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Between the two wars
Weekend of Chamber Music and Monticello students collaborate in an educational recreation of history
MONTICELLO, NY — Last weekend was the culmination of an educational project created by a collaboration of the Monticello school district and the Weekend of Chamber Music. (See last week’s issue for details). In performance and art, students explored the cultural expressions that form an essential part of history between the two world wars of the 20th century.
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| Students in Jay Brooks’ painting and drawing classes researched how familiar local places looked between the wars. This rendering is of the famous Kaplan’s restaurant that long graced Broadway was done by Shane Deitchman.
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| Students in Brenda Sylawski’s art class explored major art movements of the time period including Constructivism, which Monticello High School artist Samantha Arriaga replicated in her poster whose theme is censorship. The colors of red and black were also generic to Constructivism. Students had to choose a key theme of the era and apply it to a current issue. Arriaga chose power.
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| Marina Lombardi played violin in “Sweet Polly Oliver,” a piece by Benjamin Britten that featured the singing of Juliana D’Abbraccio. Lombardi also performed in a dramatic vignette from Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera.”
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| Dancers from Monticello High School’s Fine Arts Academy take a curtain call following their performance of a Dance Reflection piece choreographed by teacher Kelly Keesler, left, set to the music of “American Anthem,” by Norah Jones.
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| Weekend of Chamber Music’s Judith Pearce discusses the background of “Abenddkonzert,” by Paul Hindemith before its performance. Clarinetist Alan Blustine listens. Blustine worked with the tenth grade social studies class of Lisa Pacht to help students understand the relationship between the events they were studying and the arts.
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