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Tag Archives: Opera
The Knight Marries the Prince
A Kindergarten Original Blesses a Quaker Wedding Friday morning I heard a wedding song I realized I would have to sing that night at an actual wedding. Class K-1 at the Brooklyn Children’s School was the third kindergarten … Continue reading
THE DAY I MURDERED MY HUSBAND – Tell-Tale Shoot Diary #3
Welcome back to the “Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” film shoot diary, and the day I murdered my husband. Repeatedly. Take after take after take. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” centers on a “very very dreadfully … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged assault, Austin Lepri, black and white, chamber piece, cinematography, Ed Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, eye, flashback, Jason Chua, movie, murder, musicabre, musical, Opera, pas a deux, set, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, vulture
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FIRST GRADE ALIENS RIDE PEOPLE’S HEADS!
Another Year, Another Silly First Grade Opera! Actually, another three first grade operas at the Brooklyn Children’s School, created, written, composed and performed by first graders themselves, under the direction of their teachers and their teaching artist Mister Danny. … Continue reading
Posted in Live! On Stage, The Teaching Artist
Tagged aliens, brooklyn, car wash, Children's School, dog, first grade, Opera, pet, silly, slobber, teaching artist
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TELL-TALE REVEAL!
So what is the big new deal with “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“? OK! Aright! I know you’ve been on tenterhooks! The suspense has been killing you! But only figuratively. Not literally, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Live! On Stage, Musicabilia
Tagged Cinema, Edgar Allan Poe, eye, horror, JahRockn, movie, musicabre, musical, nervous, Opera, recording studio, short film, stone dead, The Tell-Tale Heart, vulture
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TROLL AFFECTION!
How a genre and boundary bursting Swedish movie brought back to mind a certain LGBTQ friendly First Grade Opera Tune I just saw the movie “Border”, Sweden’s entry for this year’s Foreign Film Oscar, and let me say, right … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Academy Award, Affection, Border, Brooklyn Children's School, first grade, Foreign Film, make up, nomination, Opera, Oscar, Sweden, Troll, wizard
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Sensual Statues in the Streets of Paris
Nude statues are all over Paris. I don’t know if statistically there are more nude statues there than in other European cultural capitals, or if the nude statues of Paris are particularly more sensual than elsewhere, or if it is … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged angel, Arts and Metiers, Bacchus, bastille, Beethoven, church, classical music, Fountain of Medici, jardin, Like a Prayer, Louvre, Luxembourg, Madonna, nudes, Opera, Paris, pieta, Romance, sculpture, Seine, sensual, sensual classics, Tuileries
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TELL-TALE SIGN…
Something’s coming… Something murderous, mad, musical… A pale blue eye… Cellos signing; moaning; screaming… His hideous heart… It’s all returning… But not the way it was… It will take on a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged cello, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, madness, murder, music, musicabre, musical, Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart
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Another Year, Another Trio of First Grade Operas.
Three first grade operas have performed in their classrooms in front of an audience of parents, grandparents and loved ones. In three consecutive days 1-3’s “Diamond Kids”, 1-2’s “The Alicorns” and 1-1’s “Imagine” regaled audiences with stories, dialog, lyrics and … Continue reading
K-2 Presents: THE WIZARD’S REVENGE (featuring the Garbage-Throwing Machine)
The Kindergarten K-2 class of the Brooklyn’s Children’s School just presented their original fairy tale opera, for which the children created the story, the lyrics and the melodies: Once upon a time there was a king, a princess and a … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged fairy tale, garbage, garbage-throwing, Kindergarten, machine, Opera, original, Princess, revenge, stealing, teaching artist, wizard
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NafC Classic: 5 X FUN with LUDWIG’S 5th
Let’s have some fun with Beethoven! Specifically the 1st movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, easily the most famous piece of classical music in the world. The indelible Duh Duh Duh DAH motif that opens and shapes the movement may … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, The Teaching Artist
Tagged 4th grade, A Fifth of Beethoven, Beethoven, classical music, comedy, Darren Chris, ELO, Glee, Opera, Peter Schickele, Robin Thicke, sampling, Walter Murphy
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AXS INTERVIEW
The on-line magazine AXS has published an interview with yours truly. The questions delve into the evolution of Speakeasy as well as musical influences in my childhood and advice to aspiring playwrights and composers. The article is excerpted below: Interview … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage, Notes in the News, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, Berlin, Danny Ashkenasi, Dolly Sisters, Gene Malin, Gladys Bentley, jack hilton cunningham, Jacqui Sutton, Julian Eltinge, Lewis Carroll, LGBT, musical, Opera, Prohibition, Queer, Speakeasy, Theater for the New City, Wonderland
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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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WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY when he makes his Kindergarten debut? – The Fairy Tale Opera 3
I’ve discussed how certain characters are most likely to make the cut when the Kindergartners vote on their three chosen Fairy Tale Opera protagonists/antagonists. Dragons are extremely popular, being regularly featured, and populating two of the three Fairy Tale Operas … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged addiction, fairy tale, Kindergarten, king, magic potion, musical, Opera, Princess, Sleepwalking, soup, teaching artist, The Fox, Ylvis
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