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CHERRY BLOSSOMS GALORE!
Back in the BBG You don’t know just what you’ll see, boy! Back in the BB Back in the BB Back in the BBG (with apologies to The Beatles:) It’s peek cherry blossom blooming season this weekend at the Brooklyn … Continue reading
PRE-K 2 GOES ITS OWN UNUSUAL WAY – a surprise diversion in the ongoing saga of Mr. Danny’s Most Sung Song
Another year and another group of Pre-K students are learning “We’re Singing” AKA Mr. Danny’s Most Sung Song – this would be the third yearly installment in what is evidently and unexpectedly turning into a continuing series (the first … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged brooklyn, Children's School, crawl, education, four-year olds, freestyle, gallop, Mister Danny, Most Sung Song, Pre-K, teaching artist, We're Singing
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The Lovers of Grand Army Plaza
The photo above is one of my personal favorites I have taken during my random photo taking walks around New York City. It is of the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. The reason I am posting this … Continue reading
Posted in Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Bailey Fountain, brooklyn, Felicity, Grand Army Plaza, lamb, Lion, lovers, Spring, winter, Wisdom, World Trade Center
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Holiday Flee Market in the Classic Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
This post features holiday music from the damn bestest Lesbian holiday album ever: Venus Envy’s 1990’s cult classic “I’ll be a Homo for Christmas” The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is the most famous building in Brooklyn. Completed in 1929 it … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Musicabilia, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Carols, Flee Market, folk, Fort Greene, Holiday, lesbian, marble floor, Mecca of Dentistry, mosaic, One Hanson Place, Park Slope, parody, photography, Skylight, Smorgasburg, Tower, vault, Venus Envy, Williamsburgh Savings Bank
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Subway Motion Animation
Look at the video below. This sight thrills me every time I am on a Brooklyn subway train heading towards the Manhattan bridge. I think of it as Subway Motion Animation: The video clip above was taken … Continue reading
NfaC Repost and Update – Mister Danny and His Most Sung Song
Today I repost one of my first and still most popular “teaching artist” posts, featuring the Pre-K standard “We’re Singing” (well, standard in my Pre-K curriculum). This year’s Pre-K classes at the Children’s School have taken to the tune with … Continue reading
OSCAR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED – so, what happened with those hoped for bragging rights, Danny?
So the Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, and as every year I had the TV on, munching my breakfast, and followed along as they were read out (see the full list of nominees at the bottom of this … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Academy Awards, Best Song, Boy and the World, Bridge of Spies, brooklyn, Carol, Ex Machina, I'll See You in my Dreams, Lenny Abrahamson, Mad Max: Fury Road, Manta Ray, Oscars, Racing Extinction, Ridley Scott, Room, Todd Haynes
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FIRST GRADE OPERAS: It’s MAGIC time, times three!
It’s a whole new season of First Grade Operas at the Brooklyn Children’s School. The three first grade classes have all begun the process of creating their own original opera, or musical, with performances set for the end of March. … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged brooklyn, children, Children's School, democracy, first grade, magic, mind control, money, musical, Opera, original, teaching, teaching artist, teleport, theme, thesis sentence, vote
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THE SONG OF JOB 9:11 – 14 year anniversary of 9/11/2001
The Song of Job 9:11 – Chapter Ten: HOPE – concert video, Sep 9, 2011 The Song of Job 9:11 – Chapter Ten: HOPE – concert audio, Sep 11, 2011 Above are recordings of the finale of the tenth anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged 9/11, 9/11/2001, Book of Job, brooklyn, composing, concert, Ground Zero, Hope, New York City, Old Testament, oratorio, September 11, The Song of Job 9:11, Twin Towers, writing
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Mister Danny and His Most Sung Song
I am a teaching artist. Which means that I freelance as a visiting music and drama teacher to conduct arts education projects in the classroom for limited time periods, usually 8-12 weeks, in schools all across the New York metropolitan … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged arts, brooklyn, children, composer, education, Kindergarten, music, Pre-K, school, singing, teaching, The Beatles, The Pajama Game, The Sound of Music
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