![]() This is a 4-week course that meets during the first half of the semester. Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 September 13 through October 4 (4 weeks) Living and Dancing in New Harmony - Cancelled His recent OLLI courses on Aesop and Samuel Beckett received strong reviews for the instructor’s broad knowledge and skillful teaching. His reviews and essays have appeared in American Academic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Language Notes, World Literature Today, and other journals. Regier is the author of three books and editor of another. ![]() At the University of Nebraska Press he originated Bach Perspectives, Beethoven Forum, and Brahms Studies and published books by Richard Wagner, Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger at the University of Illinois Press he published The Beethoven Sketchbook Series, edited by Professor William Kinderman. Instructor: Willis Regier retired in 2015 as the Director of the University of Illinois Press. OLLI members who’ve attended Dylan’s concerts are especially encouraged to enroll. If you’ve lived with Dylan most of your life, please share. If you’ve lost track of Dylan, this is a chance to catch up. ![]() We will ask: In what genres did Dylan excel? Are there distinct phases in his career? Which performers covered a Dylan song better than Dylan did? We will compare favorite albums and songs. We will discuss Dylan’s career, lyrics, and public persona, among other topics. No one asks any longer why he calls his current round of public performances his “Never Ending Tour.” In a 1968 interview he said, “I’m a firm believer in the longer you live, the better you get.” Forty-eight years later we can ask whether he was right. He has released sixty albums, including six retrospectives. This is a 4-week course that meets during the first half of the semesterĭylan is 75 this year and still active. Thursday, 11:00-12:30 September 15 through October 6 (4 weeks) All courses meet at OLLI’s location in the M2 Building, 301 North Neil Street (Suite 201), downtown Champaign. An overview of class meeting times can be found here. (Note: These categories recognize the predominant discipline, but many of these courses are interdisciplinary in their focus.)Īll courses meet for 8 weeks unless otherwise noted in the description. We are pleased to present these descriptions of our fall semester courses, arranged by subject area.
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