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Spring 2007 Courses At Home with Music Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs Molecular Medicine Jamestown, Virginia Domestic Pressure Points Reading Edith Wharton Mount Eliza: A Study Tour Berkeley, California: A Study Tour

At Home with Music Five Thursdays, January 18 and 25 and February 1, 8, and 15, 10:30 a.m–noon Private houses; addresses will be given to subscribers Limited enrollment In a variety of home settings, pianist Clive Swansbourne will give a series of lecture-performances illustrating the diversity of musical language. He will discuss stylistic, formal, and technical aspects of music from different periods, sometimes concentrating on a single composition in detail. Clive Swansbourne studied at the Royal College of Music in London and later received his doctorate from the Yale School of Music. He has won prizes in international competitions and performed with orchestras and at music festivals in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. In 1999 he inaugurated an ongoing series of lecture-recitals, “Classical Piano Matters,” for radio broadcast and cassette/CD distribution. In the fall of 2005 he performed the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle to packed houses at the Rothko Chapel and presented a corresponding lecture series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Links to sites outside of The Houston Seminar are not under their control and The Houston Seminar is not responsible for the information or links you may find there.  The presence of the link is not intended to imply The Houston Seminar endorsement.