 Overview
Workshops
Study Guide: Spring 2008
Reservations
Teacher Development
About DIDO and AENEAS
Jody Oberfelder Dance
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Sponsored by Consolidated Edison Company of New York
Music is the central focus of St. Luke's educational approach. Students are encouraged to explore the relationships between sound, movement, visual, and literary imagery.
Spring, 2008
- “Inside the Mind of the Composer”
Kids discover how classical composers use rhythm, words, and cultural heritage to create a piece of music. Highlights include performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Spring, 2007 - St. Luke's musicians performed a program titled "¡Bailemos!" at the Laguardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts, and the Queens Museum of Art in collaboration with The Americas Society, The performance featured commissioned choreography to Latin American music, including folk song arrangements and music by Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Messiaen.
Spring 2006 - The Orchestra of St. Luke's collaborated with FreeFall Modern Dance Company in a production of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and presented the world premiere of James Bassi’s Petrarch Dances, a commission for the Senior Chorus of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Fall 2005 - The Orchestra of St. Luke’s Arts Education Program presented a new production at the Apollo Theater and Brooklyn High School for the Arts that partnered the virtuosity of OSL musicians with the creativity of students artists in a multi-media production based on Vivaldi's, The Four Seasons
OPERA
Arlan
The Bremen Band
Baksa
Red Carnations*
Bizet
Doctor Miracle
Cohen
Ferdinand Faithful*+
(Amy Trompetter's puppet opera based on a Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. Created in collaboration with Arts at St. Ann's.)
Fiorvanti
La cantatrice villane
Handel
Deidamia
Acis and Galatea*+
(Amy Trompetter's puppet opera based on the Handel opera. Created in collaboration with Arts at St. Ann's.)
Haydn
Lo speziale (The Apothecary)*
L'infedelta delusa
Philemon & Baucis
(Puppet opera)
Mozart
Così Cosa
(A treatment of Così fan tutte, in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute.)
Offenbach
Ba-Ta-Clan
Pomme d'api (Wild Rose)
Les Bavards (The Chatterboxes)
La Bonne d'enfant (The Nanny)*
Le Violoneux (The Fiddler)
Rieti
The Pet Shop
Rossini
La scala de seta (The Silken Ladder)
Sandow
A Christmas Carol**
Stravinsky
Renard
(Opera and mime)
DANCE
Balletfore
Ballet Hispanico
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co.
Clive Thompson Dance Co.
Dancers Unlimited
Freefall Modern Dance Company
Rebecca Kelly Ballet
Limón Dance Company
Martha Graham Ensemble
Matthew Diamond Dancers
Muntu Dance Co.
Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance
The Parsons Dance Company
Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre
SUNY Purchase Dance Department
Taylor 2
The Washington Ballet
MUSIC
James Bassi
Petrarch Dances * ** +
Alexandra du Bois
Night Songs, arr. for woodwind quintet * ** +
Adolphe, Bruce
Sharéhi**
(A work for ensemble and dancers based on Native American myths; choreography by Lila York)
Ninth Street Theater
Creation of the World
(Puppetry and music)
Instinct*
(Puppetry and music)
Rossini/Respighi
La Boutique fantasque
(Mime and orchestra)
DANCE
Rebecca Kelly, choreographer
The Soldier's Tale (Stravinsky)* ** +
Léocadia--incidental music (Poulenc)* ** +
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co., choreographers
Where the Queen Stands Guard (Rieti)*+
D-Man in the Waters (Mendelssohn)*+
Matthew Diamond, choreographer
Demons in My Dreams (Ibert)*+
Twilight Concerto (Mendelssohn)*+
A Night at the Ballet (Chabrier)**+
Pascal Rioult, choreographer
Aurora + (Commissioned in part by the Orchestra of St. Luke's)
*US Premiere
**New York Premiere
+Commissioned by St. Luke's Arts Education Program
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