BACL TEACHER BIOGRAPHIES
RICHARD ALDAG:
1) THE GLORIOUS MUSIC OF MOZART
2) THE SYMPHONY FROM BEETHOVEN TO THE PRESENT
3) THE CONCERTON IN THE BAROQUE AND CLASSIC ERAS
4) ROMANTIC PIANO MUSIC
5) CLASSICAL MUSIC FROM 1900 TO 1945
6) CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY
7) THE EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC OF BACH
8) THE MUSIC OF AARON COPLAND
9) 20TH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC GIANTS
10) THE MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN
11) THE BALLETS OF STRAVINSKY
RICHARD ALDAG was engaged as the Executive Director of the Napa Valley Symphony in November 2006. Prior to coming to the Symphony, Richard had served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and as a Development Manager at Quinn Associates, a San Francisco based arts management and fundraising company serving non-profit arts organizations. Other administrative positions he has held include Executive Director of Los Lupeños de Sa José and Founder/Director of the Silicon Valley Youth Conservatory at San Jose State University. As an educator, he has served on the faculties of San Jose State University, Fordham University, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Richard is an active composer whose works have been commissioned and performed by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Earplay, the Shanghai Symphony, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and others.
JEFF APPLEBAUM – TODAY'S WORLD OF COMEDY
After 18 years in California, New York native JEFF APPLEBAUM is finally learning to speak English. Jeff's clean comedy examines his particular life experiences, which include being the only white kid on his Little League team in Queens, having a Chinese wife who orders from takeout menus in fluent Mandarin and raising a son who calls himself Jewnese because he says it sounds better than Chineish. Jeff made his national TV debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He has performed with comic legends Robert Klein, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams and Kevin Pollak. Jeff was cast by Sandy Hackett, the late Buddy Hackett's son, to play the principal role of Joey Bishop in the long-running musical tribute The Rat Pack is Back. He also appears in the The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith. In addition, Jeff won the Comedian of the Year 2003 in the San Francisco Bay Area Cabaret Competition. Jeff has not one but two engineering degrees from MIT. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Silicon Valley.
GEORGE BOYET -- NAPA VALLEY HISTORY
George earned his BA in history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and his MA in political science at Oklahoma State University. For over three decades he taught history, political science, and sociology at Napa Valley College. A theater fan, classical music-lover and longtime tennis aficionado, George has traveled widely. He stays involved in local politics, gourmet food and wine groups, and is a board member of the Napa County Historical Society, Napa Bocce Association, and Napa Valley Retired Teachers.
RALPH BEREN: JEWISH HUMOR: ON THE OTHER HAND...
Ralph Beren taught high school outside of Philadelphia in the 1960s before getting his doctorate in education. Two of his students, in different years, were baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson (at Cheltenham High School) and current Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu (whose family lived in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania during Netanyahu's high school years). After moving to the Bay Area in 1995, he directed the secondary teacher training program at San Francisco State University until his retirement in 2006. In recent years, Beren has taught Jewish humor at - in his estimation - every JCC in the Bay Area and dozens of synagogues. He's bound to pop up at any time on a Jewish organization's schedule, although he does have a steady gig, as well: teaching a Jewish humor class to high school students at Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon.
BRUCE BRAMLETT:
RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
UNFAMILIAR RELIGIONS
HISTORY OF ISRAEL TO THE FIRST CENTURY BCE
BIRTH OF ISLAM IN THE CONTEXT OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
The Rev. Bruce R. Bramlett is the Program Coordinator for the "Extremes of Hate: Holocaust Studies and Critical Thinking" program at the Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice in San Jose. He provides educational programming and heads a Holocaust Survivors' Speakers Bureau for Bay Area schools and institutions. As an ordained Episcopal priest, he has spent most of his career as a teacher and pastor with a passion for work in the Jewish-Christian encounter. Rev. Bramlett did graduate work at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in Post-Holocaust Christian Thought, Jewish-Christian Relations and Holocaust Studies, and regularly lectures at many Bay Area institutions.
