music

Teachers at Work: Making Eyes Shine

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Is classical music dead? Or does everyone love classical music? Does it matter what we say? What does it mean to play the piano with one buttock? Is anyone actually tone deaf? What is success? Can your life be transformed? Here is a master teacher – conductor Benjamin Zander – and his TEDtalks answers to … Read more

Dancing and Drumming

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First there was an intensive and interdisciplinary study of Ghana and West Africa including geography, science, history, literature and art. Then there was the division-wide theater presentation based on folktales. The trip to the Bronx Zoo was the end point of a close animal and ecology study where each student became an expert. And then … Read more