WELCOME
Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
We stand in solidarity with the fight against racism and inequity.
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While LaGuardia is closed due to Covid, you may contact us at info@alumniandfriends.org. All paper correspondence and contributions may be mailed to our P.O. Box:
Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia
P.O. Box 230015
Ansonia Station
New York, NY 10023
We hope to see you soon!
ALUMNI & FRIENDS HIGHLIGHTS
Friday April 9th, 2021
Congratulations to Lauren Paganucci (LaG '16) who is a finalist in the 10th Annual SUNYWide Film Festival April 9-10th for her film "A Mother's Touch." Her experimental film captures three generations of women: her mother and grandmother before the lens of a 16 mm camera and herself behind it, the timeless eye recording her family’s story. www.binghamton.edu/news/story/2964/mothers-touch-alums-experimental-film-is-film-festival-finalist
More information about the film festival, hosted by SUNY Purchase: www.sunywidefilmfestival.com/
Mother’s Touch: Alum’s experimental film is film festival finalist - Binghamton News
www.binghamton.edu
“Mother’s Touch,” an experimental film by Lauren Paganucci ’20, was selected as a finalist for the SUNYWide Film Festival.Yay Lauren Paganucci!
Congratulations Lauren Paganucci !!!!
Go Lauren!
Friday April 9th, 2021
Join on April 19, 2021 at 7pm for this Zoom panel discussion on Reopening Broadway Theater and Beyond presented by Episcopal Actors Guild (EAG) - since 1923 EAG has been supplying emergent care and career support to professional performers of all faiths who are undergoing financial crisis.
Moderated by M&A '56 alumna and Tony Award-winning Commercial Theatrical Producer and EAG Council Member Margot Astrachan (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder—Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Diana: A New Musical—heading to Netflix prior to Broadway).
All proceeds from this event will go to support the charitable programs of EAG for NYC's performing artists in need.
Industry panelists Scott Irgang (Director of Labor Relations for The Broadway League), Ryan Conway (2nd Vice President of The Off-Broadway League; President of Architect Theatrical—General Managers for Broadway’s West Side Story, Off-Broadway’s Rock of Ages), and Carl Pasbjerg (Managing Partner of Alchemy Production Group—Manager and Co-Producer of the Broadway, Toronto, West End, Australia, and Touring productions of Come From Away) will discuss how to get shows and audiences back into our theaters in New York and nationwide.
www.actorsguild.org/who-we-are.html
Friday April 9th, 2021
Please check out this event "Wake Up, Rise Up - LIVE 4 Peace," created by Doug Payne (M&A '74) - A Virtual 24-Hour Concert on September 21, 2021 - www.wakeup-riseup-live4peace.org/
"Expanding 24 hours this event includes motivational speakers, music, poetry, mental health specialists, stories from victims and entertainers from around the globe. This will be similar to a track style relay race where each runner (the location) will pass the peace baton to the next runner (location) after they complete their pre-recorded presentation. The selected date is Tuesday, September 21, 2021 and this coincides with the United Nations “International Peace Day” that was started back in 1981."
Friday April 9th, 2021
Check out the new Netflix movie "Concrete Cowboys" starring Jharrel Jerome (LaG '16) and Lorraine Toussaint (PA '78) and read this interview!
"Concrete Cowboy introduces audiences to Fletcher Street in Philadelphia. The story is told through a father and son who reconnect as they discover a group of black Cowboys amidst their neighborhood. The stellar ensemble cast is made up of gems like Lorraine Toussaint, Jharrel Jerome, and Method Man (Cliff Smith Jr.). The stars spoke to Screen Rant about learning from the real life riders their characters were based on and respecting the community they represented."
screenrant.com/concrete-cowboy-movie-toussaint-jerome-method-man-interview/
Lorraine Toussaint, Jharrel Jerome & Method Man Interview: Concrete Cowboy
screenrant.com
Our chat with the stars!Wednesday April 7th, 2021
Check out artist Alice Elisabeth Waite's (LaG '06) exhibit “Into the Light” at River Muse Art Gallery in Clayton, NY - 229 John St.
rivermusegallery.com/
"These images are a celebration and homage to the sanctity of nature and of the female sex. The works exude variety of bright, bold colors in an attempt to capture the individuality and distinctive identities of the subjects.
Alice paints in mostly oil, as well as acrylic and watercolor. Much of the imagery She creates is a communication of her connection to nature and how she experiences it as a woman.
The North Country and Thousand Island region has been the backdrop for her work for the last four years. Alice has cultivated an appreciation for, and have drawn inspiration from this area. Flowers being a natural symbol of femininity, are a common motif throughout.
In this showing Alice wants the audience to feel completely immersed in nature and to join her in the veneration of woman."
www.nny360.com/artsandlife/artsandentertainment/spring-show-at-river-muse-art-gallery-goes-into-t...
Spring show at River Muse Art Gallery goes ‘Into the Light’
www.nny360.com
CLAYTON — Artist Alice Elisabeth Waite is coming back “Into the Light” with an exhibit at River Muse Art Gallery after the plan to host her show at the galleryMonday March 29th, 2021
Check out this wonderful exhibit in Concord, Massachusetts with Katy Schneider (M&A '82), April 1-May 13, 2021:
SILVER LININGS: Paintings, Process and Poetry
PAINTINGS BY KATY SCHNEIDER AND POETRY BY JIM ARMENTI. www.concordart.org/upcoming
Katy Schneider and Jim Armenti began a collaboration at the beginning of the pandemic. Each day, Katy created a tiny exquisitely rendered painting of an object found in her home and emailed an image of the completed work to Jim. In return, he sent her a poem inspired by the painting. Their collaboration is still going!
