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EspañolFIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ART AND PERFORMING ARTS
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'Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts', also officially known as "H.S. 485", is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Although it also offers academic diplomas, the school prepares public high school students for professional careers and/or conservatory study in dance, drama, the visual arts, vocal and instrumental music and theater production.
Informally known as LaGuardia Arts, or LaGuardia High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is the only school among New York City's eight specialized high schools that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht Calandra Act. The other schools are Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Brooklyn Latin School, and Staten Island Technical High School.
Adjacent to New York's Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, the building that is now home to LaGuardia Arts was opened in 1984 to bring together two "sister" arts high schools of the day, The High School of Music & Art (started by Mayor LaGuardia in 1936) and the High School of Performing Arts, established in 1947. Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art (a/k/a "The Castle on the Hill") was located on Saint Nicholas Terrace and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College (CCNY)'s South Campus; Performing Arts was located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia regarded Music & Art as the "most hopeful accomplishment" of his long administration as mayor[3].
The movie ''Fame'' and the TV Series ''Fame'' both dramatized student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School, and an Off-Broadway show of ''Fame'' was produced in 2003-2004.
Alumni from LaGuardia and its two legacy schools, Music & Art and Performing Arts are active in supporting the students and the school through scholarships and support for special programs, school events, and reunions held at the school and throughout the world. The school's alumni organization has a full-time executive director and offices at the school. It functions as an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York.
Students at LaGuardia take a full academic course load while participating in conservatory-style arts concentration. Each student majors in one studio, choosing from among Dance, Drama, Art, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, and Technical Theater. There are no double majors.
LaGuardia is a prestigious high school and is one of the top academic high schools that prepares students for scholarships to top colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Brown, and NYU. Ninety-five percent of graduates from LaGuardia continue their studies in universities after graduation. LaGuardia is the only Specialized High School that trains students in both atelier and conservatory arts and in college preparatory academic subjects.
LaGuardia follows a 10 period day, with at least 150 students following a schedule that has a 0 period or,as of the new school year beginning fall of 2007, an 11th period. Periods are 40 minutes long with a 4 minute break between each period. Each student spends a minimum three periods in studio classes (four for Dance and Drama majors, whose studios fulfill physical education requirements), and usually four or five periods in English, Math, Science, History, Language, and/or Physical Education, with one period for lunch. By state law, students are required to complete four years of English and History classes, three years of Math, Science and Physical Education, and two years of a Foreign Language. Students who do not meet their studio requirements at graduation leave without a studio-endorsed diploma.
LaGuardia has offered an honors track to students entering after 2006, known as the DaVinci Program. DaVinci Scholars take more difficult classes and participate in a supplementary after-school enrichment program. Students not in the program may still take individual honors classes. LaGuardia also offers Advanced Placement courses in Language and Composition, Literature, Spanish, French, and Italian languages, United States History, Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Science, Art History and Music Theory.
