December 2004
The Salzburg Festival
Der Rosenkavalier in a Bordello!
By Irving Spitz
There was a startling new production of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier at the Salzburg Festival this year. READ ARTICLE
Anesthetic or Aesthetic:
Arts Education at the Crossroads
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Over the past few years at Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) I have had the great pleasure of hosting visitors from around the globe, representing over 40 countries. READ ARTICLE
November 2004
A Celebration of
Native American Culture:
Focus on Dr. Louis Ballard:
International Native American Composer
By Joan Baum, Ph.d. READ
ARTICLE
October 2004
Educating
the Imagination
by Scott-Noppe Brandon READ
ARTICLE
Strings
of Glory: Pablo Casals To Be Honored at the 92nd Street Y
by Joan Baum, Ph.D. READ
ARTICLE
September 2004
Special
to Education Update from Vienna
Richard Wagner's Tristan & Isolde
at the Vienna Staatsoper
by Irving Spitz MORE
August 2004
Product
Review
Audio Memory’s Learning
Songs
by Mitchell Levine MORE
The Beat
Goes on with
NYC Teachers & Taiko Drumming at Lincoln Center
by Michelle Accorso MORE
Heifetz,
Shaw, & A Blueprint for Teaching the Arts
by Scott Noppe-Brandon MORE
July 2004
A Love Affair With
the Piano:
Interview With Carol Montparker
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
READ
MORE
Student Art Exhibition:
Through August 31, 2004 at Yeshiva Univ. Museum
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MORE
March 2004
A
Stellar Music Lineup of Tradition & Innovation: Carnegie
Hall
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
A week later than originally planned, Carnegie Hall announced
its 2004--5 season, combining a well attended news conference
about the spectacular events that will be seen and heard
in Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall
with a memorial tribute to Carnegie’s young and dynamic
executive director, Robert J. Harth, whose untimely death
shocked the arts community. Speaker after speaker—Sanford
I. Weill, chairman of Carnegie’s Board, Ara Guzelimian,
the hall’s
artistic administrator, the illustrious conductor Pierre
Boulez, diva Marilyn Horne, and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma—spoke
warmly and admiringly of Harth’s vision and in effect
dedicated the new season to realizing his hopes and goals.
. . READ
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Falstaff at the Vienna Staatsoper: Another Triumph for Bryn
Terfel
by Irving Spitz
Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, which premiered in 1893,
when he was just a few months short of his 80th birthday, is
a summation of his creative genius. The masterful libretto
written by Arrigo Boito, himself a composer, was based largely
on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor but also incorporated
material from Henry IV. Indeed it can be said without question
that Verdi and Boito succeeded in creating one of the greatest
operatic adaptations of Shakespearean material; its only serious
rival being its predecessor, Othello. Falstaff was written
after Verdi’s second opera, the comedy Un Giorn Di Regno,
was a resounding failure. . . READ
MORE
February 2004
" And
I Teach, Too"
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
As school administrators rev up their rhetoric in preparation
for the state's annual spring offensive on the budget, Philip
Campanella, District Chairperson of Music and Art for the
Malverne Long Island School District, which comprises two
elementary schools, one middle school and one high school,
good naturedly chuckles that he has no real concern. READ
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Great Questions Stimulate Imagination
by Scott Noppe-Brandon
Several weeks ago my wife and I went to see a movie. Being
the parents of two young kids, we think of getting out to see
a movie, as compared to renting one, as a real treat. As we
left the theater we could hear comments, bits of conversation
about the film. READ
MORE
"Fame on 42nd Street" Offers
Students Paid Apprenticeship with Theatre Professionals
Five New York City high school students have been chosen as
the February participants in the Father Fame Apprenticeship
Program (FFAP), the result of a partnership between the producers
of Fame on 42nd Street, the Father Fame Foundation and the
New York City Department of Education. READ
MORE
Six Weeks Remain-Register for 'Young Artist
Talent Search'
Young performers have approximately six weeks remaining to
register for an audition in the F ourth Annual New Jersey
Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) "Young Artist Talent
Search." READ
MORE
Midtown Theatre Festival Extends Submission Deadline
Those interested in applying to the Fifth Annual Midtown International
Theatre Festival (MITF5), which will be taking place from
July 12th to August 1, 2004, have an extra month to do so
as the MITF Selection Committee has pushed back the Festival's
submission deadline...
