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I wrote previously about my love for The Teaching Company, an outfit that provides college-level lectures on tape and compact disc. If you’re curious about the company, but want to know more, here’s a chance to sample a free lecture from one of its best courses.
To commemorate Halloween, The Teaching Company is proud to present one of Professor Robert Greenberg’s lectures on Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. You may access this free lecture online any time between now and November 26, 2006.
Dr. Robert Greenberg calls the introduction to the fifth movement “real Halloween music.” Berlioz “wants us to see in our mind’s eye a broken graveyard, a ruined church, a stinking vapor rising from the ground, vermin scurrying around, and in the middle of this churchyard a rude pine coffin.”
The lecture is free. You may download it to your computer, burn it to a CD, or load it on a portable listening device. Please feel free to forward this … to any friends who might enjoy it. It’s free for them as well.
Disclaimer: I receive no compensation from The Teaching Company. I just love their products. (Though I’d sign up and promote an affiliate program if they had one.)
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October 23rd, 2006 at 6:17 am
Agreed! I’m a regular customer of The Teaching Company and I’m always happy with their materials. A friend of mine turned me on to them several years ago.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I just got the $99 calculus course from The Learning Company (includes two notebooks) and can testify that it is great. I am so glad I found this company and it’s products, especially since my daughter prepares to enter college in a few years.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Yes, the Teaching Company’s stuff is great. A lot of libraries purchase their courses and make them available for checkout, which is how I’ve listened to them.