- Exploring the music of Richard Strauss
Course start date: Tue 16 Sep 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katy HamiltonFrom the heady waltzes of Der Rosenkavalier to the awe-inspiring opening of Also sprach Zarathrustra, come and delve into the life and works of the brilliant – and controversial – composer and conductor, Richard Strauss.
Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00 - Listening to the 20th century 1Course start date: Tue 16 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward HendersonUsing Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' as a guide, we'll investigate art music in the first half of the 20th century. This module covers Mahler’s last symphonies, fin de siècle Paris and the Ballet Russes, and Expressionism and the Second Viennese School. Break week: 28 October 2025.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00 - Victorian Visions Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julian Birkett“It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.”
How did the Victorians see the world? They lived through one of the most dramatic periods in our history – and their literature reflects that. Victorian Visions looks at a wide variety of themes in Victorian culture: from the city to the home, from dreams to nightmares, from faith to doubt, from moralism to decadence, from ideology to empire.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Medieval London Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mike BerlinThis course explores the forces that shaped London between the coming of the Normans and the age of
the Tudors. - Calligraphy and illumination Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emiko HashiguchiLearn how to write beautifully with a dip pen and design and produce a piece of work with illuminated letters using colour and gold leaf. All levels.Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00 - The introduction to art historyCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Do you enjoy looking at art but want to understand it more deeply? This introduction to art history course will help you build confidence in interpreting art by exploring topics such as beauty, the role of the artist, gender, the art market, and global art history—giving you fresh insight into what you see in galleries and museums.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00 - The Altarpiece in Northern European ArtCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberThe Northern Renaissance altarpiece is a thing of beauty: exquisitely painted in oil, full of rich, sumptuous decorative details, a broad, vivid and brilliant colour range, artistically innovative, conventional and experimental, distinctive and complex. Come and find out more about these works of art on this ten-week online course, where we cover some of the highlight art made by highlight artists such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Listening to the 20th century 2Course start date: Tue 13 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward HendersonUsing Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise as a guide this course investigates art music in the second half of the twentieth century. This module covers the music of the Cold War culture wars, American experimental music, Minimalism and the use of technology. Break week: 17th February 2026.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00 - The Golden Age of Russian LiteratureCourse start date: Tue 13 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julian BirkettExplore and discuss the work of key writers from 19th century Russian literature, including Chekhov's The Kiss, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Introduction to the V&ACourse start date: Tue 20 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Julia MusgraveExplore the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum. We visit different galleries each week looking at the decorative arts, paintings and the transfer of design ideas across the centuries.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Music in the Weimar republic Course start date: Tue 21 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katy HomdenDiscover the colourful landscape of music in Germany between the wars. Break week: 26 May 26.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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