Robert Julien

For the last 10 years, Bob Julien has been presenting a weekly music class for the residents of Noble Horizons and for five years he led weekly short story readings. (For eight years previously he recorded books for the blind in a program sponsored by the Library of Congress in Litchfield CT.)

He occasionally presents art videos at Noble as well.

His varied background includes eight years with the Metropolitan Opera Guild before earning an M.A. and a Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literature at Columbia University's Faculty of Philosophy then teaching at the college level.

He has already led four semester-long courses at TLC:two courses
on "Music inspired by Shakespeare", followed by "Music inspired by Mythology", followed by Baroque music. He looks forward to presenting ten weeks on "Opera from Baroque to Britten" this coming semester.