MICHAEL BURMAN:
1. TEN JAZZ GIANTS
2. BEBOP, HARD BOP AND COOL JAZZ
3. ELLINGTON, MONK AND MINGUS
4. MILES DAVIS
5. BIG BAND JAZZ
6. ENJOYING JAZZ
7. JAZZ AND THE POP SONG
8. JAZZ SINGERS
9. JEWS 'N JAZZ
10. DUKE ELLINGTON
11. ELLA FITZGERALD
12. SWING IS HERE, AGAIN!
13. LOUIS ARMSTRONG
British-born MICHAEL BURMAN's passion for jazz began quite by accident when, as a teenager, he misheard an announcement on BBC radio and found himself listening to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. In the 45 years since then, he's followed jazz in the clubs and concert halls all around the world, from Brussels to Buenos Aires, from Kiev to Kuala Lumpur and from Stockholm to Sydney. After three decades in the high-tech world, Michael finally had enough of yelling corrections at the radio and decided to show "how it should be done." Since then he's presented a thousand radio shows, as well as producing the award-winning "Desert Island Jazz" on KCSM-FM, where his online bio describes him as "a walking encyclopedia of jazz." Michael has lectured on jazz in his local community, for the San Mateo College Emeritus Institute and at Stanford University.
MARTIN CARCIERI -AMERICAN POLITICAL THEORY
Martin Carcieri is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, specializing in Public Law and Political Theory. A former practicing attorney, he holds a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Cal State Los Angeles, a J.D. from UC Hastings, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara. He previously taught at the University of North Florida and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his teaching interests include Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Ancient Political Theory, and American Political Theory.
JOHN CARMAN: FUNNY TV MOMENTS
John Carman has been a TV critic for 25 years, the past 16 years at
the San Francisco Chronicle. Before that, he was the TV columnist
for the Atlanta Constitution and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
TONY CASTLE -- VAUDEVILLE AND MORE
Tony Castle has been getting up making a fool of himself since he was five. He emceed his first show while in the Cub Scouts and was in his first play in 1961. After more than 30 years in educational theatre, community theatre, and a 10-year stint at Los Altos Conservatory Theatre, under the direction of Doyne Mraz, he began doing comedy on the road and in clubs in 1987. In 1992 a friend asked him to perform at a retirement community-and there Tony found his audience. Since then Tony has developed his One-Man-Vaudeville Show and now performs it 30 to 40 times per month, in all levels of retirement living. He also has a vaudeville show geared specifically to veterans and ‘Rosie-the-Riveters.' Tony hopes to continue doing his show as long as there are heroes to thank.
JOE CORSO: MUSICAL COMEDY, TONIGHT!
As a graduate student of Shakespeare studies and Musical Theater, JOE CORSO moonlighted in Long Island theater in New York. He began teaching Adult Education Musical Theater and Shakespeare classes in 1989. Since 1998, Joe has co-hosted over 145 Exploritas programs with his wife, Barbara, in California and New York. He also taught Exploritas courses on American Musical Theater, Opera and Hollywood Operetta, including classes on Verdi and Shakespeare, Shakespeare on Broadway, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart / Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Harry Warren and Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Joe was a member of the "Writing for the Musical Theater" class and workshops, New School for Social Research in New York City from 1976 to 1981, and wrote librettos (books and song lyrics) for A Shadow of Her Own and Washington: A Man and His Country, musical plays produced by the New Hyde Park Players in June 1982 and June 1976, respectively. Joe also teaches Shakespeare classes during summers in upstate New York for Exploritas and other groups.
JIM GIOVANNI: TODAY'S WORLD OF COMEDY
JIM GIOVANNI, a one-man tour-de-force of characters and impersonations, is an accomplished impressionist, standup comedian, actor, singer, songwriter, and musician. Originating from the Greater Bay Area, Jim has been headlining comedy clubs nationwide for over 15 years. Jim has an impressive list of impressions such as Peter Falk (Colombo), Bill Cosby, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and much more. He has been an opening act for Robin Williams, Merle Haggard, Ray Charles, James Brown, Crystal Gayle, Neil Sedaka, Buddy Rich and many others. His musical repertoire includes over 100 original musical compositions, and he can write songs for any situation, especially humorous.
