Mary McDowell Friends School - Revealing Brilliance

Category: Arts

Studying Cuban Rhythms in Havana

By Taylor Watson, Upper School Head Music Teacher – August 2018 Last summer I was generously awarded a MMFS Parents Association Grant to study Cuban rhythms in Havana, Cuba. The goal was not…
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Middle School Chorus Brings Home Silver

For the second year in a row, the Middle School Chamber Chorus performed at the New York State School Music Association Festival (NYSSMA). NYSSMA is a professional organization that evaluates…
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Exploring Empathy through Theater

Students in the upper school’s Foundations of Theater class have been working on a rehearsal technique called rasaboxes. Rasaboxes explore eight key emotions that are described in The Natyasastra, an…
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