Katy Schneider’s 400 and counting 3×4 inch paintings of everyday objects as well as a group of 6×6 inch paintings will be on view in the Main Galleries. A selection of Jim Armenti’s object inspired poetry will also be on display. Visitors will be invited to write poems to go with Schneider’s paintings in a Poetry Process Gallery. www.concordart.org/upcoming
Katy is an art professor at Smith College in Northampton, MA - www.instagram.com/katyschneiderpainter/
Monday March 29th, 2021
Groundbreaking artist Lilian Thomas Burwell (M&A '44, though she left the school before graduating, moving to DC) will have her first New York solo exhibition at age 93.
“Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring” opens April 22 at Berry Campbell Gallery. An abstract artist, Burwell makes nature-inspired paintings and sculpture. She was featured in “Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today,” a groundbreaking exhibition presenting works by 21 Black female artists that originated at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City and traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla., from 2017 to 2018. Burwell is also the subject of a recent documentary, “Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell.”
www.culturetype.com/2021/03/28/at-93-lilian-thomas-burwell-is-making-her-solo-debut-in-new-york-w...
www.culturetype.com
STILL PUSHING HER PRACTICE to new heights, Lilian Thomas Burwell will have her first New York solo exhibition at age 93. Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring opens April 22 at Berry Campbell Gall...Love you Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School <3 I credit you for where I am as a designer and artist today. Working at my dreams and fulfilling my passion and purpose in NYC. Could not be happier.
Friday March 26th, 2021
We say goodbye to brilliant actress Jessica Walter (PA '58). Jessica recently wrote to Alumni & Friends saying, "I owe so much to the foundation I received at PA!"
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/arts/television/jessica-walter-dead.html
Jessica Walter, Tart-Tongued Matriarch of ‘Arrested Development,’ Dies at 80
www.nytimes.com
An Emmy Award-winning actress, she gained early fame in Clint Eastwood’s “Play Misty for Me” and found a new audience in a TV cult hit.In my young agent days, I represented Jessica and put her in Sidney Lumet's movie "The Group".
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She was wonderful... and will be missed....
Leo Naut
I remember Jessica came and spoke informally in one of my classes once, must've been 1962. I think it was "Interpretation" with Ms Provet... I remember her as glamorous, great energy...
Wednesday March 24th, 2021
Watch a great 4-minute video with Chet Gold (LaG '04), who works at MoMA, as he discusses his favorite painting, Monet's 'Water Lillies,' while dressed as the work of art! www.moma.org/magazine/articles/519?
Chet Gold is a multi-disciplinary artist - check out more at www.chetgold.com/
Chet Gold on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies | Magazine | MoMA
www.moma.org
At a time when we could all use more beauty in our lives, “the Water Lilies have our back.”Wednesday March 24th, 2021
TODAY - register for this amazing FREE virtual event March 24, 2021, 3-5:30pm, EST.
New York Tech Live: West Side Story: How It Speaks to Us Now. Featuring author Esmeralda Santiago (PA '66), Bobby Sanabria -
Multi-Grammy-Nominated Musician, Mike Wallace - New York Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author. www.nyit.edu/events/west_side_story_how_it_speaks_to_us_now
"Esmeralda Santiago moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 1961 at the age of 13 and attended New York City's Performing Arts High School. She graduated from Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College. With husband Frank Cantor, she founded Cantomedia, an award-winning documentary film and media production company. Her career evolved from writing documentary and educational films to essays and opinion pieces that appeared in national newspapers including The New York Times and The Boston Globe and mass market magazines. Her first book, the memoir When I was Puerto Rican, was followed by a novel, America’s Dream; a second memoir, Almost a Woman, which was adapted into a 2002 film for Masterpiece Theatre, and a third memoir, The Turkish Lover."
"Recognized as one of the most important voices in Puerto Rican writing, Santiago has written about her complex and ambivalent response to West Side Story, which came out when she was a student at the famous High School of the Performing Arts. She will share her firsthand experiences and unique insights on the film’s legacy within the Puerto Rican community with Qiuana Dudley-Vegliante, an English major at New York Tech.
Four iconic New Yorkers will discuss the monumental impact of West Side Story on their lives and work, set in the context of New York City and urban planning for the Upper West Side."
www.nyit.edu/events/west_side_story_how_it_speaks_to_us_now
TALENT SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE FAME SCHOOL IN REAL MYSTICAL MUSICAL PLAY WITH DNA AND REINCARNATES THE SPIRIT OF MICHAEL PETERS. HEAR IT/READ IT HERE: FAMENETWORK.COM
Tuesday March 23rd, 2021
A review of the new documentary "Wojnarowicz" about artist David Wojnarowicz (M&A '73), who died of AIDS in 1992, at age 37.
"Directed by Chris McKim, this exemplary documentary on the artist (which is also a mini-chronicle of the East Village art scene of 1970s and ’80s New York) takes advantage of Wojnarowicz’s penchant for self-documentation, drawing on the cassette journals he began keeping even before he was a fully formed creator. The documents Wojnarowicz maintained in this period, during which his art became inextricable from his activism, guide the viewer into the second American hellscape Wojnarowicz experienced: the AIDS epidemic."
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/movies/wojnarowicz-review.html
‘Wojnarowicz’ Review: A Revolutionary Provocateur
www.nytimes.com
A documentary on the artist David Wojnarowicz shows the ways that the rebel was a prophet, and honors him appropriately.Tuesday March 23rd, 2021
Enjoy this beautiful piece - Boismortier's Sonates à Deux Violes performed by Jay Bernfeld, (M&A '70) and Patricia Ann Neely (M&A '71).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQ8UgR0Ut4
Tuesday March 23rd, 2021
Check out WPIX now to see Alex Garfin (LaG '21) live - around 9:40am EST. pix11.com/live/
Alex stars in the CW show "Superman & Lois" as Jordan Kent, one of Clark and Lois's twin sons.
www.cbr.com/superman-lois-jordan-kent-alexander-garfin-interview/
pix11.com
PIX11 Live Stream Schedule Watch the latest broadcasts from PIX11 live. For our full broadcast schedule, view our PIX11 TV Schedule page. Here is our live stream programming schedule. Monday –…Monday March 22nd, 2021
Read a great piece on dancer Raven Barkley (LaG '11).
