Fiorello H Laguardia High School of Music Art

Specialized high schoolhouse in New York City

Fiorello H. LaGuardia Loftier Schoolhouse of Music, Art and Performing Arts
The exterior of LaGuardia, one block west of Lincoln Center
Accost
100 Amsterdam Avenue Upper West Side, New York , New York 10023 United States
Coordinates	40°46′27″Northward 73°59′08″West  /  xl.77417°Northward 73.98556°W  / xl.77417; -73.98556 Coordinates: 40°46′27″N 73°59′08″Due west  /  40.77417°N 73.98556°Due west  / forty.77417; -73.98556
Information
Type	Selective school
Established	1961; 61 years ago  (1961)
School commune	ten
NCES School ID	360007804458[4]
Principal	Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos[1] [two] [3]
Educational activity staff	141.08 (FTE) (2017–18)[4]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,819 (2017–18)[4]
Educatee to instructor ratio	xix.98:1 (2017–eighteen)[four]
Color(s)	Carmine White
Website	www.laguardiahs.org

Fiorello H. LaGuardia Loftier School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, oft referred to simply as LaGuardia, is a public magnet high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located nearly Lincoln Centre in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York Metropolis, in the U.Southward. country of New York. Located at 100 Amsterdam Avenue between West 64th and 65th Streets, the school is operated by the New York City Section of Instruction, and resulted from the merger of the High Schoolhouse of Music & Art and the School of Performing Arts. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well every bit a pursuit of higher teaching.

The school is the only one amongst the 9 specialized high schools in New York City that receives special funding from the New York Country legislature through the Hecht-Calandra Human action, as well as the but specialized high schoolhouse that does not use the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) as admissions criteria.^[five]

The school in 2019–2020 has 3,011^[6] students and 164 staff members, with a instructor–student ratio of i:xx.

History [edit]

The High School of Music & Art was founded past Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1936. He wanted to establish a public schoolhouse in which students could hone their talents in music, art and the performing arts. In 1948, a similar institution – the High Schoolhouse of Performing Arts – was created in an effort to harness students' talents in trip the light fantastic toe. The schools merged on paper in 1961^[seven] and were to be combined in one edifice. Nevertheless, this took many years.

It was not until 1984 that they moved to a new concrete edifice, designed by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano and adjacent to Lincoln Eye . The Board of education honored Mayor LaGuardia posthumously past naming the new building after him. Prior to the building's completion in 1985,^[eight] Music & Fine art – colloquially known as "The Castle on the Loma" – was located in Manhattan at Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become part of Metropolis College of New York's South Campus; the edifice is domicile to A. Philip Randolph Campus High School. Performing Arts was located in Midtown Manhattan on Westward 46th Street. Mayor La Guardia regarded Music & Fine art as the "most hopeful accomplishment" of his long administration as mayor.^[9]

Alumni from LaGuardia and its two legacy schools, High School of Music and Art and School of Performing Arts,^[10] are active in supporting the students and the schoolhouse through scholarships and support for special programs, schoolhouse events, and reunions held at the schoolhouse and throughout the earth. The school's alumni organisation has a full-time executive director and offices at the school.^[11] It functions as an contained charitable organization organized under the laws of New York. The prestigious Fame School has built up a reputation as the #ane ranked performing arts loftier school in NYC.

Academic curriculum [edit]

Students at LaGuardia take a full bookish course load while participating in conservatory-manner arts concentration. Each student majors in ane studio, choosing from either Dance, Drama, Fine art, Song Music, Instrumental Music, or Technical Theater.

Many graduates from LaGuardia go along their studies in universities or conservatories after graduation.^[12]

Students tin can have honors classes by selection or programming. LaGuardia as well offers several Advanced Placement courses.

Studio curriculum [edit]

The schoolhouse presents an annual musical. The Musical Theater class, an constituent school-wide course, is offered through the collaboration of faculty members from Music, Drama, Dance, and the Tech Theater Studios, culminating in a major musical theater performance. Recent productions have included Gypsy, Les Misérables, Westward Side Story, Pilus, Ragtime, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, Grease, In the Heights, Beauty and the Creature, The Sound of Music", and Cinderella.^[13]

Art [edit]

For the showtime two years of pedagogy, the fine art department stresses traditional artistic skills and bailiwick. Students work on cartoon from ascertainment, learning color theory, and the principles of design.^[14] Following this, students elect vocationally oriented courses in the fine arts such as Digital Media, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, and Photography. In their senior year, art majors can submit portfolios to the department for consideration for a place in the senior galleries, which are a series of shows organized and constructed by the called students and a educatee curator.