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MORE
December 2003
Adolphe
Sax & the Saxophone
by Mr. Rodney J.Croft
Adolphe Sax, born in November 1814 in Dinant on the river
Meuse in Belgium, became a prolific inventor whose inventions
included the saxophone, patented in Paris in 1846. READ
MORE
Rockefeller U's Precollege Science Education Program for K-12
Teachers
Science teachers in public, private, or parochial schools in
the tri-state area are encouraged to apply to be a Rockefeller
University Outreach Teacher Fellow. READ
MORE
The Rossini Festival in Pesaro
by Irving Spitz
An operatic extravaganza on the Adriatic
Pesaro, a delightful city on the Adriatic coast, is the birthplace
of Gioachino Rossini. Since 1980 it has hosted an annual festival
devoted to the production of the operas of its illustrious... READ
MORE
November 2003
Claudio Abbado: A Unique Musical Personality
by Irving Spitz
A perspective from live performances, DVDs and CDs READ
MORE
Baruch Performing Arts Center
by Eric Krebs
At last we have a home for the performing arts at Baruch, which
will soon be filled with music, dance, theatre and other
related events! READ
MORE
Distance Learning at Carnegie Hall
by Michelle Accorso
The students of Glacier Valley Elementary School in Juneau,
Alaska were just finished with breakfast as the students
from PS 34 in New York City filed into the Zankel Hall theatre
in Carnegie... READ
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Donations Provide Free Music Education
for NYC Schools
Little Kids Rock, the D'Addario Foundation for the Performing
Arts and drum companies, bring free music classes to under-funded
NYC schools. The new support will provide the instruments... READ
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Fiddlefest at Carnegie
Fiddlefest, the 10th anniversary gala concert to benefit Opus
118 Harlem Center for Strings that will take place on December
2, 2003, will bring together at Carnegie Hall some of the
greatest musical talents of our time in a highly-charged
program of varied musical styles and cultures including... READ
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October 2003
30
Years of Memorable Music Toshiko Akiyoshi & All That
Jazz
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Remember the old joke? how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice,
practice, practice. Well, Toshiko Akiyoshi's been there
and now, after 30 years as a composer and conductor of the
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, she will be disbanding her
group in order to devote herself to practice, practice, practice. READ
MORE
Art is Core of Education by Scott Noppe-Brandon
Several weeks ago I heard Chancellor Klein speak at a breakfast
held at New York Law School. His speech was excellent, as
were the questions that followed. READ
MORE
Chanteuse
Barbara Lowin Offers "Everything I Love"
Love is everywhere as Barbara Lowin premieres her new show,
Everything I Love, an evening of continental cabaret,
at Danny's Skylight Room Cabaret. Featuring music director
Christopher Marlowe on piano, and directed by Scott Barnes,
Everything I Love, is subtitled Songs from Near and Far
Away. READ
MORE
September 2003
Music Education Being "Left Behind"
Local interpretation of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB)
education law is seriously affecting access to music
education for America's public school students. The law
clearly identifies the arts as a core academic subject,
explains American Music Conference Executive Director Rob
Walker. READ
MORE
"New
Watercolors" Exhibit
by Meera Thompson READ
MORE
Wolf Trap Gets Its Wings
The world premiere of Face of America 2003: A Celebration of
Flight at Wolf Trap in Virginia, is an original multi-media
and multi-disciplinary artistic adventure series that explores
the relationship between the natural stage and the creative
process. READ
MORE
August 2003
Richard Kogan, M.D.: Music, A Window to the Soul
by Pola Rosen,
Ed.D.
Listening to Dr. Richard Kogan passionately perform the technically
masterful passages of Chopin's Polonaise at an interview
at Weill Medical College of Cornell University recently,
transported me to a state of rhapsody. READ
MORE
July 2003
Imagination Conversation
by Scott Noppe-Brandon
During an Imagination Conversation, organized last fall
by Lincoln Center Institute in 11 cities across the country,
visionary thinkers from the arts and education, the sciences,
public policy, business and the humanities, explored the
role imagination plays in their personal and professional
lives. READ
MORE
June 2003
Music in the Subways
by
Michelle Accorso & Pola Rosen,
Ed.D.
