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Conductor Ernest Henry Schelling with dog aboard the S.S. Paris, May 24, 1922. The New York Philharmonic's annual "Young People's Concerts" series was founded in 1924 by conductor "Uncle" Ernest Schelling and Mary Williamson Harriman and Elizabeth "Bessie" Mitchell, co-chairs of the Philharmonic's Educational and Children's Concerts Committee. [4]
Young People's Concerts (YPCs) are performed for area third through eighth grade students every fall and winter, reaching approximately 24,000 students and their teachers each year. These 40-minute programs feature the full Wichita Symphony Orchestra and often utilize actors or dancers to illustrate the program.
He will go on to pioneer the African American "master teacher" phenomenon, in which a public school teacher contributes an "enormous amount of time to developing the skills of talented young people". Smith becomes a local legend, and his students include many of the "leading jazz and concert artists" of the mid-20th century. [323]
Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present. Today historical dances are danced as performance , for pleasure at themed balls or dance clubs, as historical reenactment , or for musicological or historical research.
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Women's Work: Making Dance in Europe Before 1800. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-22530-8. Calame, Claude (2001). Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Functions. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-1525-3. Drinker, Sophie (1995). Music and Women: The Story of Women in Their Relation ...
The root of the disconnect between the number of women on stage and the number of women in the crowd may lie partially in the male-dominated subcultures these festivals were founded out of, as Slate writer Forrest Wickman argued in 2013: “The real problem at most of these festivals lies in the alternative subcultures they celebrate.
Mauret interpreted music in dance, sometimes with a musical trio accompanying her, [4] sometimes with a symphony orchestra, as when she performed at Carnegie Hall in 1920 and 1922. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Mauret's vaudeville act involved singing, dancing, and playing violin, sometimes simultaneously.