You are invited to a one-session, online seminar to get a sense of how we do things here. A confirmation email with details will be sent to registrants upon registration and again a few days prior to the session. Use the main registration form.
March
Early Irish Poetry - St. Patrick's Day Celebration March 17, 7:30 pm ET
April
Shakespeare, Reading the Sonnets Aloud
April 20, 3:30 pm ET
Free seminars are listed at the end of the registration form.
For Our Moment seminars are close reading, close listening, or close looking learning experiences for those who might not have time for the longer pathways, but who would enjoy the benefits that come from slowing down, together.
TBA
Listeners' Studio seminars focus on works of music. Participants listen to recordings and examine sheet music; and discuss the interpretative choices of performers or conductors.
April
Listener's Studio: Bach, St. Cantatas (6 sessions) Tuesdays, April 14-May 19 12:00-1:15 pm ET
CrossCurrents seminars include combinations of texts, music, and/or visual arts connected historically, thematically, or explicitly. These seminars apply the slow-reading approach to see connections among the various representations of ideas in writing, music, and artwork.
April
Crosscurrents: Giotto, Dante and Trecento Music
Fridays, 12:00-1:30 pm ET | April 10-June 22, 2026
Short Seminars (see main program list)
April
Bach Listening Lab: 6 Early Cantatas (6 sessions)
Tuesdays 12:00-1:30 pm ET | April 14-May 19
Intricate, Imperfect, Various Things - E.E. Cummings' Is 5 (5 sessions) Tuesdays, 7:30-8:45 pm ET | April 28-May 26, 2026
May
Shakespeare, Reading the Sonnets Aloud (6 sessions)
Mondays, 3:00-4:30 pm ET | May 4-June 15, 2026
Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism: the Deliverance from Error (6 sessions) Wednesdays 12:00-1:30 ET | May 20-June 24