SUMMER SESSION 2020 COURSE OFFERINGS
DATES: July 7 – August 1
Tuesdays through Saturdays
Instructor: Juan Pablo Horcasitas
An overview of his life, the three compositional periods, and the style and main works that define each one.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructors: Jon Price
This class will focus on the music and art from around the turn of the 20th century, the emergence of blues and ragtime and the visual artists of the time.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Konrad Kamm
This class will highlight some of the most notorious composers of the 1900s and the music that earned them overwhelming negative attention. Each week we will focus on one composer and uncover the importance of their work and the influences they have had on music thereafter. We will try to answer the question of whether or not their respect should be rewarded or their distrust well-deserved. We will challenge our musical thoughts to expose the hidden genius behind some of the most controversial ideas and practices in modern music.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Charlotte Surkin
An introduction to the history of how this exciting art form got started—from 1716 in local taverns to our current Broadway shows from Hamilton to Mean Girls, and from earlier time periods. Depending on interest, students may perform a song that relates to each era.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Moderated by Michelle Trovato and Charlotte Surkin
Welcome to the world of opera. Each week’s session will introduce a different guest who will share real-life experience from the world of opera. Learn about the challenges of putting an opera on its feet from Metropolitan Opera stage director Sarah Meyers. Explore the world of Verdi and his operas with someone who has made a film about the composer. Hear from an opera singer how he shapes his character and develops his role in opera.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructors: Juan Pablo Horcasitas
This class will explore the style, influences and main works from this unique art movement. We will also discuss the strong connection that exists between literature, painting and music. Works to be studied: Monet’s “The Rouen Cathedral Series”, Debussy’s “Le Cathédrale Engloutie,” and Gustav Adolf Bécquer’s “The Miserere”
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Jennifer Apsel
Looking at select piano repertoire from J.S. Bach to Chopin and beyond, we will attempt to heighten our awareness and sensitivity of dissonance and consonance, and ultimately our expression of this fundamental and powerful element of music.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Chris Petz
This class is designed to help the student compose music of any kind using any instrument or instruments. This means any genre or style that contains the three main elements of music: rhythm, melody and harmony. We will examine basic structures of music chosen by the class with the aid of the instructor. Each student will then create their own compositions based on the knowledge gained by analysis and listening.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Jon Price
New concepts for beginner/intermediate bass guitar players. Work on those special skills that provide the backbone for any band.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Svetlana Avezbakiyeva
Learn the basics of braille music code in an abbreviated version of our semester-long course geared for both users who are blind and those interested in teaching braille music. You will need to request the Primer for Braille Music (available in braille and print through the National Library Service. Register early to ensure that you can acquire materials before the course begins. This course will include an additional charge for materials provided by the instructor.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Jon Price
An approach to ear training with a focus on internalizing information regarding intervals, and then reproducing that pitch/interval on one’s respective instrument. Additional benefits include identifying chords, chord progressions, and studying and learning a piece of music by ear without needing a reference instrument nearby.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Instructor: Michelle Trovato
A monologue workshop focused on creating a character through a one-minute monologue, based on Uta Hagen’s Nine Questions, an in-depth 14-page character worksheet. Doing this work on monologues can help young singers work on deepening their musical understanding when singing a song or aria as well. Each student will research a character and memorize/present a 1-minute monologue by the end of the course.
Tuition fee: $80 for current FMDG Music School students, $100 for non-FMDG Music School students
Tuition fee: four 45-minute lessons $160 for current FMDG Music School students, $200 for non-FMDG Music School students
Special rate for those who take multiple group classes:
Two classes for $150 for FMDG Music School students
Two classes for $160 for non-FMDG Music School students
One individual lesson and one class for $200 for FMDG Music School students
Instructors: Leslie Jones; Lisa Johnson, Michelle Trovato, Guest Lecturers and Panelists
A seminar-style course team-taught for young people who are contemplating a career in music, who wish to remain active in the arts as young professionals, and those who are just beginning their careers in music. The course will meet twice per week with one session devoted to a workshop-style subject area and the second weekly session will be held as a panel discussion among music professionals on the very same weekly topic.
Topics covered will be selected from the following:
Appropriate for ages 12 to 25 years of age
The Workshop takes place twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Tuition fee: $100 for current FMDG Music School students, $125 for non-FMDG Music School students
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The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School
Phone: (315) 842 4489
Email: music@fmdgmusicschool.org
On-site programs: 92NY, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128
Mailing address: 2130 Broadway, Suite 1904, New York, NY, 10023
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School is a registered 501(c)(3).
EIN #83-2582279