The following people are alumni of LaGuardia High School and its two legacy schools, The High School of Music & Art, and the School of Performing Arts High School.[4]:
'Composers'
★ Martin Bresnick
★ Cy Coleman
★ Robert Dick
★ Morton Feldman
★ Charles Fox
★ Gerald Fried
★ Joel Hirschhorn
★ Michael Kamen
★ Domino Kirke
★ Edward Kleban
★ Meyer Kupferman
★ Ezra Laderman
★ Paul Lansky
★ Mitch Leigh
★ Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
★ Stu Phillips
★ Jonathan Tunick
'Conductors'
★ Leon Botstein
★ James Conlon
★ Eve Queler
★ Gerard Schwarz
★ David Zinman
'Instrumentalists'
★ Ik-Hwan Bae
★ Kenneth Cooper
★ Bernard Garfield
★ David Krakauer
★ Steven Lubin
★ Murray Perahia
★ Joshua Rifkin
★ Bernard Shapiro
★ Roland Vamos
★ Arthur Weisberg
★ Dean Whiteside
★ Warren Wilson
★ Pinchas Zukerman
★ Frederick Hand
★ Steve Stevens
'Classical Singers'
★ Jennifer Chase
★ Reri Grist
★ Julia Migenes
★ Rodrick Dixon
'Jazz Musicians'
★ Dennis Bell
★ Sterling Campbell
★ Bill Charlap
★ Ray Chew
★ Billy Cobham
★ Eddie Daniels
★ Kenny Drew
★ Sharon Freeman
★ Eddie Gomez
★ Steve Gordon
★ Omar Hakim
★ Chuck Israels
★ Steve Jordan
★ Marcus Miller
★ Charnett Moffett
★ Shorty Rogers
★ Jeremy Steig
★ Dave Valentin
★ Kenny Washington
★ Larry Willis
'Dancers/Choreographers'
★ Gregg Burge
★ Michael Callen
★ Altovise Davis (nee Gore)
★ Christopher Chadman
★ Lola Falana
★ Eliot Feld
★ Darren Gibson
★ Arthur Mitchell
★ Michael Peters
★ Edward Villella
★ Norman Walker
'Media'
★ Margot Adler
★ David Ehrenstein
★ Max Frankel
★ Peter Frishauf
★ Michael Klare
★ Bess Myerson
★ Susan Stamberg
'Directors/Writers'
★ Lou Berger
★ Maurice Berger
★ Michael Brigante
★ Robert Brustein
★ James Burrows
★ Charles Busch
★ Martin Charnin
★ Graham Diamond
★ Herb Gardner
★ Diana Gould
★ Peter Hyams
★ Erica Jong
★ Michael Kahn
★ Jonathan Lethem
★ Lonny Price
★ Esmeralda Santiago
★ Charles Van Doren
'Producers'
★ Steven Bochco
★ Robert Greenwald
★ Lynne Littman
★ David Simon
'Singers, songwriters, rappers, pop artists'
★ Carole Bayer Sager
★ Marilyn Bergman
★ Eagle Eye Cherry
★ Jean Goode
★ Janis Ian
★ Kelis
★ Eartha Kitt
★ Shari Lewis
★ Melissa Manchester
★ Ethan Marunas
★ Liza Minnelli
★ Shelley Ackerman
★ Michael Jackson
★ Dana Dane
★ Laura Nyro
★ Doug Payne
★ Mark Rivera
★ Paul Stanley
★ Elly Stone
★ Mario Vazquez
★ Daphne Rubin Vega
★ Suzanne Vega
★ Slick Rick
★ Eric Weissberg
★ Peter Yarrow
'Actors'
★ Jennifer Aniston
★ Ellen Barkin
★ Richard Benjamin
★ Chastity Bono
★ Julie Bovasso
★ Adrien Brody
★ Cara Buono
★ Charles Busch
★ Northern Calloway
★ Diahann Carroll
★ Thom Christopher
★ Keith David
★ Michael DeLorenzo
★ Dom DeLuise
★ Dagmara Dominczyk
★ Omar Epps
★ Cliff Gorman
★ Adrian Grenier
★ Anna Maria Horsford
★ Jackee Harry
★ Paula Kelly
★ Zohra Lampert
★ Dawnn Lewis
★ Hal Linden
★ Priscilla Lopez
★ Sonia Manzano
★ Janet Margolin
★ James Moody
★ Al Pacino
★ Sarah Paulson
★ Elizabeth Peña
★ Brock Peters
★ Suzanne Pleshette
★ Tony Roberts
★ Jennifer Salt
★ Helen Slater
★ Wesley Snipes
★ Susan Strasberg
★ Glynn Turman
★ Martha Veléz
★ Ben Vereen
★ Jessica Walter
★ Lesley Ann Warren
★ Marlon Wayans
★ Billy Dee Williams
★ Christy Cardwell
★ Vanessa Williams
'Architects'
★ Charles Gwathmey
★ Robert Siegel
'Artists & Illustrators'
★ Justin Bua
★ James Bama
★ Victor Claudio
★ Will Elder
★ Audrey Flack
★ Mary Frank
★ Laurence Gartel
★ Milton Glaser
★ Al Jaffee
★ Wolf Kahn
★ Allan Kaprow
★ Harvey Kurtzman
★ Reginald Pollack
★ Edward Sorel
★ Daniel Schwartz
★ Aaron Shikler
★ Burton Silverman
★ Larry Walker
★ Fred Wilson
★ Melanie Bownoth
'Designers'
★ Elrico John Blancaflor
★ Isaac Mizrahi
★ Milton Glaser
★ Hugh G. Wreckshin
★ Mike Hunt
★ Harry Ball
'Photographers'
★ Beth Bergman
★ George Del Barrio
★ Neal Slavin
'Artist Managers'
★ Shelly Berger
★ Sid Garris
★ Sheldon Soffer
'Arts Administrators'
★ Luis Cancel
★ Arthur Drexler
★ Cora Cabot Geister
★ Laura Kaminsky
★ Daniel Windham
Students are accepted based on auditions (Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music and Vocal Music) and portfolios (Art and Technical Theater). Their academic and attendance records are also scrutinized with most incoming students scoring at least a "3" - meeting standards - on their seventh grade standardized exams. Auditions are held from November through December.
