Arts
Music
Beginning in Lower School, students play chimes, handbells, guitars, harp and piano, with instrumental ensembles like jazz band and firenze available in the Upper School. In 2011 Middle School Chorus received a rating of 95.6/100 for their performance at Music in the Parks, taking home the First Place Trophy in the Treble Choir division as well as the Overall Performance trophy.
Theater
The 2011 performance of Rumors produced several Cappies nominations, and the Cappie supporting actress role award went to a Baldwin student for Urinetown. The Upper School Maskers Club supports the theater through ushering and advertising.
Visual Art
Off the stage, Baldwin girls explore ceramics, computer graphics, photography, jewelry making, painting and sculpture. Their works are showcased throughout the school, including in the art gallery.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
—Patricia Mainardi (b. 1942)
“Women hock their jewels and their husbands’ insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)