It was 9:30 am, a bit past the morning crush of riders
heading to work on a typical day in New York City. At the
downtown platform of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue,
Richard Mirayes, playing acoustical guitar and singing
to the admiration of some passers-by, was impervious to
the screeching of the trains. Trained at Santa Monica College,
he started lessons at the age of 8 and by age 12 was playing
drums in bands. At age 14, he began to record and sing
in the background to Frankie Valle.
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MORE
May 2003
Teaching Choral Music
by Joan Baum, Ph.D
The heavens may be "telling the glory of God," as
Haydn declares in
"The Creation," but an inspired delivery
of that message depends upon voices on earth. READ
MORE
The
Young People's Chorus Of NY
by Stu Dunn
Education has many facets. One of the most interesting and
satisfying is the Young People's Chorus of New York (YPC). READ
MORE
Arts in Education
by Scott Noppe-Brandon
As Executive Director of Lincoln Center Institute, an arts
and education organization of Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts, I appreciate this opportunity to invite, challenge
and promote dialogue among the many readers, print and web-based,
around issues pertinent to everyone involved in education:
teachers, school leaders, artists, arts organizations, parents,
community members and policy makers of all ilks. READ
MORE
April 2003
Young
Audiences Honor Riesenberg & Ellerbee
Young Audiences/New York (YA/NY), a pioneer in creating innovative
arts education programs integrating the arts and education
for New York City public school students, will host its annual
Children's Arts Medal Benefit at the Metropolitan Pavilion
on Monday, April 7, 2003. . . . READ
MORE
New Orleans Music Festival with Louis Armstrong
New Orleans' favorite new festival is Satchmo SummerFest,
a five-day event celebrating the lasting influence of jazz
icon, international cultural ambassador and native son Louis
Armstrong. . . . READ
MORE
March 2003
Soccer Saga: Bend It Like Beckham; Holocaust Harbor: Nowhere
In Africa
by Jan Aaron
In the charming comedy, Bend It Like Beckam, an Indian girl
meets a blonde tomboy who helps her realize her dream of
playing big time soccer. As in her previous films, Bhaji
on the Beach and What's Cooking, director writer Gurinder
Chadha doesn't delve deep here, but assembles a first rate
cast to tell this story about changing social conventions. READ
MORE
City College Library to Host ?gJazz Age?h National Traveling
Exhibition
The City College Library will celebrate Black History Month
this year with the only regional showing of The Jazz Age in
Paris: 1914?|1940, a traveling exhibition organized by the
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). READ
MORE
Disney Gives Schools First-Class Treatment
When you let your students discover the wonder and joy of Disney
on Broadway, we'll make the experience unforgettable! This
school year give your students a day to remember by taking
advantage of Disney's educational program, which provides
schools with special rates for groups of 15 or more for Beauty
and the Beast, Aida and Lion King. READ
MORE
February 2003
The Zurich Opera Does It Again!