LaGuardia High School has no specific feeder schools.
1. http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/05asr/103485.pdf
2. http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/03/M485/AboutUs/Statistics/register.htm
3. Steigman, Benjamin: ''Accent on Talent — New York's High School of Music & Art'' Wayne State University Press, 1984 ISBN 0686879759
4. A more complete list is available at
alumniandfriends.org
★ Professional Performing Arts School
★ Professional Children's School
★ School of American Ballet
★ Official school website created and supported by the Parents' Association
★ Website of Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
★ Notable alumni of LaGuardia Arts and its two legacy schools: Music & Art and Performing Arts
★ Laguardia Cycling Association created and run by current students at the school
★ Website of The School of Performing Arts (1948-1984) Alumni
'Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts', also officially known as "H.S. 485", is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Although it also offers academic diplomas, the school prepares public high school students for professional careers and/or conservatory study in dance, drama, the visual arts, vocal and instrumental music and theater production.
Informally known as LaGuardia Arts, or LaGuardia High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is the only school among New York City's eight specialized high schools that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht Calandra Act. The other schools are Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Brooklyn Latin School, and Staten Island Technical High School.
| Contents |
| History |
| Curriculum |
| Notable alumni |
| Applications |
| Notes |
| See also |
| External links |
History
Adjacent to New York's Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, the building that is now home to LaGuardia Arts was opened in 1984 to bring together two "sister" arts high schools of the day, The High School of Music & Art (started by Mayor LaGuardia in 1936) and the High School of Performing Arts, established in 1947. Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art (a/k/a "The Castle on the Hill") was located on Saint Nicholas Terrace and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College (CCNY)'s South Campus; Performing Arts was located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia regarded Music & Art as the "most hopeful accomplishment" of his long administration as mayor[3].
The movie ''Fame'' and the TV Series ''Fame'' both dramatized student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School, and an Off-Broadway show of ''Fame'' was produced in 2003-2004.
Alumni from LaGuardia and its two legacy schools, Music & Art and Performing Arts are active in supporting the students and the school through scholarships and support for special programs, school events, and reunions held at the school and throughout the world. The school's alumni organization has a full-time executive director and offices at the school. It functions as an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York.
Curriculum
Students at LaGuardia take a full academic course load while participating in conservatory-style arts concentration. Each student majors in one studio, choosing from among Dance, Drama, Art, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, and Technical Theater. There are no double majors.
LaGuardia is a prestigious high school and is one of the top academic high schools that prepares students for scholarships to top colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Brown, and NYU. Ninety-five percent of graduates from LaGuardia continue their studies in universities after graduation. LaGuardia is the only Specialized High School that trains students in both atelier and conservatory arts and in college preparatory academic subjects.
