Music for Listeners
Classical Music Courses in Tucson, Arizona!
Music for Listeners is a series of short courses for high school students and adults presenting the works of composers from a listening enjoyment rather than a music theory perspective.
Each course presents the life and music of a composer chronologically and is taught by lifelong classical music enthusiast David Oesper.
Current/Upcoming
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): Six 90-minute sessions beginning January 10, 2026:
Past
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Seven 90-minute sessions available upon request
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Seven 90-minute sessions available upon request
Gustav Holst (1874-1934): Six 90-minute sessions available upon request
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Seven 90-minute sessions available upon request
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Seven 90-minute sessions available upon request
Future
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Summer 2026
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Winter 2027
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999): Summer 2027
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Winter 2028
Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Summer 2028
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Winter 2029
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Summer 2029
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Winter 2030
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Summer 2030
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): Winter 2031
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Summer 2031
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978): Winter 2032
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): Summer 2032
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Winter 2033
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Summer 2033
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887): Winter 2034
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Summer 2034
Josef Suk (1874-1935): Winter 2035
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Summer 2035
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Winter 2036
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Summer 2036
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Winter 2037
Frederick Delius (1862-1934): Summer 2037
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987): Winter 2038
If you are interested in attending or hosting any of these courses, or for more information, please contact the instructor here.