by Irving Spitz
A riveting and innovative performance of Schubert's rarely
heard opera Fierrabras. In 1822, the director of the Court
Opera Theatre in Vienna requested the 25 year-old Franz Schubert
to... READ
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THE WILD THORNBERRYS
by Jan Aaron
See it now at a local multiplex or later on video, but don?ft
miss The Wild Thornberry's Movie. The animated film version
of the popular Nickelodeon TV show, follows the adventures
of... READ
MORE
January 2003
Artists,
Innovators, and Teachers Hold "Imagination Conversation" at
Lincoln Center Institute
by Marie Holmes
Do schools suffer a lack of imagination? The audience full
of teachers and other education professionals in attendance
at a panel discussion entitled "Imagination Conversation," held
recently by the Lincoln Center Institute, likely rely upon
their own imaginative powers every day. READ
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Mark
O'Connor: From Nashville to San Francisco, Musician Extraordinaire
by
Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern have both lovingly referred
to their violins as fiddles, Mark O'Connor may have the
world's indisputable claim to the term. By all... READ
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Arts Educators Learn Tools
of the Trade
by Sybil Maimin
Art teachers from the five boroughs recently met at Fiorello
LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts
for the 22nd annual New York City Art Teachers Association
(NYCATA) conference to share talents, techniques, and perspectives
and to honor... READ
MORE
December 2002
Emperor's Club Hails Education
by Jan Aaron
Paying tribute to Education Update's seven years, the December
movie spotlights education. While the Greek and Roman classics
may be rare in today's classrooms, many modern educators
will identify with Kevin Kline's plight in Michael Hoffman?fs
The Emperor's Club... READ
MORE
Yentl, A Heart-Warming Play
for the Holidays
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
Even if you don't understand Yiddish, (headphones with simultaneous
translation are provided for those who need them) Yentl transcends
language, time and place. Its theme deals with the place of
women in a society that views them as married with children,
the old Kirchen, kuchen, und kinder READ
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November 2002
Profiles in Education:
Muriel Silberstein-Storfer: Art Educator, A Legend in Her Own
Time
by Sybil Maimin
Hands-on art is where it all starts,explains Muriel Silberstein-Storfer,
revered art educator who created the immensely popular Parent-Child
Studio Workshops at the... READ
MORE
Mary Lou Retton Starts Flip
Flop Shop
Mary Lou Retton gained international fame in the 1984 Olympic
Games by becoming the first U.S. woman to win the Gold Medal
in the all-around women's gymnastics... READ
MORE
October 2002
Music in the Schools
by Kitty Carlisle Hart
For the past 25 years, I have been trying to get music into
the regular curriculum of the public school system... READ
MORE
Vienna Choir Boys and Boys Choir of Harlem Join Together for
First American Performance in the Great Hall at City College
of New York, Thursday, October 17
On Thursday, October 17, a historic meeting of two cultures
representing five centuries of glorious music-making, will
take place in the Great Hall of The City College of New
York... READ
MORE
Whitney Museum to Host Family Day
Saturday, November 2, 2002 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Whitney
will clear an entire floor of the museum for its third annual
family day... READ
MORE
The
Little Orchestra Society’s “Lolli-Pops”
Find
New Home
Lolli-Pops, The Little Orchestra Society’s popular concerts
for children ages 3–5, will be making their new home
at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th off Lexington)
for the 2002-2003 season...
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MORE
September 2002
DVD: The Technology of the Future:
Has DVD Made the Opera House Obsolete?
by Irving Spitz
The advent of DVD (digital video discs), a medium that combines
an outstanding digital video image with superb surround sound,
has revolutionized... READ
MORE
More Les Paul
by Andrew
Schiff
Throughout history, education has usually placed emphasis on
the teacher-student relationship... READ
MORE
August 2002
Art and Education: the Links
are Critical
by Tom Kertes
According to Critical Links, a compendium of 62 research
studies and interpretive essays published by the Art Education
Partnership (AEP), arts in... READ
MORE
Music, Art and Dance in the City
Events in Central Park, Events at
Lincoln Center
READ
MORE
July 2002
Shakespeare Program at LI Elementary School
Since the 1999-2000 school year The Shubert Elementary School
has been engaged in an innovative after school theatre program.
READ
MORE
Music in Berlin
Few cities can compete with this city's musical quality and
variety.
by Irving Spitz
With three active functioning opera companies, in addition
to several symphony orchestras, including the venerable Berlin
Philharmonic, Berlin's rich choice of musical offerings can
easily overwhelm the casual visitor. READ
MORE
June 2002
Arts and Technology:
A Successful Merger in District 25, Queens
by Tom Kertes
Famous for having one of the very best art programs in the
nation, Queens Community School District 25 has always
tried to be a frontrunner of Arts in Education, said Arlene
Jordan, the Districty's Supervisor of Expressive Arts. READ
MORE
The
Lincoln Center Summer Institute: Bravo & Encore
by
Joan Baum
Sometimes itAs the little word that makes the difference. In
the matter of the Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) Arts in Education
program, the key to understanding how this particular school-arts
collaboration differs from all other programs that supplement,
augment, and enrich learning lies in the preposition oeand
as opposed to the conjunction oeand. READ
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May 2002
The Vienna State Opera
Magnificence in the pit. The orchestra says it all!