LaGuardia follows a 10 period day, with at least 150 students following a schedule that has a 0 period or,as of the new school year beginning fall of 2007, an 11th period. Periods are 40 minutes long with a 4 minute break between each period. Each student spends a minimum three periods in studio classes (four for Dance and Drama majors, whose studios fulfill physical education requirements), and usually four or five periods in English, Math, Science, History, Language, and/or Physical Education, with one period for lunch. By state law, students are required to complete four years of English and History classes, three years of Math, Science and Physical Education, and two years of a Foreign Language. Students who do not meet their studio requirements at graduation leave without a studio-endorsed diploma.
LaGuardia has offered an honors track to students entering after 2006, known as the DaVinci Program. DaVinci Scholars take more difficult classes and participate in a supplementary after-school enrichment program. Students not in the program may still take individual honors classes. LaGuardia also offers Advanced Placement courses in Language and Composition, Literature, Spanish, French, and Italian languages, United States History, Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Science, Art History and Music Theory.
Notable alumni
The following people are alumni of LaGuardia High School and its two legacy schools, The High School of Music & Art, and the School of Performing Arts High School.[4]:
'Composers'
★ Martin Bresnick
★ Cy Coleman
★ Robert Dick
★ Morton Feldman
★ Charles Fox
★ Gerald Fried
★ Joel Hirschhorn
★ Michael Kamen
★ Domino Kirke
★ Edward Kleban
★ Meyer Kupferman
★ Ezra Laderman
★ Paul Lansky
★ Mitch Leigh
★ Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
★ Stu Phillips
★ Jonathan Tunick
'Conductors'
★ Leon Botstein
★ James Conlon
★ Eve Queler
★ Gerard Schwarz
★ David Zinman
'Instrumentalists'
★ Ik-Hwan Bae
★ Kenneth Cooper
★ Bernard Garfield
★ David Krakauer
★ Steven Lubin
★ Murray Perahia
★ Joshua Rifkin
★ Bernard Shapiro
★ Roland Vamos
★ Arthur Weisberg
★ Dean Whiteside
★ Warren Wilson
★ Pinchas Zukerman
★ Frederick Hand
★ Steve Stevens
'Classical Singers'
★ Jennifer Chase
★ Reri Grist
★ Julia Migenes
★ Rodrick Dixon
'Jazz Musicians'
★ Dennis Bell
★ Sterling Campbell
★ Bill Charlap
★ Ray Chew
★ Billy Cobham
★ Eddie Daniels
★ Kenny Drew
★ Sharon Freeman
★ Eddie Gomez
★ Steve Gordon
★ Omar Hakim
★ Chuck Israels
★ Steve Jordan
★ Marcus Miller
★ Charnett Moffett
★ Shorty Rogers
★ Jeremy Steig
★ Dave Valentin
★ Kenny Washington
★ Larry Willis
'Dancers/Choreographers'
★ Gregg Burge
★ Michael Callen
★ Altovise Davis (nee Gore)
★ Christopher Chadman
★ Lola Falana
★ Eliot Feld
★ Darren Gibson
★ Arthur Mitchell
★ Michael Peters
★ Edward Villella
★ Norman Walker
'Media'
★ Margot Adler
★ David Ehrenstein
★ Max Frankel
★ Peter Frishauf
★ Michael Klare
★ Bess Myerson
★ Susan Stamberg
'Directors/Writers'
★ Lou Berger
★ Maurice Berger
★ Michael Brigante
★ Robert Brustein
★ James Burrows
★ Charles Busch
★ Martin Charnin
★ Graham Diamond
★ Herb Gardner
★ Diana Gould
★ Peter Hyams
★ Erica Jong
★ Michael Kahn
★ Jonathan Lethem
★ Lonny Price
★ Esmeralda Santiago
★ Charles Van Doren
'Producers'
★ Steven Bochco
★ Robert Greenwald
★ Lynne Littman
★ David Simon
