Arts
The Upper School division's drama group, The Players, works with Springside School, the all-girls sister school located down the street to put on two productions per school year. A Middle School drama program for grades 7–8, also works with Springside, to mount two productions during the winter, when The Players are not in season.
The main performance space is the Albert B. Conkey Center for the Performing Arts, also called "the Rec", and formerly a stable for the Wissahickon Inn.
Boys in grades 3–8 may participate in the CHA Boychoir, which performs a concert in the winter season and a musical production in the spring. The school's men's a cappella singing group, the "Hilltones", is open to students in grades 10–12 who pass an audition. The group often sings at major school events and elsewhere. It frequently performs with Springside School's a cappella group, "Laurelei." Together, the Hilltones and Laurelei form a coed ensemble known as the Chamber Singers.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)