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:
“A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“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)