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Classroom Presentation: Orchestra – Leo Kitajima
International Program alumni/Winter Residency artists offer a lecture-demonstration on Schumann’s Piano Quintet. The presentation will combine a structural analysis of the quintet and a discussion of the rehearsal process—interpreting the composer’s expressive markings, conceiving of a unified ensemble sound, etc.—and culminate in a reading of one movement.
Classroom Presentation: Shakespeare – Wilson Taylor
In music as in literature, how a composer or author says something can be just as important as what they say. Nowhere is this more evident than in Shakespeare’s plays; by his ingenious use of rhyme, meter, and form, the Bard infuses his words with multiple layers of meaning. Referencing Shakespeare’s use of verse vs. prose in Julius Caesar, Music@Menlo’s Winter Residency artists will explore the integration of folk and classical idioms in chamber music, introducing students to works by Czech composer Antonín Dvorák and American jazz icon Wynton Marsalis.
Classroom Presentation: 8th Grade English – Becki Phillips
Complementing Menlo School’s 8th-grade English students’ poetry unit, Music@Menlo’s Winter Residency artists will explore the relationship between sound and emotion. Students will encounter music by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and others—definitive voices of the Romantic generation whose love of the written word informed their musical language in significant ways.
Classroom Presentation: Orchestra (string players) – Leo Kitajima
Winter Residency artists will join Menlo School orchestra students in a side-by-side rehearsal.
Classroom Presentation: AP Theory – Karen Linford
Classroom Presentation: 8th Grade English – Becki Phillips
Classroom Presentation: Humanities – Becky Gertmenian
Music@Menlo Audience Engagement Director Patrick Castillo will lead a discussion on the rise of the Second Viennese School, illustrated by the Winter Residency artists with works by Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern.
Performance: Middle School Assembly
Classroom Presentation: Philosophy – Jack Bowen
Artists, audiences, critics and others have long debated the true nature of art. Complementing Menlo School Philosophy students’ consideration of arguments made by Leo Tolstoy and Jesse Helms as to what does and does not constitute art, Music@Menlo Winter Residency artists introduce music by the composers of the Second Viennese School—Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern—whose innovations upended centuries of Western musical tradition. These composers continue to confound audiences today, a century hence. Given their brash defiance of the conventions of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, students will be invited to ponder whether or not these composers’ work qualifies as “music.”
7:00 p.m: Benefit Concert and Reception in Stent Family Hall, in support of Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute.