The Global Search for Education: The Master – Renée Fleming
“Study after study has shown that arts education develops students’ creativity and problem-solving skills, attributes that are crucial for success in almost any field.” — Renée Fleming L to R Vera Kahn, Nia Drummond, Renée Fleming, Stephan Douglas-Allen, and Lindsey Knapp Photo by Steve J. Sherman. Four members of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (the YPC), all aspiring to careers in...
More Music Please
“It’s not just about the best music curriculum in the world. The school system needs teachers like Francisco to make the curriculum work.” — Joan Tower All children should have the opportunity to experience, learn and perform choral music by great composers. Francisco J. Nunez, Artistic Director and Founder of The Young People’s Chorus of New York City, believes this. He has partnered with the...
Music and the Arts: A New Opera
“Miracle!, a new opera, is winning hearts and transforming the musical education of children.”— C. M. Rubin Photo courtesy of Christopher Hall. I know when I have experienced a miracle: getting the opportunity to meet Andrew Lloyd Weber in the 1980’s to talk about the talent of an unknown artist named Sarah Brightman who was to headline in a Lloyd Weber production called Song and Dance; sitting next...
The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….
Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 photo courtesy of Bard College. If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011. That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound of...
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