TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
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All breakfasts, and most other meals.
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Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
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Performances/Activities: as stated.
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Museum entry fees and tours.
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Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
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All breakfasts, and most other meals.
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Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
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Performances/Activities: as stated.
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Museum entry fees and tours.
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Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
-
All breakfasts, and most other meals.
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Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
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Performances/Activities: as stated.
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Museum entry fees and tours.
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Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Excluded in Price
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Airfare from the departure point to Europe and the return flight.
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Personal purchases and pampering.
Excluded in Price
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Airfare from the departure point to Europe and the return flight.
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Personal purchases and pampering.
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
MUSIC and HUMOR
BROUGHT TO YOU BY JOE MARCHIO
inspired by Tom Phillips
Mondays, at 10:00 am, EDT
October 6 - December 8, 2025
Registration Status: OPEN
Tour Cost: $180 for the series of 10.
Tom Phillips came up with a few suggestions for Joe to fill out his musical zoom series. Music and Humor landed on top of the heap. This series will make you chuckle and hopefully realize that you don't have to sit completely upright and uptight in your chair as you listen to "classical" music. Musicians (both perfomrers and composers) also have a sense of humor, or at least some of them; they are people, too.
So join the series, sit back, and listen for a good, hardy laugh. If you have any difficulty at least smiling, Joe will guide you to the funny spots.
Sesson 1: Musical Comedians
Minstrels and Troubadours
A Musical Joke/ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Victor Borge
Session 2: Pomp and Strange Circumstances
A Grand, Grand Overture/Malcolm Arnold
Farewell Symphony, Surprise Symphony, Joke Quartet/Franz Joseph Haydn
Florence Foster Jenkins
Session 3: Musical Animals 1
El Grillo/Josquin des Prez
The Hen and Frogs Concerto/Georg Philipp Telemann
Israel in Egypt – Frogs and Flies/George Frederick Handel
The Flight of the Bumblebee/Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Danny Kaye
Session 4: Musical Animals 2
The Monk and His Cat/Samuel Barber
The Cat and the Mouse/Aaron Copland
I Bought Me a Cat/arr. by Aaron Copland
The Carnival of Animals/Camille Saint-Saëns
Turkey Trot/Leonard Bernstein
Animal Crackers/Eric Whitacre
Session 5: Operetta Part 1
Dudley Moore
Penzance and Mikado/Gilbert and Sullivan
King’s Singers
Session 6: Operetta Part 2
Orpheus in the Underworld/Jacques Offenbach
Die Fledermaus/Johann Strauss II
Rainer Hersch
Session 7: Opera Buffa
Scherzo
Die Zauberflöte “Magic Flute”/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Humoresque
Session 8: Oh! "Aint it a grand and glorious noise!"
Circus Band/Charles Ives
PDQ Bach
The Cat Concerto/Franz Liszt
Session 9: Quirky Keyboards
Typewriter Polka/Leroy Anderson
Virgil Fox
Liberace
Suite for Toy Piano/John Cage
Session 10: Holiday Favorites
Jim Henson and the Muppets
The Musicological Twelve Days of Christmas/Craig Courtney
Overture to a Merry Christmas/Robert Wendell and Mozart!
YOUR HOSTS
Joe Marchio
Instructor & Guide
Joe Marchio is a graduate of the College of Wooster, where he earned both a Bachelor’s degree in organ performance and a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies. He earned a Master of Divinity degree at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting at the Boston Conservatory. Joe became Music Director of the Chatham Chorale in 2010. He is also the Pastor and Director of Music of the First Congregational Church of Chatham.
Joan Hill
Owner, Host, & Director
Years ago, it was suggested to Joan that she might offer an art program, and she jumped at the chance of a lifetime. Bringing together all of her life's passions, the development and administration of Artful Journeys is an exhilarating process for Joan.
Joan was born and raised in the apple country of the Hudson River Valley in New York; her father was a gentle, very tolerant, educated land surveyor, and her mother was the efficient business administrator and home engineer. The youngest of four children, Joan was encouraged to pursue anything she wanted, but also to do her best. Sometimes that was very difficult, especially succeeding three very accomplished siblings.
ARMCHAIR JOURNEY COST
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Each session will cost $20 or listen to the entire series of 10 for $180.
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PayPal is preferred; however, we do take checks
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You will receive an email with the Zoom link to the lecture with instructions on how to login within 24 hours of presentation
To register for a session or the series, please click below:
A Zoom link will be provided by email within 24 hours of each meeting.