'Singers, songwriters, rappers, pop artists'
★ Carole Bayer Sager
★ Marilyn Bergman
★ Eagle Eye Cherry
★ Jean Goode
★ Janis Ian
★ Kelis
★ Eartha Kitt
★ Shari Lewis
★ Melissa Manchester
★ Ethan Marunas
★ Liza Minnelli
★ Shelley Ackerman
★ Michael Jackson
★ Dana Dane
★ Laura Nyro
★ Doug Payne
★ Mark Rivera
★ Paul Stanley
★ Elly Stone
★ Mario Vazquez
★ Daphne Rubin Vega
★ Suzanne Vega
★ Slick Rick
★ Eric Weissberg
★ Peter Yarrow
'Actors'
★ Jennifer Aniston
★ Ellen Barkin
★ Richard Benjamin
★ Chastity Bono
★ Julie Bovasso
★ Adrien Brody
★ Cara Buono
★ Charles Busch
★ Northern Calloway
★ Diahann Carroll
★ Thom Christopher
★ Keith David
★ Michael DeLorenzo
★ Dom DeLuise
★ Dagmara Dominczyk
★ Omar Epps
★ Cliff Gorman
★ Adrian Grenier
★ Anna Maria Horsford
★ Jackee Harry
★ Paula Kelly
★ Zohra Lampert
★ Dawnn Lewis
★ Hal Linden
★ Priscilla Lopez
★ Sonia Manzano
★ Janet Margolin
★ James Moody
★ Al Pacino
★ Sarah Paulson
★ Elizabeth Peña
★ Brock Peters
★ Suzanne Pleshette
★ Tony Roberts
★ Jennifer Salt
★ Helen Slater
★ Wesley Snipes
★ Susan Strasberg
★ Glynn Turman
★ Martha Veléz
★ Ben Vereen
★ Jessica Walter
★ Lesley Ann Warren
★ Marlon Wayans
★ Billy Dee Williams
★ Christy Cardwell
★ Vanessa Williams
'Architects'
★ Charles Gwathmey
★ Robert Siegel
'Artists & Illustrators'
★ Justin Bua
★ James Bama
★ Victor Claudio
★ Will Elder
★ Audrey Flack
★ Mary Frank
★ Laurence Gartel
★ Milton Glaser
★ Al Jaffee
★ Wolf Kahn
★ Allan Kaprow
★ Harvey Kurtzman
★ Reginald Pollack
★ Edward Sorel
★ Daniel Schwartz
★ Aaron Shikler
★ Burton Silverman
★ Larry Walker
★ Fred Wilson
★ Melanie Bownoth
'Designers'
★ Elrico John Blancaflor
★ Isaac Mizrahi
★ Milton Glaser
★ Hugh G. Wreckshin
★ Mike Hunt
★ Harry Ball
'Photographers'
★ Beth Bergman
★ George Del Barrio
★ Neal Slavin
'Artist Managers'
★ Shelly Berger
★ Sid Garris
★ Sheldon Soffer
'Arts Administrators'
★ Luis Cancel
★ Arthur Drexler
★ Cora Cabot Geister
★ Laura Kaminsky
★ Daniel Windham
Applications
Students are accepted based on auditions (Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music and Vocal Music) and portfolios (Art and Technical Theater). Their academic and attendance records are also scrutinized with most incoming students scoring at least a "3" - meeting standards - on their seventh grade standardized exams. Auditions are held from November through December.
LaGuardia High School has no specific feeder schools.
Notes
1. http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/05asr/103485.pdf
2. http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/03/M485/AboutUs/Statistics/register.htm
3. Steigman, Benjamin: ''Accent on Talent — New York's High School of Music & Art'' Wayne State University Press, 1984 ISBN 0686879759
4. A more complete list is available at
alumniandfriends.org
See also
★ Professional Performing Arts School
★ Professional Children's School
★ School of American Ballet
External links
★ Official school website created and supported by the Parents' Association
★ Website of Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
★ Notable alumni of LaGuardia Arts and its two legacy schools: Music & Art and Performing Arts
★ Laguardia Cycling Association created and run by current students at the school
★ Website of The School of Performing Arts (1948-1984) Alumni
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