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August 9 – August 16 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 2Instructor: Steven Friedman, Music HistorianLocations: Online ClassJohn Raitt, Alfred Drake, Yul Brynner, and Rex Harrison are just a few of the men who created legendary Broadway roles, using their unique on-stage personae to carve out their careers and individual brands. In this musically-packed session, you’ll learn about these men and the roles they created. Steve Friedman will infuse his presentation with many... read more -
August 13 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineThis class will focus on the top dozen cases, both civil and criminal, heard by the Court during the past year. Special emphasis will be placed on evolving trends and voting blocks on the Court. As always, issues related to criminal decisions will be discussed in... read more -
August 9 – August 16 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 2Instructor: Steven Friedman, Music HistorianLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreJohn Raitt, Alfred Drake, Yul Brynner, and Rex Harrison are just a few of the men who created legendary Broadway roles, using their unique on-stage personae to carve out their careers and individual brands. In this musically-packed session, you’ll learn about these men and the roles they created. Steve Friedman will infuse his presentation with many... read more
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August 6 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Julie Kurzava, Faculty, Loyola UniversityLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineThis famous avant garde composer was forced by the Nazis to relocate to New York City in 1933. There, Weill reinvented himself as a Broadway composer, working in a new style, a new language and with new collaborators. amous pieces include "Threepenny Opera", "Lady in the Dark", "Lost in the Stars", "Street... read more -
RECORDEDAugust 14 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeLocations: Online Class(Save $12 when you also sign up for related classes #313, 354, 395.) When we hear the term "Epicurean" today, we think of foodies who have good taste in the culinary realm and when someone calls you "stoic" it means that you have an emotional even keel. How do these notions relate to the thought of Epicurus and the Greek and Roman Stoics? After Aristotle,... read more -
August 9 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Online ClassIn the first century, a Roman slave named Epictetus earned his freedom. Literate, well-read, and lame from torture, Epictetus rose from obscurity to fame, attracting many students to his philosophical discourses. Along with Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, Epictetus represents the best of the wisdom of Stoicism, a practical, down-to-earth philosophy of... read more -
August 16 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Daryl Davis, MusicianLocations: Online ClassThe latest biopic and box office smash, "Elvis," tell the story of one of the greatest and most popular entertainers ever and his manager. But there were a number of things the film left out. Daryl Davis will fill in some of those stories, with musical... read more -
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August 16 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Daryl Davis, MusicianLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThe latest biopic and box office smash, "Elvis," tell the story of one of the greatest and most popular entertainers ever and his manager. But there were a number of things the film left out. Daryl Davis will fill in some of those stories, with musical... read more
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August 6 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerLocations: Online ClassDr. A.C. Barnes made his fortune marketing patent medicine in “Mainline” Philadelphia. In establishing the Barnes Foundation, he sought to use art as a tool to teach students how to think critically. To that end, from 1912 until his death in 1951, Barnes purchased hundreds of works of art – from Impressionists to African masks – which he arranged... read more -
August 10 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Daryl Davis, MusicianLocations: Online ClassWhen Rock'n'Roll became the latest craze, many Country and Western artists coming from a Hillbilly music background began trying to cash in on the latest trend. This hybrid that melded the two genres became known as Rockabilly. We'll learn about some of the great ones who popularized this... read more -
August 16 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Marti Brown Bailey, BS, CSA, CADDCT, CDPLocations: Online ClassAs we get older, we all notice changes in our memory or thinking ability. Learn answers to common questions like: - What if when I go into the kitchen, I “forget” why I went there? - Why do I sometimes say things that I previously would have kept to myself? - What is classified as normal aging? - How do you identify when it is important to... read more -
August 10 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Daryl Davis, MusicianLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreWhen Rock'n'Roll became the latest craze, many Country and Western artists coming from a Hillbilly music background began trying to cash in on the latest trend. This hybrid that melded the two genres became known as Rockabilly. We'll learn about some of the great ones who popularized this... read more
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August 7 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Kim Levone, Producer, and CastLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreBack by popular demand. We're turning Oasis into a comedy club, again! Comedy as a Second Language is a live, interactive comedy show featuring the stand-up comedy of immigrant and 1st generation performers. Audiences love this show! Lots of fun with our comics as they share stories and jokes about their lives, families and their relationship with their... read more -
August 16 Wednesday2:30 PM → 4:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Beth Kimel, FacilitatorLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreTED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). This month, we will watch and discuss Choice, Happiness and Spaghetti Sauce. "Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice... read more -
August 10 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Ali Soltani, Owner/Project Manager and Melissa Bressler, Occupational Therapist, HandyProLocations: Online ClassIs your home aging gracefully with you? This educational discussion introduces what is a home modification, how home modifications can play an important role in improving one's safety and independence as one grows older, why planning ahead before a fall or health condition can be beneficial, what are simple and low-cost home modifications, and which home... read more -
August 10 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Ali Soltani, Owner/Project Manager and Melissa Bressler, Occupational Therapist, HandyProLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreIs your home aging gracefully with you? This educational discussion introduces what is a home modification, how home modifications can play an important role in improving one's safety and independence as one grows older, why planning ahead before a fall or health condition can be beneficial, what are simple and low-cost home modifications, and which home... read more
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August 17 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeLocations: Online ClassTheir salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus was the incubator of a thousand intellectual developments. They hosted the likes of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder. They were the parents of modernism, and their relationship so close that Stein wrote Toklas' autobiography. This lecture will examine their... read more -
August 8 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeLocations: Online ClassAre there thoughts we cannot think and if so, how can we think about them? What are the limits of thoughts? Are they indicative of aspects of the world or simply arbitrary boundaries of our neurological wiring? We can surely think of thinks that are false, but can we imagine that which is impossible? Could there be truths that we cannot know and if so, how... read more -
August 11 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Dan Sherman, Musical Theatre InstructorLocations: Online ClassAlthough some might think classical music is removed from the world of politics, there has long been a political overtone to how classical music is presented and its performers received. This (non-political!) class will discuss fascinating history of how classical music has interacted with larger political history in the two world wars and in particular the... read more -
August 8 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Judy Scott Feldman, Ph.D., Art Historian/National Mall CoalitionLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with one of the greatest collections of Western (European) art in the world, is impossible to appreciate in one visit, or even two or three. In this two-part virtual tour, we’ll skip effortlessly from gallery to gallery to highlight some of the masterpieces of painting and sculpture in the Met. Moving... read more