by Irving
Spitz READ
MORE
April 2002
The
Art of Bel Canto in Song & in Word, Free at Lincoln
Center READ
MORE
A Musical To Warm Your Heart:
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
by
Sybil Maimin READ
MORE
PS
99 Students Perform Opera To Commemorate Yom Hashoah READ
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Kent Tritle: Musician with
Heavenly Job Pulls Out All the Stops
by Joan Baum, Ph.D. READ
MORE
March 2002
Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Release Jazz Appreciation
Curriculum
by Marie Holmes READ
MORE
Is The Cultural Pendulum Swinging West To Chicago?
Visual delights at the Art Institute and heavenly singing at
the Lyric Opera
by Irving Spitz READ
MORE
February 2002
African
History Month Events in NYC READ
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Music Festivals in Israel:
Solace for the troubled
by Irving Spitz
Israel's musical life, always strong, is flourishing, in spite
of its economic and political troubles. One reason is that
the country has received a tremendous boost in the last two
decades by the influx of a large number of competent musicians
from the former Soviet Union. Partly as a result of the availability
of this new talent, a number of new orchestras have been set
up and older established institutions have been strengthened.
All of these orchestras give regular subscription concerts;
in addition, Israel hosts several international music festivals.
READ
MORE
January 2002
Listening Adventures for
Children at Carnegie Hall
by Marylena Mantas
The best way to experience Listening Adventures is to see
it yourself, advises Lisa Hanford Halasz, Ph.D., director
of education at Carnegie Hall. READ
MORE
December 2001
The
Maestro & the Little
Orchestra: Dino Anagnost in Top Form
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
It?fs as difficult for organizations as it is for individuals
to think business as usual after September 11th, but the
fact is that everyone has been adversely affected by the
tragedy and by the continuing terrorism that has made New
York City for some a place of fear. READ
MORE
November 2001
Degas Comes To Life At The Joffrey Ballet School
by Marylena
Mantas
Some admirers of Degas' impressionist painting The Dance
Class argue that the realism of the image allows viewers
to sense that they have walked into the painting. Yet,
a few miles south of the Metropolitan Museum of Art the
experience of walking into The Dance Class transcends
that of oil on canvas. READ
MORE
October 2001
The Washington Opera
by Irving Spitz
Although in its current season the Washington Opera will
be giving 80 performances of eight operas, the beginnings
of this impressive company were humble. In fact, the first
formal performance of the company in 1957 took place in
an auditorium in one of Washington's universities, and
rehearsals had to be held in New York. READ
MORE
Education
Update Writer, Sculptor Honored with 1st Prize READ
MORE
September 2001
The 92nd Street Y
A home for learning for over 127 years, the 92nd Street Y
is a great place for kids and teens to learn something
new while having fun and making new friends. There is something
for every child at the Y.
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MORE
SI Educators Discover the
Familiar at Ellis Island
by Kahdeidra Martin and Katarzyna
Kozanecka
Some 30 Staten Island school officials became threads in our
nation's fabric recently by exploring the Ellis Island Tapestry,
an interactive curriculum that teaches history and social studies
through drama. Led by Kathleen Gaffney, co-founder and president
of Artsgenesis, Inc. who designed the Tapestry, participants
used their imaginations to leap back in time, becoming the
daughters, husbands and disabled grandmothers of families who
migrated to the United States on the busiest day in Ellis Island
history: April 17, 1907. On this day, 11,745 people were processed
for citizenship. READ
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Discovering Good Teaching
at Juilliard
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
There may be no more reliable assessment of a teacher than
the observation of a teacher by another who becomes a student.
