ALL1444-Z 12 Weeks Wednesdays 3:00-4:20 Start Date 10-Sep
Zoom Limit 25
We all have favorite pieces of music that we like more than others. Do we think they’re actually better than the others? How do we compare them? And how do we judge quality? This course pits great masterworks of classical music against each other and poses these impossible questions about all of them. It should make for a lively discussion about why we like what we like, what the works in question are actually trying to achieve, how well they succeed, and the complex relationships between knowledge, taste and judgment. Performance videos will range from obvious choices to pieces you’ve probably never heard.
Coordinator: John Temple 
John is a retired business writer, lifelong listener, long-ago music critic and 22-year Barnstable Village resident. This will be his fifteenth ALL course, and like the others it will focus on a relatively narrow area within the world of classical music. Prior examples have ranged from specific genres (chamber music, choral works, Mozart piano concertos) to topics that cross categories (nationalism in music, music of liberation, music of the 1930s, etc.).