“I am a firm believer that representation matters,” she said. “If we don’t see women of color or even people of color in these positions, these leadership positions, then we don’t see what the possibility is.”
www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2021-03-21/charlotte-ballets-raven-barkley-on-the-power-of-representation
Charlotte Ballet's Raven Barkley On The Power Of Representation
www.wfae.org
As a dancer, Charlotte Ballet’s Raven Barkley understands the power of gestures, symbols and movement. All literally guide her life's journey. She says the poetry of Amanda Gorman and the election o...Monday March 22nd, 2021
We say goodbye to Dr. Kenneth Cooper (M&A '58), "a harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist who was acclaimed for performances of Baroque music that balanced historical insights with engaging spontaneity, whose nearly 100 recordings included forays into contemporary works and ragtime, and whose collaborators included Yo-Yo Ma, died on March 13."
His father Rudolph Cooper was an English teacher at Music and Art, and his son Nicholas graduated in 1998 from the Drama department. Read about his wonderful contributions.
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/arts/music/kenneth-cooper-dead.html
Kenneth Cooper, Harpsichordist With Improviser’s Gift, Dies at 79
www.nytimes.com
He excelled in the Baroque repertoire, but his interests were eclectic. He was also an accomplished musicologist.Monday March 22nd, 2021
Paul Stanley (M&A '70, Art major) has a new 10-piece band, Soul Station, and they just released their debut album "Now and Then," featuring classics by Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Al Green, plus original soul ballads.
Stanley says, “It’s liberating anytime you allow yourself out of the boundaries that other people set for you. It doesn't have to please everybody — that's not the point at all. When I starred in (a 1999 touring Broadway production of) 'Phantom of the Opera,' some people asked me if I was reinventing myself. And I say the same thing now: 'I'm not a rock singer. I'm a singer who loves rock.' That's a choice. I love doing it. But it's not all I am or want to be."
www.theday.com/article/20210321/ENT10/210329986
Kiss's Paul Stanley embraces love of vintage R&B with new band
www.theday.com
Say what?Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Stanley, artistically reborn as a vintage soul-music crooner?The guitar-playing front man of the hard-Monday March 22nd, 2021
Jasmine Cephas-Jones (LaG '07) will star in "Blindspotting" on Starz, a new series based on the film from Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.
Cephas-Jones starred with Diggs in "Hamilton" and originated the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds. In 2020, Cephas Jones won a Primetime Emmy for portraying Tyisha in #freerayshawn.
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jasmine-Cephas-Jones-Will-Lead-BLINDSPOTTING-Series-on-Starz-20200910
Jasmine Cephas Jones Will Lead BLINDSPOTTING Series on Starz
www.broadwayworld.com
Variety reports that Starz has officially ordered 'Blindspotting,' a new series starring Jasmine Cephas Jones. The show is based on the film from Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.Saturday March 20th, 2021
Read a great interview with Monifa Brown (LaG '89), who celebrates 25 years as the host of WBGO’s “Saturday Afternoon Jazz” every Saturday from 2-6pm and online around the world at WBGO.ORG! Read more about Monifa!
baristanet.com/2021/03/baristanet-profile-monifa-brown/
Baristanet Profile: Monifa Brown | Baristanet
baristanet.com
Name: Monifa Brown Where do you live? Montclair, NJ When did you move there? I moved to Montclair in 1998. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in an interracial family in Brooklyn. From going...Friday March 19th, 2021
#fiorellofriday
Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 at 7:30pm enjoy the incredible Winter Dance Showcase on Vimeo at: vimeo.com/event/807991/dfb22fd688
The Winter Dance Showcase features work choreographed by the Senior class. These dance pieces were created during their senior year while working remotely in their Choreography
classes.
See the full program here: laguardiahspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WDS2021-Program.pdf
Thursday March 18th, 2021
Support an awesome new business venture - Common Grind Clothing - from Brian Hazan (LaG '09)!
"Common Grind Clothing is an all-gender apparel brand promoting social awareness and empowering individuals to be living representations of the ideals they stand for.
We donate a portion of our sales to support our five non-profit partners with financial resources to work towards a stronger tomorrow. These organizations tackle a range of critical issues including: criminal justice reform, creating an LGBTQ+ positive environment in the public school system, closing the opportunity gap that exists in children's health and wellness, aiding the environment, and combating animal homelessness and cruelty."
commongrindclothing.com/
Common Grind Clothing | Mission-Driven Apparel
commongrindclothing.com
All-Gender Apparel. Empowering Individuals To Represent What They Stand For.Thank you for the support! 🙏
I know that guy!!!!
Beautiful messages - will be ordering 💕
Thursday March 18th, 2021
#ThankfulThursday
Rudy Valentine, M&A '67 says: "When I think about M&A I get sentimental; it was some of the best years of my life. I was blessed to go to M&A and become part of a family of talented beautiful people. A family of artists that represented all walks of life and cultures, were accepting and encouraging of one another, and demonstrated what people should be like, what America should be like, what the world should be like."
⭐️ Fill out our quick form at alumniandfriends.org/thankful/ and tell us why YOU are thankful for your FREE high school arts education at M&A, PA, and LaGuardia! And read why others are thankful. ⭐️
(all cards made by LaG students)
Aw Rudy... I feel exactly the same way that you do... I wish that everyone on the planet could have that 'M&A' experience... to learn firsthand that all people are important... and that we can all have a wonderful world, if we realize that we share so much... Sending lots of love your way...
Coming from the same class as Rudy, I feel exactly as he does! What a diverse and great group of talented and wonderful people!
Ditto! And hello to Rudy!
