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Syllabus


This seminar will introduce to you to the Arts movements in New York City. Our mission is to utilize visual and performing arts to explore our understanding of the world, and be able to incorporate them into our everyday lives.

We will explore historical events and artistic representation that shaped the New York art scene. We will try to understand why New York has become a cultural haven to certain American cultural movements. Our outline topics include “Historical Perspective”, “American Culture”, “Established and Fringe Art”, and “Form and Content”.

Our classroom will have three locations: Online, in room HN C103 and at the events we will attend. Be sure to either go online and check your email or Announcement feed, or keep in touch with your peers to make sure that you know where the next leg of our adventure is taking place. Sometimes we will take advantage of last minute tickets to a show or a lecture.

Our departure point is West Side Story; you will see the musical and will be sure to check the source list that is posted with the syllabi. Scan through the reading before class, come prepared. You are encouraged to view and or discuss it with your peers; however, it’s your choice to get the most out of the course, and your prerogative to what depth your knowledge will be enhanced.

Expect your work to be presented online for discussion and comments by others. Our goal is to have an educational site, please use good judgment. Fiona Lee, our Instructional Technology Fellow, will aid us in creating a virtual class where you could post and interact with your peers, and in executing your presentations. Her office hours in the Honors College at Hunter are Mondays, 1-4, and Thursdays, 10-1.

Your grade will consist of participation in the events (30%), contribution to online discussions (30%), and a semester project (40%): a documentary film, an art work, or simply a PowerPoint presentation on one of the topics, to be presented in class. This project could be a collaborative effort of your team.

Click here to download a Word .docx copy of the course schedule. You can also check our Google Calendar for the course schedule. Don’t forget to check Assignments for more detailed instructions for your weekly assignments. You should also check the Bibliography to see the required texts for this class (password: weinroth100).

Date Time Location Topic Reading/Viewing/Listening
9/3 10:10AM HN C 103 Historical Perspective: West side and East What is Art?
9/10 10:30AM City Museum of New York Historical Perspective: The History of Theater in New York, and Hip Hop Discuss Cultural Crossroads.

Find the physical location in the city of one of the New York paintings we saw. Photograph it and post online
9/17 10:30AM Macaulay Movie Historical Perspective: Art movements of New York City Select a movement and give a brief presentation online
9/22 8:00PM Met. Opera “Nozze Di Figaro” by Mozart Write a review

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Nozze Di Figaro”
9/24 10:10AM

11:30AM

 HN C 103

Lincoln Center

 American Culture: American Musical Theater

Opera backstage tour

 Leonard Berstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein
10/3 8:00PM City Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company Write a review of the performance

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Alvin Ailey”
10/8 10:30AM Jazz Museum American Culture: Jazz Review a visit to a jazz club or go to one of the free concerts listed
10/15 10:30AM CUNY Graduate Center – Martin Segal Theater Dante Adela Demo Established Art and Fringe Art: Dance, hip hop and break dance, and jazz Is dance a language?
10/22 10:30AM Alvin Ailey Dance Studios Established Art and Fringe Art: Tour of the studios
10/29 10:10AM HN C103 Established Art and Fringe Art: The visual novel Finish reading New York City: The Big City by Will Eisner

Choose a topic to summarize our class journey or introduce a New York artistic movement or style
11/5 10:30AM 248 West 60th studio #5

Del Barrio lecture

 Form and Content: Choreographing for Broadway shows Work on your project
11/12 10:30AM MoMA Form and Content: Looking at music — Punk Rock Review exhibit

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “MoMA”
11/19 9:45 AM Philharmonic Open Rehearsal Muti conducts Profokiev’s Romeo and Juliet
 Review Concert

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Muti”
12/3 10:10AM HN C 103 Class presentation
12/10 10:10AM HN C 103 Class presentation

Calendar

* The reading is due the day of the lecture at which point it will be discussed. Come prepared. Aside of the reading / viewing/ listening material offered on the class website, you will be given a reader pamphlet of some of the texts to have. Please obtain a copy of “New York, The Big City” by Will Eisner, any edition will do. (Amazon.com second hand is a good source)

Class Schedule
Click here to download a Word .docx copy of the course schedule.

Date Time Location Topic Reading/Viewing/Listening
9/3 10:10AM HN C 103 Historical Perspective: West side and East What is Art?
9/10 10:30AM City Museum of New York Historical Perspective: The History of Theater in New York, and Hip Hop Discuss Cultural Crossroads.

