JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The New Israel Opera
From humble beginnings, opera in Israel is now on an international level
By Dr. Irving Spitz
The history of opera in Israel began in 1923 with a performance of La Traviata by a company founded by the Russian conductor, Mordechai Golinkin....READ MORE
The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra
One of the country's finest cultural assets
By Dr. Irving Spitz
In the mid 1930's, the famous Polish born violinist, Bronislaw Huberman, sensing the looming danger facing Jews in Europe, conceived the idea of recruiting musicians willing to immigrate to Palestine to found an orchestra....READ MORE
Afro-Latin Dance ‘Tour of Schools’ Thrills Students
By Judith Aquino
It was 10 a.m. at a school assembly and teen girls screamed his name as he swiveled his hips and winked at the audience....READ MORE
JUNE 2009
The Arts in Education
Exclusive Interview with Yoko Ono
By Dr. Pola Rosen
Education Update (EU): In your poignant introduction to the John Lennon Anthology, you mention the great love that you and John shared. In what way do you think your talent in the arts helped him?
Yoko Ono (YO): Just the fact that we were there together, made us realize things we would otherwise not realize....READ MORE
Jacques d’Amboise, Preeminent Dancer and Founder, National Dance Institute
By Lisa K. Winkler
“I don’t have to do anything but enjoy,” National Dance Institute (NDI) founder and ballet dancer Jacques d’Amboise says. But d’Amboise has done plenty....READ MORE
An Interview
with the Juilliard String Quartet
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Making its first appearance with its new member Nick Eanet (Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) recently, The Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) was led in animated conversation by noted lecturer, writer and broadcast commentator Nancy Shear....READ MORE
Making Room
for the Arts
By Richard Kessler
Is the state law that created mayoral control of New York City public schools is set to expire in June, state policymakers, parents, and everyone in between is discussing what governance structure is most appropriate for New York City’s education system and its over one million students....READ MORE
Paula Nadelstern:
Unique Quilter Exhibit at
American Folk Art Museum
Paula Nadelstern’s exhibit is not to be missed....READ MORE
fEBRUARY 2008
A Force for British Style Band Music at King’s Point
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Captain Kenneth R. Force, Director of Music and leader for 37 years of the Regimental Band of the United States Merchant Marine Academy is a force of human nature....MORE
Building Custom Guitars
Your students know what an electric guitar is—some probably play them—but do they know how a guitar is made?...MORE
OCTOBER 2005
Profile:
Richard Kessler
At the Center of The Center
for Arts Education
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though the name of this nine-year young arts advocacy organization doesn’t
yet win awards for recognition, its new 46-year old executive director, with
his lively, down-home enthusiasm, seems ideally positioned to “trumpet” the
mission of The Center for Arts Education...
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MORE
Profile:
Hollis Headrick
The Weill-Tempered Arts Initiative
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Amazing but inevitable, perhaps, and certainly understandable that Hollis Headrick,
the director of the Weill Music Institute (WMI) at Carnegie Hall, named for
benefactor Sanford I. Weill, is pursuing a career started at 16 when his music
teacher at Central High in Cape Girardeau, Missouri gave him the go ahead to
assemble musicians for an R & B and Rock band... READ
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The
Time is Right for Arts in Education
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Education has always been and will always be a hot-button issue. Questions
regarding local, state, and federal influence or control will always be debated,
as will the curriculum: what and how students should be taught. READ
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SEPTEMBER 2005
The
Salzburg Festival: La Traviata Sets New Gold Standard
By Irving Spitz, Music Editor
Special from Salzberg: Verdi’s La Traviata
is performed so often that it’s a challenge to present
something new. Producer Willy Decker and director Wolfgang
Gussmann achieved this in a dramatically coherent and visually
compelling way. READ
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AUGUST 2005
The Incredible Maxine Greene
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Over 30 years ago, Lincoln Center Institute, through its founder Mark Schubart,
began a critical re-examination of its performing arts program for young people. READ
MORE
JULY 2005
The
Berlin Philharmonic Back in Salzburg for Annual Festival
Masterful Music Making
By
Irving Spitz
The Berlin Philharmonic made
its annual appearance in Salzburg with an exciting program
comprising three concerts and one opera. The emphasis
this year was on the British composer, Benjamin Britten.
His opera, Peter Grimes, is a gloomy saga about the proud,
self-willed fisherman. READ
MORE
jUNE 2005
“Dancing Through Barriers” at
Dance Theater of Harlem: An Interview with Keith Saunders
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Saunders, who went to Harvard when he was 18, got interested in Afro-American
and modern jazz dance, after taking just one course, and was eventually accepted
at DTH, where he rose through the ranks. READ
MORE
Executive
Director of the Lincoln Center Institute Shares Insights
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
For this column, I thought I’d stray a litle bit from my usual concerns,
namely the state of arts in education. Just a little bit, mind you: I want
to talk about a favorite television program and, after all, being aware of
the impact a powerful medium can have is part of my work.
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MAY 2005
Folksbiene Presents World-Class
Klezmer Group Brave Old World
At the heart of “Song
of the Lodz Ghetto” (“Duz gezang fin geto Lodzh”)
are rare songs performed in the streets of the Lodz Ghetto
between 1940 and 1944, part of an oral legacy that was
preserved by ethnomusicologist Gila Flam in the late 1980’s. READ
MORE
Guarneri Quartet: Michael
Tree Continues to Branch Out Performing and Teaching
By Joan Baum Ph.D
It’s relatively rare that
famous musical artists credit their audiences and students
for helping to educate them, but then Michael Tree seems
to be an unusually humble and gracious musician. READ
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Theater
Reviews
Bad Tots Plot: Schockheaded Peter
By Jan Aaron
In Shockheaded Peter at the Little Shubert badly behaved Victorian tots come
to nasty ends. READ
MORE
Wild Sendak Show at the
Jewish Museum
By Jan Aaron
Original drawings, happy, sad and introspective are on display as are preliminary
sketches, artwork for posters, theater and opera sets, and costumes created
from Sendak designs. READ
MORE
Violinist Forges New Paths
in Music
By Joan Baum, Ph.D
The group will strive for “broad appeal and varied programming,” for
example, and audiences will see and hear a standard chamber orchestra, in addition
to fine instrumentalists playing solo and in quartet. READ
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MARCH 2005
Previewing the 2005-2006
Season at Carnegie Hall
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Addressing a packed house at Weill Recital Hall, one of Carnegie Hall’s
three main stages, along with Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall, Klaus Jacobs,
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Acting Executive Director... READ
MORE
An Intrepid Group Plays
the Mandolin
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
The New York Mandolin Orchestra (NYMO), now in its 80th year, and
said to be the oldest known continuously performing Mandolin Orchestra in the
country, has a long and well revered reputation that is being maintained by
its newest concertmaster... READ
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JANUARY 2005
The Making of a First
Documentary
By Joe Charap & Josh
Koplewicz
The small crowd, braving the cold winds of late
October East Hampton, gazed at our industry passes then
up at our young scruffy faces, their eyes glazed with a
mix of envy and begrudged respect. We, two former New York
City prep-schoolers (Friends and Dalton), had gotten our
first film, a short-documentary entitled Pigeonmen, into
the Hamptons International Film Festival this October. READ
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The
Salzburg Festival Part 2
Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt:
Let’s Hear This Forgotten Masterpiece More Often!
By Irving Spitz
One of the memorable highlights at the recent Salzburg summer Festival was a
performance of Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City),
an opera composed by Eric Wolfgang Korngold. READ
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