The design and implementation of a cablevision delivered course on Grand Opera is described. The unique aspect of this project is that both the viewers and the production teams experienced active learning situations. (Author)

Finds that soap operas analyzed in 1994 contain more frequent sexual incidence on an hourly average, both within the same soaps analyzed a decade earlier and even more so on two additional very popular soaps. Shows that the more frequent sex centers on physical intercourse, primarily among partners not married to anyone; and sexual activity is…

In 1993 Lake Agassiz School in North Dakota received a Knight Foundation grant so teachers and students could participate in a program to learn how to create an opera. The program instructed teachers on how students could maximize their understanding about producing an opera. The school formed a partnership with the Metropolitan Opera Guild of New…

Adapted from a paper presented at the AETA Convention (Los Angeles, Calif., 1968).

Shows how qualities of M. Sendak's works make it adaptable to the stage, using such works as "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Higglety Pigglety Pop!" as examples. (EL)

The training program of the San Francisco Opera was described. This glimpse at the behind-the-scenes demands of opera life was a good account of education at the professional level. (Editor/RK)

A rationale and specific suggestions for the limited and well-chosen use of opera to illuminate historical and cultural phenomena. A bibliography includes sources for background information on plots, music and composers. (JB)

Composer Jack Beeson discusses the distinctively American themes and music of his operas and comments on opera composition in general, matters of style, and the televising of opera. This article is part of a theme issue on opera. (SJL)

Presents over 30 activities designed to introduce elementary school children to opera. Also provides a synopsis of and student activities for three specific operas ("Hansel and Gretel,""The Mikado,""Aida") and a short article about opera star Luciano Pavarotti. (SJL)

This article reports on a five-year Australian study where pre-service primary and secondary teachers were encouraged to enhance their creativity through the development of ethnographic operatic performances. The creativity focus of this project was the important aspect of risk-taking and daring. The methodological basis for the study is…

Music education does not exist in a vacuum; it must be viewed as part of a total musical scene. Article considered the wide spectrum of musical events in Hawaii that made music education there so rich and varied. (Author/RK)

The difficulties surrounding any attempt to make a profit out of great music are discussed. (CK)

Suggestions are made for introducing opera to children when they are in kindergarten and in the lower elementary grades. Opera is a form of artistic excitement involving many elements especially well-loved by children and natural to them, including music, costumes, acting, dancing, scenery, and imagination. (RM)

In 1994 the Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned a monitoring project which assessed the frequency and representation of sexual behaviors in five daytime television soap operas. A new study sought to provide up-to-date quantitative information and to extend the previous project by examining more specifically the representation of planning for and…