19-201 GREAT MUSIC FOR BALLET

19-201 GREAT  MUSIC  FOR BALLET

 Punch Howarth, Mondays 1 - 3 pm

Sonoran Room, June 3, 10, 17, 24 July 1, 8

This course will explore two forms of ballet music. The first form will be the music composed for specific ballets and the second form the scores used to choreograph ballet dance. The course will not cover dancing but some basic ballet terminology will be introduced. The works of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and others will be examined.

Punch played in orchestras at Chautauqua, Germantown and the Philadelphia Symphony Club,  the Youngstown Philharmonic, and the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra.  He was an instructor and conductor at the U.S. Army Band School in Fort Dix, New Jersey and founded and conducted the Beaver Symphonic Wood Ensemble in Pennsylvania.