Music [edit]

The music department features 2 symphony orchestras, 5 choirs, iv string ensembles, two concert bands, two jazz bands, a bedchamber grouping, a gospel choir, a show choir, and an opera company with a pit orchestra. Vocal and instrumental students written report in a solarium curriculum featuring iii hours of music per day, including performing ensembles, electives (in areas such as music technology and composition), music theory and history. The department has done featured work with composers and organizations such as Eric Whitacre, Josh Groban, Arturo O'Farrill, Béla Fleck and NPR's Radiolab.

Instrumental programs [edit]

Every student in the instrumental department must join a performing ensemble likewise as a class specific to their instrument's musicological classification (one of three winds ensembles, three string orchestras or a percussion corp). After completing their first twelvemonth with an ensemble, students may fulfill the remainder of performance credits with electives.

• The LaGuardia Philharmonia ("Junior Orchestra") was formed with the goal of exposing students to more complex and professional repertoire.
• The LaGuardia Symphony ("Senior") Orchestra accepts students through a rigorous secondary audition process. It is ane of LaGuardia's best known ensembles.
• Junior Jazz teaches elementary jazz operation and theory.
• Senior Jazz is the school'due south premier, honor-winning jazz ring.
• Chamber Ensemble
• Inferior Ring was formed as an alternative to the orchestral plan, exposing air current, brass and percussion students to repertoire that features their instruments.
• Symphonic Band
• Pit Orchestra, a program consisting of two distinct ensembles that perform with the annual musical and opera. In 2014, the musical pit orchestra worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In The Heights to help workshop their ain production of the musical.^[xv]

Vocal programs [edit]

Every student in the vocal department must perform with Elementary Chorus inside their first or second yr. At the secondary level, students must perform with either Mixed Chorus or Girls' Chorus. Third-year vocal music majors must complete an additional year of chorus, performing either with Mixed Chorus, Women'south Chorus, or Senior Chorus.

• Women'south Chorus is an all-female group that is open to third- and quaternary-year voice students. It is not audition-based.
• Senior Chorus is a competitive constituent grade open to juniors and seniors. The ensemble is 1 of LaGuardia's almost well known and has been routinely selected to perform for the American Choral Directors Association.
• Gospel Chorus is an elective open to all students.
• Show Choir is also an elective course that accepts students from any studio.
• Opera Workshop is open to third- and quaternary-year vocal majors through audition, where operatic works are analyzed and studied. The opera of choice is performed halfway through the bound semester. In 2011, the Broadway musical team of Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin announced a musical with LaGuardia's Opera Workshop and Pit Orchestra. The musical, entitled Life of the Party, is a comedy based on Stalinist moving picture musicals of the Soviet Union. The piece of work ran from May iii through May vi, 2012.
• Solo Voice teaches operatic solos through private instruction.

Musicology programs [edit]

Every music student must pass an uncomplicated sight singing form as well as a year of music theory and history in social club to graduate.

• The LaGuardia New Music Ensemble focuses on pop music limerick and theory. Students are able to etch their ain original songs and perform them during school productions. The ensemble grants access through auditions, in which a portfolio is required.
• Music Engineering science is a class in music production, electronic music history and computer theory.
• Composition is taught through private instruction, currently with composer Jim Pugliese.

Drama [edit]

The Drama studio at LaGuardia is highly competitive. The students practice not get a take chances to perform publicly until their junior year with musical theater, or senior twelvemonth during the Leap Drama Festival. The exceptions for drama students' ability to perform are the annual schoolhouse musical, in which any second-, third-, or quaternary-year educatee may audition for any number of roles, and the Rise Stars talent testify,^[sixteen] where any grouping of students tin can prepare an act.

There are several guest teachers in the drama department, who are featured particularly in the inferior and senior courses. Jake Gyllenhaal,^[17] Alan Rickman and Darren Criss have visited to speak with students, and recent graduates Timothée Chalamet^[18] and Ansel Elgort have as well returned. Rap goddess Nicki Minaj is also a drama department graduate. The faculty members of the department include AP Sandy Faison, Harry Shifman, Lee Lobenhoffer and Robert Krausz. Actress Ally Sheedy teaches at the school full fourth dimension.^[19]

Dance [edit]

The Dance Department is based strictly on pre-solarium-based preparation in the field of trip the light fantastic toe. Students spend the beginning two years training solely in classical ballet and the combined mod techniques of Graham and Horton. In their junior year they are given the opportunity to take musical theater and tap classes. Beyond that, the junior class performs for the first time junior year. The 2nd semester of junior year they have a choreography class in which they create pieces of their own to perform. Senior yr, the dancers accept career direction classes to back up their success and accept part in two performances: the Winter Showcase and the Graduation Dance Concert of the jump.^{[ citation needed ]}

Alumni of the program include Desmond Richardson and Suzanne Vega.^{[ citation needed ]}

Technical theater [edit]

The Technical Theater Studio is a professional training program that provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to pursue a career in technical theater. Concepts and aesthetics are taught using contemporary educational activity methods that utilize state-of-the-art equipment. Professionally produced events in the concert hall, thrust-phase theater, and black-box theater provide students with applied easily-on piece of work experiences.^{[ citation needed ]}

Transportation access [edit]

The New York Urban center Subway's 66th Street–Lincoln Centre (i train) and 59th Street–Columbus Circle (1​, A, ​B, ​C, and ​D trains) stations are located nearby.^[20] Additionally, New York City Bus'due south M5, M7, M11, M20, M66 and M104 routes finish well-nigh LaGuardia High Schoolhouse.^[21] Students residing more than than a certain distance from the school are provided total-fare or half-fare student MetroCards for public transportation.