MICHAEL GRAHAM:
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
THE POLITICS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS
MICHAEL GRAHAM grew up in Oklahoma and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Santa Barbara. He has taught at many universities including Oklahoma State University, U.C. Santa Barbara, Northwestern University and Loyola University of Chicago. He is a Full Professor in the Political Science Department at San Francisco State University. Graham's major teaching and research interests are in the fields of public law (constitutional law, the judicial process and judicial behavior with an emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court) and American political institutions (Congress and the Presidency).
JEHON GRIST:
DEAD SEA SCROLLS: AN ENDURING MYSTERY
FROM ABRAHAM TO JESUS: THE WORLD OF THE BIBLE
PHARAONIC EGYPT
WINE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
THE BIRTH OF GOD: ORIGINS OF MONOTHEISM
STORY OF MODERN ISRAEL
Jehon Grist received his Ph.D. in Near East studies at the University of California at Berkeley and has done doctorate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has done archaeological research on the biblical city of Tel Gezer at Beir El Balah in the Gaza Strip and studies in the Valley of the Queens at Luxor, Egypt. He is the assistant director of Lehr House Judaica in Berkeley, the Bay Area's largest Jewish adult education program. He has been published in archaeological journals.
DOMINIQUE JANDO -- THE ART OF COMEDY
Dominique Jando began his involvement with the performing arts more than four decades ago, in his native France, when he first stepped into a circus ring as a clown at the legendary Cirque Medrano in Paris. In 1974, as General Secretary of the Paris Cultural Center, he participated in the creation of France's first professional circus school, and of Le Cirque à l'Ancienne, which eventually became the French National Circus. In New York he was Associate Artistic Director for the Big Apple Circus for nineteen years. A circus and popular entertainment historian, Dominique has published five books and written many articles on these subjects, both in Europe and the US.
DOUGLAS KENNING: THE GOLDEN DOOR: PASSING THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND
DOUGLAS KENNING was conceived in Japan, born in California, raised in Virginia and lived in many corners of the U.S. and the globe before finding a home in Sicily. He received a Ph.D. in literature and philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been a biologist, actor, army officer, Manhattan taxi driver, academic administrator, university professor, tour guide, etc. He has published books, articles, and stage plays. He lives half the year in the Bay Area, teaching subjects related to the history of the Mediterranean, and half the year in Sicily, where he runs a small tour guide business. From a history-besotted childhood growing up across the river from Jamestown, to his university historical studies, to his world travels, to his researches into his own German and Italian ancestry at Ellis Island, to genealogy research for others as part of his tour business, to recent work on the story of Angel Island, Douglas Kenning pulls together a lifetime of interest in immigration. Check out his website at: http://www.sicily-tour.com/32.html.
KAREN LEE:
1) WINE AND FOOD PAIRING
2) WINE APPRECIATION
Karen Lee has been employed by Beringer Vineyards in St. Helena, CA for over sixteen years assisting visitors worldwide in discovering the delights of wine. With both public and trade visitors she leads them using various methods to enhance their knowledge and experience of wine and wine with food. A travel enthusiast, she visited South Africa in 2000 and Italy in 2002 with Elderhostel and was thrilled by the expertise of the instructors she encountered.
MARK LEVY:
GREAT JEWISH COMEDIANS
GOLDEN AGE OF YIDDISH THEATER
JEWS 'N JAZZ
MARK LEVY has performed and taught in the Bay Area for 25 years at synagogues, Jewish community centers, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen's Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country and abroad as a singer and lecturer who specializes in traditional Judaic folk music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, Klezmer history and theory, and general Jewish music history. He has performed for the Yeshiva University's Sephardic Dept.'s Semana Sepharad in New York, and is a cantorial soloist in California. He recently released a fourth album of Jewish music entitled Bin Ikh Mir A Shnayderl: Yiddish Work Songs, in commemoration of the 100th birthday of Workmen's Circle, a fraternal order of Jewish workers and their families.