Hi Rudy! I think we all felt exactly as you did.... still miss that feeling of belonging and community that we had then.... ❤️
Hi Rudy, I feel the same way. Certainly was a model community for all of us.
Tuesday March 16th, 2021
Thank you to Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (LaG '90) for giving back to your beloved LaGuardia and speaking to students in one of LaGuardia's Government classes (teacher Sharon Hartnett) on March 11.
She is the State Committee Woman / District Leader for New York State’s 42nd Assembly District representing Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood and Ditmas Park in Brooklyn.
nyassembly.gov/mem/Rodneyse-Bichotte/bio
nyassembly.gov
News and Information from the New York State AssemblyTuesday March 16th, 2021
Register for this amazing FREE virtual event on March 24, 2021, 3-5:30pm.
New York Tech Live: West Side Story: How It Speaks to Us Now. Featuring author Esmeralda Santiago (PA '66), Bobby Sanabria -
Multi-Grammy-Nominated Musician, Mike Wallace - New York Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author. www.nyit.edu/events/west_side_story_how_it_speaks_to_us_now
"Esmeralda Santiago moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 1961 at the age of 13 and attended New York City's Performing Arts High School. She graduated from Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College. With husband Frank Cantor, she founded Cantomedia, an award-winning documentary film and media production company. Her career evolved from writing documentary and educational films to essays and opinion pieces that appeared in national newspapers including The New York Times and The Boston Globe and mass market magazines. Her first book, the memoir When I was Puerto Rican, was followed by a novel, America’s Dream; a second memoir, Almost a Woman, which was adapted into a 2002 film for Masterpiece Theatre, and a third memoir, The Turkish Lover."
"Recognized as one of the most important voices in Puerto Rican writing, Santiago has written about her complex and ambivalent response to West Side Story, which came out when she was a student at the famous High School of the Performing Arts. She will share her firsthand experiences and unique insights on the film’s legacy within the Puerto Rican community with Qiuana Dudley-Vegliante, an English major at New York Tech.
Four iconic New Yorkers will discuss the monumental impact of West Side Story on their lives and work, set in the context of New York City and urban planning for the Upper West Side."
www.nyit.edu/events/west_side_story_how_it_speaks_to_us_now
Plus a lot of the location shooting for the 1961 film took place where the La Guardia school is now; also the new Stephen Spielberg movie stars Anselm Elgort, recent graduate of La Guardia.
Tuesday March 16th, 2021
Join Yoruba Richen (LaG '90) in conversation with the NAACP Image Award Nominees for Outstanding Directing in a Documentary. Richen is nominated for "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show," which premiered on MSNBC and is streaming on Peacock. March 16, 2-3:15pm. www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/the-sit-in-harry-belafonte#:~:text=In%201968%2C%20entertainer%20a....
"Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s website -The Cut, The Atlantic, and Field of Vision.
Her latest film, How it Feels To Be Free, premiered on PBS’s American Masters in January of 2021. Her other recent work includes The New York Times Presents: The Killing of Breonna Taylor, which was featured on FX and Hulu, and The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show, which premiered on MSNBC and is streaming on Peacock.
Her film, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel and was nominated for an Emmy award. The New Black and Promised Land won multiple festival awards before airing on PBS’s Independent Lens and P.O.V. Yoruba won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access and was a Sundance Producers Fellow.
She is the 2016 recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award and a Guggenheim Fellow."
Monday March 15th, 2021
Did you know ...
There are 16 EGOT winners (artists who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award) and Jonathan Tunick (M&A '54) is one of them! Jonathan Tunick, Achieved EGOT Status in 1997.
Emmy (1982): Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction, "Night of 100 Stars"
Grammy (1988): Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals, "No One is Alone"
Oscar (1977): Best Music, Original Song Score and Best Adaptation Score, "A Little Night Music"
Tony (1997): Best Orchestrations, "Titanic"
www.biography.com/news/egot-winners-list
EGOT Winners: The Artists Who've Won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
www.biography.com
Sixteen people have received all four awards — many winning multiples of each trophy.Monday March 15th, 2021
Check out this great new release by Brooke Lugo Smith (LaG '98) - "Pick Up Your Crown."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUUGRXpBLE
Monday March 15th, 2021
Congratulations to our alumni winners from last night's 63rd GRAMMY Awards!
Best Opera Recording: "Porgy and Bess" - Metropolitan Opera Chorus members Wayne Arthur Paul (LaG '07) and Paul Grosvenor (LaG '09). Choreography by Camille A. Brown (LaG '97), Assistant Choreographer Maleek Washington (LaG '05).
Best Classical Compendium - "Thomas, M.T.: From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke" - Isabel Leonard (LaG '00).
Best Latin Jazz Album - Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - featuring Adam O'Farrill (LaG '12 - trumpet).
Did we miss anyone? Please let us know in the comments!
www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/63rd-annual-grammy-awards-2020
www.grammy.com
See all awards winners and nominees for the 63rd GRAMMY Awards, presented in 2020Isn’t Arturo O’Farrill also an alum?
Friday March 12th, 2021
Congratulations to Nathanya Alexander (LaG '16), who will be in the new HBO show "Generation," with executive producer Lena Dunham. "Generation" is about the struggles of Gen Z. Nathanya appeared in "Oceans 8" as Veronica the computer hacker.
decider.com/2021/03/11/generation-cast-guide-hbo/#/
Congrats!
Congrats!
Thursday March 11th, 2021
#ThankfulThursday
“LaG truly fueled my passion for music. The beginning of my musical journey is connected to this school and I’m incredibly touched by their continuous support.”
