Arts
Greely students have the opportunity to participate in two Theatre Arts electives and collaborate with professional affiliate artists from Portland Stage Company. In addition, Greely’s Theater Program involves 75–100 students each year in a fall musical and spring production. Students have the opportunity to develop skills in technical theatre as well as in acting, dance, and vocal performance. Greely's theatre program has been run for over twenty years by Audrey Northway, history teacher and resident of Cumberland Center.
Greely’s Vocal Music Program features a 60 voice Concert Choir and an honors Madrigal Choir of about 16 students. Students are encouraged to audition for District and All State Music Festivals, where Greely 's singers have been well represented. The Band Program includes a Concert Band as well as a Jazz Band, Jazz Combo named "So Fresh, So Clean" by Kevin Thibault('11) and Michelle Poulin('11), and Second Jazz Band. Both the Jazz Band and Combo have been well represented at the state level and have received numerous rewards for their performances. Students participate in District and All State Festivals, All New England Band Festival and Portland Youth Wind Ensemble and Orchestra. Advanced Placement Music Theory, Guitar, and Piano are also offered. The Visual Arts Program has had student art displayed in the Congressional Art Exhibit, the Maine College of Art and the Portland Museum of Art. Additionally, student artwork has been published in various local newspapers, and the school literary Magazine, Inkwell. A unique aspect of the Visual Arts Program is Honors Art, which encourages individual growth through advanced studio work and Advanced Placement Studio Art for seniors who wish to develop a portfolio that is representative of a college art program. Unfortunately, due to funding issues Honors Art is no longer a course.
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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)
“These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)