SUSANNA LOMBARDI:
IMPRESSIONISM AND POST IMPRESSIONISM
THE ESSENTIAL EUROPEAN ART TOUR
AMERICAN ART
THE ART OF ROME
THE ESSENTIAL ITALIAN ART TOUR
DUTCH ART TOUR
ART TOUR: PARIS AND NORTHERN FRANCE
Suzanne Lombardi received her master's degree in art history from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and currently is working
on her Ph.D. in the subject at the University of San Francisco.
She has taught art history at Dominican College in San Rafael
from 1989 to the present, and was the department's acting chairperson
in 1995. She was an instructor in art history at the College of
Marin from 1986 to 1991. She also serves as an art appraiser
for the auction house of Butterfield & Butterfield.
BRIAN MALOW: TODAY'S WORLD OF COMEDY
BRIAN MALOW began his standup comedy career 15 years ago in Austin, Texas. A veteran of the comedy club circuit, he has performed in nearly 40 states and Canada, and has been featured in such diverse places as the Discovery Channel, the Austin Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Cat Fancy Magazine, TechTV, the Arts & Entertainment Network, and as a commentator on public radio. His Neil Armstrong routine was once heard aboard the space shuttle while it orbited the Earth. He recently appeared on CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Brian now lives in San Francisco where he performs locally and continues to tour nationwide. For more information and a taste of his humor, visit his website, www.sciencecomedian.com.
JOE MARCHI:
THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
NEW ERA IN MUSICALS: 1065-1980
BROADWAY GOES INTERNATIONAL: MUSICALS 1980-2000
JUDY GARLAND: A LEGENDARY STAR
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
THE JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN MUSICALS
AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE AND ITS COMIC SONGS
JOE MARCHI received his B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1952 and his M.A. from Teachers College Columbia University in 1957. He taught English and was a counselor in high school before joining the faculty of Canada College in Redwood City in 1968 where he was a professor, counselor, and Assistant Dean of Students. In 1984 he established the Center for the American Musical whose collection is now part of the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. He had a radio show for seven years and is currently hosting a bi-weekly TV show, "Regards to Broadway" for Pacifica TV. Since retirement, he speaks to many groups about musical theater and is a member of the San Francisco Theater Bay Area Critics Circle. In addition to teaching for BACL, Joe also lectures on Princess Cruises.
DAVID MEIR-LEVI:
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
HISTORY OF THE HOLY LAND
HISTORY OF MODERN ISRAEL
MODERN NEAR EASTERN HISTORY
LEBANON, PALESTINE, ISRAEL: THE 100 YEARS WAR
TAMING THE TERRORISTS
David Meir-Levi currently lives in Palo Alto, CA. He holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MA in Near Eastern Studies from Brandeis University. He taught archaeology and Near Eastern history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the University of Tel Aviv in the 60's and 70's, during which time he completed his service in the Israeli military. Upon returning to the USA, Mr. Meir-Levi has worked as a professional Jewish educator. He has lectured at Cal-Poly Institute and the Monterey Institute for International Studies as well as synagogues, churches, universities and service organizations. He has a weekly radio show, "Mid-East Media Watch" at KZSU Stanford and a monthly column on Zionist history in the Jewish Community News. David is the Director of Research and Education at the Israel Peace Initiative (IPI), a grass-roots not-for-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay area working to educate the American public and its leaders in to the history of the Arab-Israel conflict and realistic options for resolution.
KERRIN MEIS:
AMERICAN ART FROM COPLEY TO CASSATT
FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST ART
ART OF ETERNAL ROME
POST IMPRESSIONISM: VAN GOGH, CEZANNE, AND OTHER GREATS
GLORIOUS ART OF TUSCANY
THE ESSENTIAL ITALIAN ART TOUR
ART OF EGYPT
Kerrin Meis brings absolutely wonderful slide visuals to her art history programs. She received her B.A. in art history from Dominican College of San Rafael and Ph. D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in 19th century French painting. She has taught for six years at the College of Marin, focusing on courses on the art of Tuscany, Venice and Rome. She is an instructor in art history at San Francisco State University.