– Salomé Chitaia, LaG ’09
Please watch Salomé's beautiful concert. Salomé adds, "This concert was supposed to be held at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) but due to the travel restrictions it was recorded at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire Recital Hall (Georgia). Because of the virus, there were only a few concerts the Conservatoire decided to stream this year and my recital was one of them! I just completed my Advanced Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and this was my final recital."
youtu.be/559rG_tFfaA
Thank you so much <3
This is an unique, charming recital performed by Salomé Chitaia. Congratulations my dear Salomka 🥰🥳🎵
Salomé Chitaia ❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻
<3
Wednesday March 10th, 2021
Check out the book "The Light of Mortal Vision" by architect/artist/educator Regi Weile (M&A '61). This is a compilation of Studio Workshops from the Axiom Maxiom Drawing Center in Asheville, North Carolina, presented as a series of cumulative exercises in Workbook form. The exercises were purposed to lead participants through a 'recall' of the rigorous Foundation Drawing and Design Courses offered by 'Modern' European Art Institutes prior to WWII. The exercises place emphasis on the discipline involved in 'Seeing' and 'Drawing'. Personal 'discipline' is stressed so as to allow the skills required in discovery to generate individualized, lyrically/creative, capacity. www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578808315/
Wednesday March 10th, 2021
LaGuardia students continue to create! LaG Mag is a student magazine showcasing students' artistic and literary accomplishments - www.lagmag.org/.
The most recent "Absurd Issue" is available to order here - www.blurb.com/b/10624437-the-absurd-issue
The Absurd Issue
The inspiration for this theme came about after I read The Stranger by Albert Camus. In it the narrator states, “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world,” a great quote demonstrating the acceptanc...
Tuesday March 9th, 2021
Read a great interview with Alexander Garfin (LaG '21) who stars in the CW show "Superman & Lois" as Jordan Kent, one of Clark and Lois's twin sons.
www.cbr.com/superman-lois-jordan-kent-alexander-garfin-interview/
Superman & Lois' Jordan Kent Breaks Down His 'Beautiful Will' to Help Others
www.cbr.com
Superman & Lois star Alexander Garfin broke down Jordan's drive to help others, teased a fireside chat with Lana Lang's daughter Sarah and more.Tuesday March 9th, 2021
Congratulations to Lily Santiago (LaG '14) who joins the pilot of NBC's "La Brea." deadline.com/2021/03/la-brea-eoin-macken-jon-seda-jack-martin-lily-santiago-nbc-drama-1234706752/
Santiago has appeared in numerous stage productions including the All-Female Macbeth (Red Bull Theater), Othello (Shakespeare in the Park, Romeo & Juliet (Huntington Theatre), and most recently the Public’s mobile Shakespeare production of Measure For Measure.
"In La Brea, written by David Appelbaum, when a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half ... When part of the family find themselves in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a disparate group of strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where they are and if there is a way back home."
Tuesday March 9th, 2021
Read a wonderful piece about the photographer, author, and educator Naomi Rosenblum (M&A '41), who passed away on February 19, 2021 at age 96.
"She helped curate the first comprehensive, large-scale exhibition of women’s photography as fine art, which opened at the New York Public Library in 1996 and traveled the country."
"Dr. Rosenblum was the author of seminal works that helped bring scholarship and recognition to photography as a creative art form after practitioners, notably Alfred Stieglitz, had revolutionized the field by defying the conventions of subject matter and composition — creating images in the rain and snow, for example, or of a pattern that the sea cut in the sand. Histories of photography traditionally focused on England, France and the United States. But Dr. Rosenblum’s major contribution, “A World History of Photography” (1984), provided a true global perspective. The book was translated into several languages and remains a standard text in the field."
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/arts/naomi-rosenblum-dead.html
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian of Photography, Dies at 96
www.nytimes.com
Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form.Tuesday March 9th, 2021
This Wall Street Journal piece features LaG '22 instrumental student Lenard Glasgow, who, like all LaGuardia students, has persevered through this past year.
"He hopes to meet a few instrumental friends in a park once the weather gets warm. 'Watching the front lines, the medical care workers, and knowing that people are really struggling makes my struggle seem a bit better,' he said. www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-changed-new-york-city-a-story-of-six-lives-11615125601
Covid-19 Changed New York City: A Story of Six Lives
www.wsj.com
New York City ground to a halt one year ago as the coronavirus raced through homes and families, upending the lives of its eight million residents.Leo is an amazing student who is always looking on the positive side.
Monday March 8th, 2021
Music Monday! Check out the song "It's Over" written by the extremely talented Louis Larsen (LaG '20) and featuring LaG '20 classmates Rohit Oomman and Ashley Nicole Siriban.
Louis says: "I wrote this song about what we are all going through as seniors. We have lost what was meant to be for us, including the special senior events, the prom, the end of year performances, and our graduation at Lincoln Center. Most of all, we're missing each other. It's over. This song is dedicated to the Class of 2020."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbphqbrKaY
Beautiful song!
Saturday March 6th, 2021
Watch FAME 4.0 on YouTube - 40 minutes of pure magic! We're gonna live forever! Brought to you by Alumni & Friends and the LaGuardia Parents Association.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=py4eVqZPdB8
FAME 4.0 PREMIERING ON 3/6 AT 8PM EST - CLICK TO WATCH
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Text FAME40 to 41444 to donate to support LaGuardia HS and arts education or visit alumniandfriends.org/fame/ ----Join us to watch a remixed 40-minut...For me one of the best legacies of attending M&A was being exposed to students from all over the city. The school taught me the importance of keeping an open mind towards others regarding race, economic differences, as well as sexual orientation. Years later when I fell in love with a woman of color from North Carolina, I was prepared to embrace both our differences and similarities. That notion of inclusion was never taught in any class, but it resonated in every hallway, staircase, and on those darn steps we climbed every day. Just in case “I don’t live forever” a section of my will has designated that a portion of my estate to be donated to LaGuardia. Thank you to all the students and alumni who made this production possible, with a special appreciation in seeing my still forever young principal, Mr. Klein included. Henry Greenfeld. M&A Class of 1975. 🎨🎼
Saturday March 6th, 2021
Tune in to YouTube to see FAME 4.0 - a 40-minute star-studded artistic tribute to the film, the tv show, and our amazing legacy! Best school in the world! www.youtube.com/c/AlumniFriendsofLaGuardiaHighSchool
or lagfame40.com
Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the making of FAME 4.0! A gorgeous day where LaGuardia students were free to express themselves and do what they do!
