Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Band: Beginning Players (CP201)

CP – Performing Arts Participation

For fun and real health benefits, start or restart learning a band instrument. Learn good habits and technique early. Gain eye/hand coordination, lung function improvement and brain stimulation and have a joyful experience with music and friends.

Please note that this course is for woodwinds, brass winds and percussion only.

Prerequisite: Ability to read music is highly desirable.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Dennis Cherrin, Jerry Goldman, Thom Remington

CHERRIN, DENNIS — B.S., business, University of Delaware. Retired from the city of Wilmington after 42 years of service. Played in several community bands for many years. (CP201)

GOLDMAN, JERRY — B.A., accounting, George Mason University. Retired from the mutual fund industry. Has spent a lifetime playing the trumpet in concert bands. Currently playing in both the Wilmington Community Orchestra and the Newark Symphony Orchestra. (CA333, CP201, CP275)

REMINGTON, THOM — A.B., sociology, Earlham College; M.S., clinical psychology, Oklahoma State University. Has been a musician for decades; played in bands, orchestras, brass quintets, jazz groups. (CP201)

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