MAUREEN O'BRIEN:
FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST ART
POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART
FRENCH & AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM
ARTISTIC COUPLES: CREATIVITY & INTIMACY
WINE IN ART
Maureen O'Brien earned both her B.A. and her M.A. at Dominican University
in San Rafael, California. She has taught art history courses at Sonoma
State University, Dominican University and the College of Marin. Currently,
she guest lectures at Dominican University and the College of Marin.
RAND RICHARDS: SAN FRANCISCO: ECLECTIC HISTORY, UNIQUE NEIGHBORHOODS
RAND RICHARDS is a San Francisco-based historian, author and lecturer.He is a member of the California Historical Society, the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, and the San Francisco History Association. Rand has written three books: "Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide", "Historic Walks in San Francisco: 18 Trails Through the City's Past" and "Mud, Blood, and Gold: San Francisco in 1849." He has a B.A. in history from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from San Francisco State University. Rand has lived in San Francisco since 1972 except for a year spent in Paris, France where he taught international marketing at Schiller College. In 1995, he received a coveted invitation to the Gorbachev Foundation's State of the World Forum for world leaders in San Francisco where he met Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2005, Rand was the recipient of the San Francisco History Association's Oscar Lewis Award for his contributions to knowledge of San Francisco history.
JOHN ROTHMANN:
MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: 1960
MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: 1968
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
THOSE WHO LOST: AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH DEFEATED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS
PROBLEMS OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
GREAT FIRST LADIES: THE WOMEN BEHIND THE PRESIDENTS
NIXON: AN INSIDER'S VIEW
ETHNIC CONFLICT IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
JEWISH IDENTITIES - THREE COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, AMERICA & ISRAEL
JOHN ROTHMANN is a political and foreign policy consultant specializing in the United States, Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Rothmann received his B.A. and M.A. from Whittier College and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He worked on the 1968 presidential campaign staff of Richard Nixon, served as Chief of Staff to Senator Milton Marks and Field Representative for Senator Quentin Kopp in San Francisco. Mr. Rothmann has been involved in a broad variety of political campaigns on local, state and national levels, and is a frequent lecturer on American politics and the presidency. He served as project consultant on the books Jews in America and A Day in the Life of Israel. Mr. Rothmann is the co-author of the best selling book Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, published by Random House in 2008. He also hosts his own talk show on KGO radio, a local ABC affiliate.
NANCY SCHIFF: YOUR DAY IN COURT: INTERACTIVE MOCK TRIAL
NANCY SCHIFF is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Youth Development through Law, which operates the Summer Legal Fellowship Program in collaboration with the UC Berkeley School of Law. She was one of the founders of the Summer Legal Fellowship Program in 1995 while working for the Street Law Project at University of San Francisco School of Law. Nancy created the program's classroom curriculum, including a course on Race, the Supreme Court and the Constitution, a course on Law and Life Skills in the World of Work and a mock trial curriculum called, Justice in Action: Mock Trials in the Classroom. At the Street Law Project, she oversaw instructors in juvenile justice settings, middle schools and high schools. Nancy received her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1993, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Constitutional Law Quarterly. Nancy is a member of the California State Bar and her experience includes work in the area of civil rights, community legal action and employment law.
RABBI HENRY SHREIBMAN: Jewish Cultures through Time
Henry Shreibman, PhD, Rabbi, DD has been an adjunct faculty member over the last three years at Dominican University and UC Davis in Comparative Religion, History, Ethics, and Philosophy. He is the West Coast Director of Advancement and Outreach for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. He serves as Senior Research Fellow for the Levine Lent Foundation. His area of interest and specialty is comparative religion of the ancient world. Before moving to the Bay Area, he was an adjunct assistant professor of Biblical studies at Spertus College in Chicago, and a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an instructor of Biblical literature and comparative religions at Gratz College in Philadelphia. Throughout his career, Shreibman has been cited for his service as an outstanding professional and educator. In 2008 Shreibman was awarded the Teacher of the Year at Dominican University as an adjunct. He received the Executive of the Year Award of the Jewish Community Federation in 2000. He served as the Head of School of Brandeis Hillel Day School for 13 years and was on the governing board of the California Association of Independent Schools.