(John Maidman - LaG '07 - behind the camera)
Friday March 5th, 2021
FAME LIVES FOREVER! Join us on YouTube Saturday, March 6 at 8pm to watch a remixed full 40-minute FAME 4.0, featuring over 200 LaGuardia students, alumni, never-before-seen footage, and special guests! www.youtube.com/c/AlumniFriendsofLaGuardiaHighSchool
or lagfame40.com
Friday March 5th, 2021
Shoutout to Lisa Fischer (M&A '76) who makes the list!
"Fischer emerged in the scene as a heralded backing and session vocalist in the early ’80s, working with legends including Patti LaBelle and Luther Vandross, whom she sang with for 20 years. The vocal virtuoso, who has a four-octave range, relies on her masterful control and a softly fervid execution that lands religiously."
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Something About You: 8 Women Who Guided R&B in the '80s - Rated R&B
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As part two of our Women Who Guided the '80s series, Rated R&B lists eight women who deserve recognition for their contribution to the genre.Friday February 26th, 2021
Saul Lilienstein (M&A '50) sent us this fun and nostalgic article he wrote many years ago about the Music and Art basketball team breaking out into song during a game in the late 1940s. Did they win the game? Read on ...
I was surprised to see that many of my M&A classmates ('59-62 ) didn't even know we had basketball and baseball teams. Tennis too. But, the year before, I got there, the basketball team made the PSAL playoffs in Madison Square Garden. I never met him , but I heard a guy named Bob Stowers was their star. In baseball, it was coach Koehler's son, who starred. In fact, he got a baseball scholarship to Columbia. Then played in the Yankee minor league system and was a batting practice pitcher for the big team. In my 4 years playing for Mr. Koehler and then Mr. Beller, we only had one year winning as much as we lost. But, maybe some of you will remember these teammates: Walter Paul, Dave Rib, Howie Glance, Wally Wohl, Ernie Miller, Tony Martin, Eddie Schiff, Steve Carver ( passed away last month ) Richie Glazer, Bobby Eigenberg, Ernie Miller, Tommy Windom and Wilbur Richburg. Tommy and Wilbur also played for The NY Mohawks sandlot team, I also played for. Oh, how many M&A classmates knew that Al Kunitz, our gym teacher, and track coach was a bat boy with the Yankees in Babe Ruth's day. Phil Rizutto also credited him with teaching him how to bunt ( an article I read in Readers Digest.
Wednesday February 24th, 2021
Register now to watch a FREE conversation with Playwright Lynn Nottage (M&A '82) through NYPL on March 8 at 5:30pm.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Lynn Nottage discusses her work and career with theatre critic Elisabeth Vincentelli. She recounts her early years and education, how she came to write plays, and speaks about what inspired her to create such works as Fabulation, Intimate Apparel, and Sweat, and describes several upcoming projects. Originally recorded in the Library's Bruno Walter Auditorium in February 2019, this will be the digital debut of this conversation beyond the Library's walls. It is released for the first time online as part of our "The Creative Process" series and in honor of International Women's Day.
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Lynn Nottage with Elisabeth Vincentelli: The Creative Process
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Playwright Lynn Nottage discusses her work and career with theatre critic Elisabeth Vincenteilli. From the Theatre oh Film and Tape Archive.Tuesday February 23rd, 2021
Thank you to LaG '88 alumnus Garth Belcon, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Moliere in the Park - www.moliereinthepark.org/, for volunteering his time to speak with LaGuardia junior drama students about his path!
"Molière in the Park is an inclusive and antiracist theater organization. Our mission is to bring high-caliber English language productions of Molière’s timely plays, as well as carefully chosen contemporary plays that focus on language and question today's world through the lens of history, to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park annually, and the online theatergoing community, free of charge."
Please read a piece about Belcon's visit in LaGuardia's new online theater magazine: lagintermission.wixsite.com/website/post/garth-belcon-lag-alum
LaG Alum Garth Belcon Visits Juniors
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On a recent Friday in January, Garth Belcon, a LaGuardia drama alum, dropped in on a junior-wide Zoom to talk about his journey as a kid from the Bronx to a fully fledged producer. He’s a part of Mo...Tuesday February 16th, 2021
Awkwafina (aka Nora Lum, LaG '06, Instrumental) stars as Sisu the dragon in the new Disney movie "Raya and the Last Dragon," to be released March 5!
www.disneyplus.com/welcome/new?gclid=Cj0KCQiA962BBhCzARIsAIpWEL27CJzfIBM6imDpDPhgDZpZH0Ncb3lqh2Cv...
Yes!!!
Sasha Aleksandra George Alexia George
Saturday February 13th, 2021
What did people think of "Fame" when it was released?
Lloyd Green (M&A '71) has a treasure trove of stories on his wonderful website dedicated to the history of Music & Art - "The Castle on the Hill." Enjoy exploring! www.mycastletreasures.com/fame-the-reviews.html?fbclid=IwAR0jlPGEU0nnTMHBQHljTCc7jI5xtvrZeRm2RZ5k...
I thought it was a terrific picture of life at the High School of Las Vegas Floor Shows.
