present-day Hollywood; the origin of jazz and the beginning of this modern sound in the music of Louis Armstrong and New Orleans Jazz; the multi-faceted character of George Gershwin's compositional style and his contributions to both popular music and art music; the music of the early 20th Century characterized by its diversity and striking experimentation with new approaches to form, harmony and rhythm; the birth of Cool Jazz during the 1940's as a subcategory of Bebop through the music of Miles Davis the innovator.
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