Tuesdays, Oct. 10-24, 2-4 p.m.

This course will be a brisk survey of 15 major figures in the history of music in the United States, representing genres of both classical and various types of popular music: William Billings, Stephen Foster, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Philip Sousa, Amy Beach, George M. Cohan, Florence Price, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, and Elvis Presley.