JOHN STANLEY:
GREAT JEWISH COMEDIANS
WALT DISNEY & HIS DYNASTY
DYNAMIC JEWISH FILM DIRECTORS
JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION
BUSBY BERKELY AND BEYOND: THE AMERICAN FILM MUSICAL
MUSIC IN THE MOVIES: HOLLYWOOD'S GREAT COMPOSERS
GOLDEN CLASSICS OF THE SILVER SCREEN
COMING TO YOU LIVE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION
FUNNY MOVIE MOMENTS
JOHN STANLEY was an entertainment editor and writer for the San Francisco
Chronicle for three decades. During that period, he interviewed thousands
of Hollywood stars from Bob Hope to Jimmy Stewart. Most of his stories
appeared in The Chronicle's Sunday Datebook magazine, the largest entertainment
guide in Northern California. He hosted KTVU-TV Channel 2's Creature Features
for six years and is the author of six editions in the Creature Features
Movie Guide series, which reviews thousands of horror and science fiction
films. He has authored the novels Bogart '48 and World War III. John also
has created hundreds of crossword puzzles for TV Guide and other magazines.
BONNIE WEISS:
1) MAKE 'EM LAUGH: COMIC SONGS FROM THEATER, FILM, & CABARET
2) LEGENDARY JEWISH COMPOSERS OF BROADWAY
3) THE JEWISH GIFT TO THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
4) THE JEWISH POETS OF BROADWAY
5) EVERYTHING'S COMING UP STEPHEN SONDHEIM
6) JUDY GARLAND & MICKEY ROONEY
7) DAZZLING DAMES OF BROADWAY
8) LEGENDARY COMPOSERS OF BROADWAY
9) SONG & DANCE MEN OF THE SILVER SCREEN
10) THE POETS OF BROADWAY
11) WITH A SONG IN HIS HEART: RICHARD RODGERS
Bonnie Weiss is a seasoned theatre educator, writer, and radio and cabaret producer. She has served as writer, producer and director for ten Bay Area cabaret shows, including producing work of Stephen Sondheim's. She holds a BA in Theater Education and a Master's Degree in counseling from New York University. She is founder and president of Musical Theater Lovers United, a club for Broadway and Hollywood music buffs. She currently teaches musical theater history and appreciation at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at SFSU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In addition, Bonnie writes for Stage Directions, a national magazine for theatre educators, and for The Sondheim Review.
WILLIAM WELLBORN:
MARVELOUS MOZART
FEMME FATALES OF OPERA
THE GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA
GREAT OPERA SINGERS
THE THREE B'S: BEETHOVEN, BACH & BRAHMS
IN THE MIST: MUSIC OF DEBUSSY & RAVEL
GREAT VIRTUOSI OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
MARIA CALLAS: THE ONE AND ONLY
LEGENDARY PIANISTS: PADEREWSKI, RACHMANINOFF AND MORE
Concert pianist, teacher and host of the radio program "Piano Legacy", William Wellborn performs and lectures throughout the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Wellborn holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the New England Conservatory and is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he teaches courses in piano, piano history and opera.
KEN WORNICK: SANTA CRUZ WINES: THE MOST FAMOUS UNKNOWN APPELATION
Before entering the vineyard and wine business, KEN WORNICK began his career with a degree in geology in 1980 from the University of the Pacific followed by geology fieldwork around the world for the Bechtel Corporation. He received his M.B.A. in 1986 from San Francisco State University, followed by work in the food industry, corporate marketing, and real estate. He has also completed numerous extension courses with the viticulture and enology departments at U.C. Davis.