I may change where we will place this document, but I want to develop a list of names in the various categories of the “Arts in New York” which we will encounter, and which I want you to add to your vocabulary. We will grow this list over the course of the semester and include names that come up in class discussion. You will be responsible for taking notes and keeping track of the salient features of these people. There will be a test at some point to check on how well you can use your developing vocabulary.
Here are some of the candidates so far:
Music:
John Cage
Jimmy Page
Seiji Ozawa
Anthony Braxton
Tyondai Braxton
Arcade Fire
Johann Straus
Leonard Bernstein
Michael Gordon
Bright Sheng
Wu Man
Mozart
DaPonte
Gilbert and Sullivan
Dance:
Merce Cunningham
The Nicholas Brothers
Trisha Brown
Twyla Tharp
Mikael Baryshnikov
Parsons Dance
Nijinsky
Diaghilev
Martha Graham
Paul Taylor
Theater/ Poetry:
Israel Horovitz
Allen Ginsberg
Paul Muldoon
Art:
Matisse
Big Bambu/Starn Brothers
Dan Colin
Maya Lin
Yoshimoto Nara
Zaha Hadid
Frank Gehry
Julian Schnabel
Barnett Newman
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Willem De Kooning
