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Our newsletter for LIHSA families. Weekly Newsletter 3/1/19
Save These Dates!
LIHSA Scholarship Gala on Friday, May 17th (look for email next week with details about this event and the scholarship process for seniors)!
Works in Progress Dance Performance at Adelphi Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, May 15th!
You're Invited: Tuesday, March 5!
Please join us Tuesday, March 5 (8 - 9:30 am and 12 -1:30 pm) as our dance students perform as a culmination of our five-sssion dance residency with ABT, a project made possible thanks to the Nassau BOCES Education Foundation Grant.
Guest can join us for a ballet class demonstration of the ABT curriculum. In addition, students will be performing student created work and choreography by ABT guest artists Ms. Wendy Clark and Mr. Richard Toda. The choreography that will be performed is inspired by a Ethan Stiefel's dance "See the Youth Advance," which is in ABT's current repertory for this season. Please address questions and RSVP to [email protected].
LIHSA Students Perform with Norm Lewis at Adelphi Performing Arts Center
LIHSA students performed with Tony Nominee Norm Lewis on Friday, February 15, 2019 as part of his concert at Adelphi Performing Arts Center. Students arrived during the afternoon to rehearse and performed two songs with this outstanding actor as well as Adelphi students during his concert.
Lewis has been credited as having “an impressive Broadway resume” by Playbill. He was recently seen in the NBC television special, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!,” alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper and is perhaps best know for his Tony-nominated role in Porgy and Bess and The Phantom of the Opera and for making musical theatre history as the first African American actor to perform in the title role in Broadway’s long-running production of Phantom of the Opera.
Congratulations to our students - you performed beautifully! Click here to listen to one of the pieces.
Norm Lewis Master Class at LIHSA on Thursday, February 28 Norm Lewis spent the day at Long Island High School for the Arts on Thursday, February 28, talking to students and inspiring them to continue their hard work and practice to follow their dreams!
Student Showcase: 2/14 Just before February break, our students performed beautifully during a love-filled Student Showcase on Valentine's Day. Great work LIHSA!!
Ways You Can Help Make the Scholarship Gala a Success!
Next week, you'll receive an email about the May 17th Scholarship Gala and Scholarship Opportunities for our LIHSA graduating seniors. The Scholarship Gala is a glorious night of art and performances by our alumni and all money raised at the event go toward scholarships for our graduating seniors. You'll hear much more about this, but for now, here's a little information about how you can help make the Scholarship Gala a great financial success! The more money raised, the more we can provide in scholarships.
This year we will be including a former tradition of departmental raffle baskets! Each department will create their own basket based on a theme of their choosing. The departmental heads will be discussing this with their students and decide on each theme by Monday, March 3rd. Students will be asked to bring in a small dollar amount and they will discuss how the items for the basket will be purchased.
We are looking forward to a wonderful event!
LIHSA Students at Lobby Day!
Thank you to Four LIHSA students who participated in Lobby Day on February 27th- Dante Sigona (Lindenhurst). Adianna Valentine (Massapequa), Nikolette Dempsey (Levittown) and Joshua Flaum (Massapequa).
You represented LIHSA and Nassau BOCES beautifully!
Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Launches Second Year of National Contest
The National Endowment for the Arts is supporting the next generation of American songwriters. For the second year and in collaboration with the American Theatre Wing, the Arts Endowment is calling for applications from high school students to the agency’s Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. This national program is for students with a passion for writing songs that could be part of a musical theater production and the wide range of musical styles represented in contemporary musical theater including hip-hop, rock, R&B, country, jazz, and more.
Application is simple and can be completed online with a deadline of April 30, 2019 at midnight ET. Join the Twitter conversation at #IWriteMusicals.
This year’s competition follows a successful inaugural year in 2018 that featured finalists from across the country. For this second year, the Songwriting Challenge will again pair six finalist songwriters (either single songwriters or duos) with professional musical theater artists to develop the students’ original song into a Broadway-stage- ready composition.
After the application deadline of April 30, 2019, the Arts Endowment and the Wing will convene panels in different regions of the country to review all of the applications. Per last year, each panel will consist of experienced songwriters and musicians who will select one finalist or finalist duo from its region. Those finalists will be announced at the end of June 2019.
You're Invited to a Master Class with Julian Gargiulo
All LIHSA students are invited to attend a Master Class at Molloy College with pianist Julian Gargiulo on Thursday, March 7 at 3:30 pm.
He will be speaking about strategies to build a career as an independent artist.
Lincoln Center College & Career Fair
Our friends at Lincoln Center Education have asked us to share their upcoming College and Career Fair with our High School partners.
Please note there are also workshops and pre-registration so students can really get the most out of sharing a portfolio, monologue, dance, or voice and having feedback before that critical college interview or audition.
Here below is the eventbrite invitation found from the Lincoln Center Education website as well regarding the fair Sunday, March 24th. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-college-career-fair-tickets-53703334118
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