Great Comedy Classics with Ernest Liotti, Peab '80

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Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: Great Comedy Classics

Instructor: Ernest Liotti, Peab '80 

Brought to you by Odyssey  

August 26, 2025 - September 30, 2025 (6 Sessions) 

Tuesday,  6:00PM ET - 7:30PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom

 

Course Description: Great Comedy Classics: Step into Hollywood’s golden age of laughter in this lively survey of classic American comedy. Explore the timeless brilliance of silent film legends like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and dive into the sharp wit and rapid-fire dialogue of directors like Preston Sturges. Through film clips and discussion, we’ll examine how these pioneers shaped cinematic comedy and why their work still resonates—and delights—audiences today. 

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ABOUT Ernest Liotti, Peab '80
Peabody Conservatory Faculty and Alumni

Performer, educator, and lecturer Ernest Liotti pursues an active career addressing a wide range of topics including classical music, opera, great musicians of the past, film and industrial design. A member of the Conservatory faculty of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Liotti has taught a variety of classes in both the Voice and Piano departments. He was a long-standing lecturer for the Roadscholar Program at Peabody and has lectured extensively throughout the metropolitan Baltimore/Washington area. In demand as a speaker, Liotti has traveled across the United States and Europe addressing such organizations as Brandies University, Friends of Tanglewood, and Spoleto USA on subjects such as Bernstein’s music for the theatre, the operas of Giancarlo Menotti, and the career of Arturo Toscanini.

Since 2001, Liotti has been a regular lecturer for the Alumni Association of the Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2013, he was featured on a lecture cruise of the Baltic Sea whose principal speakers were Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa. As a performer Liotti is the founding Director of the DaCamera Singers, a sixteen voiced chamber chorus that presented not only the standard repertoire but also promoted new works by regional composers.

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 Event Date
Starts:
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
6:00pm EDT

Ends:
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
7:30pm EDT

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