Internships and Apprenticeships
海角视频 looks to add work in special areas of interest for students, especially those who have made significant progress towards graduation or otherwise shown readiness for such additional experiences. Over the years, students have worked at social service agencies, commercial establishments, and independent ventures鈥揺ven other schools! Each added experience is carefully selected, closely supervised, and intentionally designed. In result, students not only may earn credit for some of this work, but they also learn how productive and valued they can be in the world beyond 海角视频鈥檚 walls.
Music, the saying goes, is a universal language. At 海角视频, it鈥檚 also an exuberant social and emotional outlet. 海角视频鈥檚 Rock Band is, and has been, heralded for its thrill, warmth, fun, and musicianship.
Now, another innovative musical program has been established on our campus. 鈥淢usical Interludes,鈥 launched in the fall of 2018, is taking 海角视频 forward as a musical campus. 鈥淢usical Interludes鈥 is a series of Friday performance events from September through June by visiting professional ensembles that return throughout the school year. 鈥淭he idea is to excite our campus with top musicians from various musical genres, whom students get to know personally over time,鈥 said Jerry Pavlon-Blum, Director of Program Innovation at 海角视频. 鈥満＝鞘悠 is alive with musical students and faculty, so having a set of esteemed, friendly musicians playing regularly and interacting with us feels great.鈥
Across the years, ensembles will visit campus. Each nationally renowned and award-winning, we are fortunate to welcome such musicians as: the Cassatt String Quartet with classical and new string music; Mark Wade Trio with various forms of Jazz; Kyo Shin An Arts鈥 James Nyoraku Schlefer and friends with western music played on Japanese instruments; and, NYC鈥檚 premiere high school ensemble, Face The Music, with fellow high school students playing known and original compositions.
鈥淨uestions from 海角视频 students were on the same level of musical sophistication as any that professional students might ask about musical process, rehearsing and investigating very hard new music,鈥 said Director of Face The Music, Vasudevan Panicker. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e the same questions FTM musicians ask themselves and each other, so the conversation was rich and meaningful.鈥
Musical Interludes also incorporates other student opportunities to spend more time and form closer bonds with the musicians. Students had an opportunity to sign up for 鈥淟unch with The Artists.鈥 As Pavlon-Blum sees it, 鈥淚t s a total thrill having top artistic talent returning to 海角视频 all year long. It鈥檚 a collegiate experience to have Master Teachers hanging out, playing, and talking with students, which is exactly what we鈥檙e readying students to enjoy next.鈥 Most recently, 海角视频 was proud to launch a partial year course led by Classical Jam as visiting artists.