Wednesday February 10th, 2021
"I think that any kid needs an arts education almost before any other subject, because it just kind of teaches you everything there is to know about everything in life," says Isaac Mizrahi (PA '79), who is featured in the tribute to the 40th Anniversary of "FAME." Don't miss it!! Tune in at lagfame40.com
www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/02/10/laguardia-high-school-celebrates-forty-years-of--fame-
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Yes! I went to LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and was in the Gospel Chorus. Such an amazing School! Fantastic Teachers. My Father went there, as well, as an Art Student. Love all of the music from Fame. I used to sing Fame and Out Here on My Own. 🎶 ❤️
Alyse Smerka Kamara
LOVE it . . . We are ALL going to live forever!!!
youtu.be/ZWT4RmXhlRY. To all a joyous 40th yr celebration and to all Of the Arts , I sing the Body Electric a fitting vibrant song for this beautiful occassion
Monday February 8th, 2021
⭐️⭐️ Save the date! Thursday, February 11 at 7pm (EST) tune in to our YouTube channel to watch the live premiere of FAME 4.0 - a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the movie "Fame," featuring alumni from the movie and tv series, today's amazing LaGuardia students, plus special guests! FREE TO WATCH!
40 minutes of joy and memories! You don't want to miss it! ⭐️⭐️ www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7Bnh5JkMsHLuTcwJeIWIg
FAME LIVE FROM LONDON'S WEST END IS "A MASTER CLASS IN MUSICAL THEATRE FROM START TO FINISH!" STREAMING NOW ON BROADWAYHD.ORG
youtu.be/ZWT4RmXhlRY To All A joyous celebration to The arts and to All its amazing creative energy
Who wants to host this watch party?
Sasha Aleksandra George Alexia George
Monday February 8th, 2021
Congratulations to comic book artist Shawn Martinbrough (LaG '89, Art)!
"As an artist, he’s graced DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse with his talents and is the creator of 2007’s How to Draw Noir Comics.
In his two issue run, Martinbrough throws Red Hood into a historic (but forgotten) part of Gotham that’s struggling with Gang violence and gentrification. This provided for a more grounded story with a touch of soul, breathing new life into the series. Readers enjoyed this fresh take on the character and have expressed strong interest in seeing him continue writing Red Hood."
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3 Black Comic Book Writers who shined in 2020
roliverqueenreviews.medium.com
2020 struck many but they struck back.Monday February 8th, 2021
Enjoy this lovely virtual performance from the LaGuardia Senior Chorus, performing Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Sicut Cervus." Jana Ballard, Choral Director
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LaGuardia Senior Chorus Virtual Performance of Palestrina's "Sicut Cervus"
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Sicut Cervus" performed by LaGuardia Senior Chorus 2021, Jana Ballard Choral DirectorSo good❤️🌹🌹Bravo❤️🌹
Beautiful. I was in the M&A Senior Chorus '68.
That was ethereal!!!
Beautiful 👏
Crystal Estwick-Graham
Beautiful work!!
Beautiful ☺️
Monday February 8th, 2021
Shoutout to Lorna Courtney (LaG '16, vocal) who makes her TV debut tonight right after the Super Bowl in the pilot of "The Equalizer" as Jewel Machado!
Lorna is a Broadway actress who appeared in "West Side Story" at the Broadway Theatre and "Dear Evan Hansen" at the Music Box Theatre.
screenrant.com/equalizer-2021-show-cast-character-guide/
Congratulations she was amazing
We just watched it! Brava!
Very pretty! We know she’s talented.
Yay
Hoorayyyy for Lorna!!!!
Congrats!🥰
Congratulations 👏🏾🙌🏾👌🏾
I had no idea she was an alumna... and she was PERFECT in that role.
Sunday February 7th, 2021
Tune in to watch the beautiful LaGuardia Gospel Chorus 2021 Winter Concert - "Season of Hallelujah." Darryl Jordan, Choir Director. Enjoy this uplifting performance!
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LaGuardia Gospel Concert 2021 - "Season of Hallelujah"
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The LaGuardia High School School Gospel Choir presents, "Season of Hallelujah," its first-ever Virtual Choir Concert in February 2021. Darryl Jordan Choir Di...Friday February 5th, 2021
Happy #fiorellofriday!
If you missed the Winter Semi-Annual Virtual Art Opening last week or the New Music Ensemble Winter Premiere, you can still see both online!
www.lagartstudiopa.org/semi-annual-winter-2021
and
www.youtube.com/channel/UCQXA-hbb5eMlphf6zlkCBJA
Thursday February 4th, 2021
What do Irene Cara, bubble gum, and gospel music have in common?
Listen to the amazing and charismatic Anthony Evans (M&A '79) talk about the filming of FAME and a sneak peak of his song "Never Alone," which will be featured in our 40th Anniversary Tribute to FAME on 2/11/21 at 7pm! Mark your calendars for the premiere!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9q_kWxA1IE
Anthony Evans, Composer of the Fame song Never Alone
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More telling stories about the movie Fame. Check them all out on 2-11-21, right here on Youtube 7pm sharp!Wednesday February 3rd, 2021
Congratulations to Sarah Paulson (LaG '93) on her 2021 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama for "Ratched" (2020). deadline.com/2021/02/sarah-paulson-golden-globe-nominations-ratched-american-crime-story-impeachm...
Read the full list of nominees at: www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/entertainment/golden-globe-nominations/index.html
Did we miss any PA, M&A, LaG alumni who were nominated? Please share in the comments!
