NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Scott Freiman asks his students to “lend me your ears” and he takes them on a trip through Strawberry Fields, down Penny Lane and into Abbey Road.
 Using contemporary computers, vintage video and antique audio, Freiman hopes to teach Yale students some history along with music production techniques and, above all, “inspire their creativity.”
The class, which spans two hours over 13 Wednesday afternoons, is “The Beatles in the Studio.”
It comes as the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's first released recording. That was Oct. 5, 1962, in England when Love Me Do and its flip side of P.S. I Love You came out on 45 rpm vinyl. Two years later, it found its way onto U.S. shores.
Freiman, a 51-year-old composer, engineer and music producer who graduated from Yale in 1984 with a B.S. in music and computer science, landed the classroom gig following an hour-long multimedia presentation for school officials and students in January.
His plans are to take his students on a “Magical Mystery Tour” of the Beatles, tracing their origins by looking at who influenced them during their musical evolution in songwriting and production techniques, then showing who they influenced before ending with their break-up and initial solo albums.
“So its pretty comprehensive,” Freiman said during an interview prior to his Oct. 3 class. “There's a lot of material to get through and far too little time.”
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