Find the physical location in the city of one of the New York paintings we saw. Photograph it and post online
9/17 10:30AM Macaulay Honors College Historical Perspective: Art movements of New York City Select a movement and give a brief presentation online
9/22 8:00PM Met. Opera “Nozze Di Figaro” by Mozart Write a review

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Nozze Di Figaro”
9/24 10:10AM

11:30AM

 HN C 103

Lincoln Center

 American Culture: American Musical Theater

Opera backstage tour

 Leonard Berstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein
10/3 8:00PM City Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company Write a review of the performance

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Alvin Ailey”
10/8 10:30AM Jazz Museum American Culture: Jazz Review a visit to a jazz club or go to one of the free concerts listed
10/15 10:30AM CUNY Graduate Center – Martin Segal Theater

Dante Adela Demo

 Established Art and Fringe Art: Dance, hip hop and break dance, and jazz Is dance a language?
10/22 10:30AM Alvin Ailey Dance Studios Established Art and Fringe Art: Tour of the studios
10/29 10:10AM HN C 103 Established Art and Fringe Art: The visual novel Finish reading New York City: The Big City by Will Eisner

Choose a topic to summarize our class journey or introduce a New York artistic movement or style
11/5 10:30AM 248 West 60th St studio #5

Del Barrio lecture

 Form and Content: Choreographing for Broadway shows Work on your project
11/12 10:30AM MoMA Form and Content: Looking at music — Punk Rock Review exhibit

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “MoMA”
11/19 9:45 AM Philharmonic Open Rehearsal Muti conducts Profokiev’s Romeo and Juliet
 Review Concert

Post your assignment under the following categories: “Review” and “Muti”
12/3 10:10AM HN C 103 Class presentation
12/10 10:10AM HN C 103 Class presentation

For more information on “Meet the Artists” events, see http://macaulay.cuny.edu/academics/seminar1/

Click here to download a Word .doc copy of the Common Events calendar

Form and Content

View, read, listen and respond on-line:

MOMA: Looking at Music: Side 2

Will Eisner: Official Website

Roundabout Theater Company: The Art of Learning

Apexart: Scrawl

New York City Park Statues: Riverside Park

Wired NY Forum: War Memorials

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts

Words and Pictures Museum

Ramon Del Barrio: Official Website

Ballet NY: Dante Adela

Class Related Events:
10/29 The New York Artist, Visit a cartoon Artist studio TBA
11/5 @ 10:30AM Del Barrio Presentation, NH
11/12 Punk Rock, Modern Art Museum

Established and Fringe Art

View, read, listen and respond online:

Synopsis of Le Nozze di Figaro

New York Times Review: Marriage of Figaro

http://chcartsinnyc.wetpaint.com

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43680900

Who Gets to Call It Art? – Movie – Review – The New York Times

Lois Greenfield Dance Photograph: Melissa Morrisey/Dante Adela

Class Related Events:

10/15 @10:30AM Dance Class, Alvin Ailey Studios
10/22 @ 10:30 Film viewing and discussion “Will Eisner “, NH C103

American Culture

View, read, listen and respond online:

Jazz
Jazz Museum in Harlem Video Archive

Youtube video: Renee Fleming – Summertime

Jazz Times: Harlem Jazz Museum to Get a New Home

“Benny Goodman –Still Swinging at 100”, Jazz Improv NY magazine May 2009

Section on musical terms in “Marsalis on Music” Norton , 1995

The Complicated Life of Porgy and Bess

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia

PBS: Alvin Ailey Biography

Class Related Events:
10/3 @8:00PM Alvin Ailey Dance Company, City Center
10/8 @ 10:30PM Jazz Museum visit

Historical Perspective

View, read, listen and respond online:

http://www.alvinailey.org/

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on the Google Video


West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein as composer

The Official West Side Story Website

Lyrics

Archives > Journal

Ventura County Star: West Side Story is still touching and, sadly, all too relevant

Filmsite: West Side Story

Paul Robeson


Who Gets to Call It Art? – Movie – Review – The New York Times

New York Foundation of the Arts

Museum of the City of New York: Theater

MET Museum Special Exhibitions: Childe Hassam

Google Images: Hassam

Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro Vocal Score

The Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

Class Related Events:
8/27 @ 8:00 West Side Story, 47th Street
9/10 @10:30 The History of Theater in New York and Black Hip-Hop Fashion.
City Museum of New York
9/17 @10:30 Who Gets to Call it Art? Movie and discussion of Pop Art
9/22@ 8:00PM “Marriage of Figaro”, City Opera