This past spring I, a longtime college teacher of English,
took an evening music course at The Juilliard School with
Peiwen Chao, and I was able to recognize and admire her methods. READ
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Vanguard Crafts
Vanguard Crafts, Inc. has been selling fun in the form of the
arts and crafts for more than 40 years. We carry a broad
range of basic supplies such as crayons, paints, glues, brushes,
beads, papers, and much, much more. Several hundred pre-packed
kits take the guesswork out of creating that perfect craft
and are ideal for use with small or large groups such as
scouts, camps, and classrooms. Our kits all come with detailed
instructions and cover a wide range of age groups and abilities. READ
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August 2001
New Ways of Appreciating Art
by Tom Kertes
If you haven't seen a large group of school superintendents
all in one room swaying, rowing an imaginary boat, and fighting
the one-eyed monster Cyclops with an umbrella, well you haven't
lived a full life. READ
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Puccini's Next-to-Last Opera
Scores High Grades
in London
by Irvin Spitz
Special to Education Update, London
In its early days, the English National Opera (ENO) performed
at the Sadler's Wells theater in London. In 1968 it moved
to its present venue, the Coliseum. Regardless of its location,
ENO remains one of Britain's great cultural icons READ
MORE
July
2001
Creative
Education Creates Miracles
by Tom Kertes
In most schools, wiggly, gyrating students are not looked
upon too kindly in class by their teachers. But in at least
one program in the city, the teacher actually leads the twisting. READ
MORE
June 2001
Opera Quiz Kid
by Sarah Elzas
Opera has become cool, at least at Long Island City High
School (LICHS). Jessica Agudelo, a junior, gets up early
to attend opera classes at school twice a week at. She
was recently selected as a Quiz Kid panelist out of 150
students across the country in a competition where they
answered questions about Verdi's Aida, Bizet's Carmen
and Mozart's The Magic Flute. READ
MORE
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Could Its Troubles Be
Over?
by Irving Spitz
London, England? Over the past few years, the Royal Opera House
(ROH) has been plagued by debt, scandal and bad publicity.
But the appointment of the latest American Arts Administrator,
Michael Kaiser, as chief executive in 1998? the third such
appointment within one year? seemed to put the ROH back on
track. READ
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May 2001
A Conversation with the
Lyric's Joan Kretschmer
by Irving Spitz
Joan Thomson Kretschmer is the Lyric Chamber Music Society's
founder, Artistic Director and pianist. Founded in 1997,
the Lyric had its first concert in1998 and continues to be
dedicated to providing musicians an opportunity to perform
chamber music READ
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Grants For Teachers Who Use American Music
For the fourth year, the National Music Foundation will award
cash grants of up to one thousand dollars to teachers of
any subject, in any grade K-12, and in any academic setting,
who create lesson plans using American music. READ
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An Operatic Jewel on Lake Zurich
by Irving Spitz
Opera buffs please take note. To hear great opera, go to Zurich.
The Zurich Opera may not be the first company that springs
to mind when thinking of great opera, but in fact it can
hold its own with the most prestigious houses in the world. READ
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Music Therapy for People
with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease
Music may benefit the four million Americans suffering from
Alzheimer's and could potentially help many of the one million
Americans with Parkinson's disease, according to several studies
that have looked at music therapy's effect on memory and other
mental activities. One study, conducted at the University of
California, Irvine, found that people with Alzheimer's who
listened to a Mozart sonata greatly improved their scores on
memory tests. READ
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School
of Music & Art
Receives Grant
The Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
of Music & Art and Performing Arts has received a five-year,
$1.125 million grant under the Talented Students in the Arts
Initiative (TSAI), a new collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation and the Surdna Foundation. READ
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Violence Prevention through Theater
After the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999,
Adina Taubman, an actress and playwright, began a series
of interviews with members of the Columbine community. READ
MORE
April 2001
Funding for Arts Education
The Center for Arts Education (CAE) has received a $12 million
grant from the Annenberg Foundation and a $2.5 million commitment
from the New York City Board of Education to extend the restoration
of the arts in the City?fs public schools. READ
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Young Artists Speak Out
High School students from all over the city who had won an
artwork competition asking them to address oppression and
discrimination had their work displayed at an exhibit, Young
Artists Speak Out, at the New York Historical Society in
March. READ
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Students Perform on Historic Pianos
Twelve students from Interlochen Arts Academy, a fine arts
boarding high school in Michigan, recently received a unique
opportunity to perform on a collection of historical pianos
that are part of a Smithsonian Institution exhibition celebrating
the piano's 300th anniversary. READ
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