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P&P CULT CRITIC MOVIE AWARD
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” received the Outstanding Achievement Award for its Original Film Score from the Cult Critic Movie Awards
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News
Tagged Awards, Critic, Cult, film, movie, musicabre, original, score, soundtrack, The Pit and the Pendulum
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3 GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS FOR P&P
Golden Horse International Film Festival gives three awards to “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” Best Experimental Short Film Best Actor Best Original Score
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Awards, best, Best Actor, Experimental, festival, film, Golden Horse, International, musicabre, original, score, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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OPERA KIDS – the movie
“Opera Kids” is a documentary about the Creating Original Opera program that I had taught and also helped develop with my colleagues at the Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department since 1990. It was directed by Max Sturm, who participated in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, The Teaching Artist
Tagged 5th grade, Acting, Brooklyn Children's School, composing, Covid 19, Creating Original Opera, documentary, film, Max Sturm, Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department, Opera, Opera Kids, original, staging, teaching artist, trailer, writing
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No First Grade Operas – for now
Thanks for nothing, COVID19 On Friday I received the following email from one of the first grade teachers at the Brooklyn Children’s School: Dear Danny, The first grade operas have to be postponed. The DOE and our … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn Children's School, Chameleon, closure, COVID19, dragon, Earth, first grade, Moon, New York City, Opera, original, school, tiger
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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
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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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
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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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