The filmmakers are from Monterey and shot these films on location in the Salinas Valley. Dr. Marez' introduction will prod you to look at this film in a different light. Passport and Ticket Holders. An abbreviated version of the regular walking tour with a special surprise-a tour of the house where John Steinbeck was born and raised. You just might, as Valley Guild volunteers show you around this beautifully restored Victorian that is now operated as a luncheon restaurant.
Space is extremely limited.
Actual songs and words arranged in musical ways will be discussed and illustrated from Steinbeck's canon. Visit the ranch where John spent much his boyhood and was the setting for The Red Pony. In the company of Steinbeck historians Dick Hayman and Carol Robles, hear readings from The Red Pony and venture into the world of both Steinbeck's life and work. The session will consider issues that arise in the transformation of a previously published written text into that form of musical theater we call opera. The example of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men will be illustrated by the performance of excerpts from the opera and will be compared with other such transformations.