Sports [edit]

LaGuardia offers 21 different sports on the Varsity level. It is one of viii schools in New York City which nonetheless runs the Gymnastics Program. LaGuardia competes with the Public School Athletic League (PSAL). Fall flavour sports include bowling, pond, volleyball, cross country (girls'), fencing (co-ed), soccer, and cross country (boys'). Wintertime season sports include basketball, gymnastics, and indoor track (boys' and girls'). In the spring, the school offers baseball game, outdoor rails, tennis, volleyball (boys'), handball, softball and tennis (girls').^[22]

Representation in other media [edit]

The 1980 dramatic moving picture Fame was based on student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School. A idiot box serial based on the film, Fame, was launched in 1982. It was adjusted once again as a stage musical, which premiered in 1988. A loose remake of the moving picture was released in 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Drugs and mental health issues [edit]

The utilize of illegal substances is very prevalent in Laguardia Loftier Schoolhouse. The school has documented issues with heavy drugs such every bit opioids and other pharmaceuticals.^[23] Mental Health is also a very big issue at the school. The school day at Laguardia is the longest in the city, with most students in schoolhouse from 8:00 AM to 4:09 PM.^[24]This paired with homework and practicing talents besides as other obligations has taken a toll on the mental health of the pupil body, especially in recent years. This is axiomatic in the NYCDOE's school snapshot surveys which reveal that 81% of students say they experienced stress while learning at Laguardia High School.^[25]The school's response to the mental well-being of its students is as well questionable. In the 2019-2020 NYCDOE surveys, but 46% of students reported that their teachers back up them when they're upset.^[26]

Run across also [edit]

• List of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
• Professional person Children'south Schoolhouse
• Professional Performing Arts Schoolhouse
• School of American Ballet
• Special Music School

References [edit]

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2. ^ Brody, Lesile (July 8, 2019). "' Fame' Loftier School in New York City Names Interim Master". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved July 8, 2019.
3. ^ Orlen, Vivian (July 8, 2019). "Important Declaration from Superintendent Vivian Orlen - News and Announcements". Fiorello H. Laguardia High School Of Music & Art and Performing Arts . Retrieved July viii, 2019 – via www.laguardiahs.org.
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8. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot & Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (fifth ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 358. ISBN978-0-19538-386-seven.
9. ^ Steigman, Benjamin: Accent on Talent — New York'southward Loftier School of Music & Art Wayne State University Press, 1984 ISBN 0-686-87975-9
10. ^ mick andreano. "SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS ALUMNI". Retrieved March 10, 2016.
11. ^ "Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia". Retrieved March 10, 2016.
12. ^ "S. 485 Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts". Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved March v, 2011.
13. ^ "LaGuardia Arts". Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved November two, 2012.
14. ^ "LaGuardia Arts–Art Studio". Archived from the original on February 10, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
15. ^ Sperling, Benjamin. "Lin-Manuel Miranda Workshop at LaGuardia HS". In The Heights Rehearsal.
16. ^ "RISING STARS 2021: Behind THE MASK". LaGuardia Loftier Schoolhouse. Retrieved Dec 25, 2021.
17. ^ "Jake Gyllenhaal on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
18. ^ "Timothée Chalamet Fans on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved Dec 25, 2021.
19. ^ "Marry Sheedy - Interim Passenger vehicle". My Learning Springboard inc. Apr 22, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
20. ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Upper West Side / Central Park" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2018. Retrieved October i, 2018.
21. ^ "Manhattan Autobus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Say-so. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
22. ^ "LaGuardia Arts–Student Life". Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
23. ^ Chapman, Ben. "New York City's opioid crunch seeps into public schools as drug counselors see uptick in educatee addicts". nydailynews.com . Retrieved February 5, 2022.
24. ^ "Bell Schedules". laguardiahspa.membershiptoolkit.com . Retrieved Feb five, 2022.
25. ^ "New York Urban center Department of Education". tools.nycenet.edu . Retrieved February 5, 2022.
26. ^ "School Quality Guide - Online Edition - New York City Department of Education". tools.nycenet.edu . Retrieved Feb 5, 2022.

External links [edit]

• Official website

grahamabightly.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_H._LaGuardia_High_School