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Not only did Sarah Paulson notch her fourth and fifth Golden Globe nominations this morning, but it repped the first time she was lauded in her new role as an EP on a Ryan Murphy show, this time fo…Tuesday February 2nd, 2021
Karl Kilb IV, (LaG '20, Instrumental) released his first song "The Taking" on all major platforms on 1/29/21: jwalt.lnk.to/TheTaking
Karl composed the music and produced the track for Jwalt, an Oakland hip-hop rapper. The song is being featured on ESPN’s NBA Countdown and has received several writeups, including on 50 Cent’s site (thisis50.com/2021/01/29/jwalt-releases-new-single-the-taking/) and Thizzler (www.thizzler.com/blog/2021/02/01/jwalt-the-taking-prod-karl-kilb-iv.html. Karl is a freshman at NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. You can follow him on Instagram @karl.kilb
Monday February 1st, 2021
February 3 at 7pm! Please join LaGuardia 2021 Senior Vocal Majors for the FIRST EVER Solo Voice Winter Showcase - over Zoom! During the showcase, you will hear amazing vocal talent presenting selections from classical, musical theatre, and jazz standards. Jana Ballard, vocal instructor, Francesca Gamba (LaG '21), video editor.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 872 6129 0853
Passcode: 678581
Thank you for sharing!!! ❤️
This is AWESOME!!!
Beautiful job! Thank you!
Saturday January 30th, 2021
Check out this wonderful autobiography by Elayne Jones (M&A '45).
"The story of one woman's remarkable life and career in her own words; a journey from meager beginnings as a self-described "skinny little girl from Harlem," to the highest echelons of classical music. With a musical talent and personal drive that enabled her to transcend racial and gender barriers, Jones became the first African American woman in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. A world renown tympanist, Elayne Jones is a graduate of the Music & Art High School in New York. She then attended Julliard, being among the first winners of the Ellington Julliard Scholarship. Jones' professional career began in 1949 with the New York City Opera. Over the course of five decades, Elayne Jones played with the American Ballet Theatre, Arthur Fiedler and the World Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony, and the San Francisco Opera. In 1965 she won the LaGuardia Memorial Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in music."
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-lady-with-a-big-drum-elayne-jones/1132199394
Little Lady with a Big Drum|Paperback
www.barnesandnoble.com
This, the official autobiography of Elayne Jones, is the story of one woman's remarkable life and career in her own words; a journey from meager beginnings as a self-described "skinny little girl from...I met her several years ago. Never knew she had a book--just ordered a copy!
Wow! Beautiful
Friday January 29th, 2021
CASTING KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS W/ EXCEPTIONAL SKILLS for NICKELODEON KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS - AGES 13-25 - DEADLINE SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
(brought to you by alumna and Casting Director Nef Jones, M&A '85)
House Casting - in conjunction with Nickelodeon - is casting kids & young adults in and around the New York City area who can perform visually impressive tricks.
Seeking kids and young adults between the ages of 13 and 25, all ethnicities, who live in the NYC area and who have any of the following skills:
Karate: competitive with higher belt ranking (black belt ideally). Acrobatic skills. Freeform/Freestyle martial arts that blend styles.
BMX: Semi pro-level, big air, back flips.
Skateboarder: Semi pro-level, big air, grinds and ground tricks/kick-flips and spins.
G-Tramp trampoline
Street Percussionist/subway drummer - ideally a young person who can create amazing beats just with overturned buckets.
Shoot Date: Feb 9, 10, or 11 (ONE DAY ONLY) in the NYC area
Rate: $1,500 (buyout) + 10% if you have an agent
Usage: On-air, Nickelodeon only, airs once Internet/social media
If interested email NEF@HOUSECASTING.COM with the following information:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Contact info
4. Parent's name if under 18
5. A few candid photos of you preferable ones showing us your skillset
6. Links to videos showing us your skills
housecasting.com/about/
Friday January 29th, 2021
Happy #fiorellofriday!
Today is the opening day of the LaGuardia Winter Semi-Annual Art Exhibit 2021!
Enjoy the incredible artwork of our talented students and thank you to our dedicated Fine Art students and faculty for putting this together!
Make sure to click on all of the links to go through the many virtual galleries, all found on this page:
www.lagartstudiopa.org/semi-annual-winter-2021
Congratulations to Ms. Ross who is such a fine art teacher!!
Thursday January 28th, 2021
Please join the Radiofree Birdland Livestream Benefit Concert for the Veronica Pellitteri (LaG '09) Memorial Fund. Wednesday, February 10th at 7pm, and on-demand show through February 17th.
Great jazz drummer Marcello Pellitteri and several special guests pay homage to the memory of his beloved daughter Veronica Pellitteri (LaG '09) on her 30th birthday. Appearing at Birdland with Marcello will be a stellar line up of musicians: guitarist David Gilmore, saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Tim Ries.
Veronica was a pianist / singer, who matched talent and passion to motivation and sense of responsibility.
This fund issues an annual scholarship in her name, as an aid for college tuition.
The awarded student will have to demonstrate those qualities that Veronica possessed.
In this way, this scholarship will make Veronica's spirit live forever.
For tickets: www.stellartickets.com/o/birdland/events/marcello-pellitteri-quartet
To donate to this fund, please go to:
alumniandfriends.org/fund/veronica-pellitteri-memorial-fund
Wednesday January 27th, 2021
Don't miss the amazing LaGuardia New Music Ensemble (NME) virtual Premiere on Friday, January 29 at 7:30pm on the NME youtube channel! www.youtube.com/channel/UCQXA-hbb5eMlphf6zlkCBJA
NME provides a space for talented young artists to write, produce, perform, and record contemporary music. NME musicians have always mastered the vital skills of collaboration, creativity, leadership, and responsibility. The ensemble is structured as an independent study, which is paired with the guidance and mentorship of Mr. Robert Apostle.
Wednesday January 27th, 2021
Do you have an important performance audition coming up? Or want some coaching? Or want to give an amazing gift?
Enter for a chance to win coaching sessions with award-winning composers, Broadway actors, music directors, and more incredible professionals in the arts. If YOU have a service or item you'd like to donate to the raffle, please contact lag2020gala@gmail.com
All raffle proceeds benefit the arts at LaGuardia!
$10 FOR 1 TICKET, $40 FOR 5 TICKETS AND $100 FOR 15 TICKETS.
Check out all details here: laguardiahspa.org/fame4-0/
Wednesday January 27th, 2021
Two Technical Theater alumni who spent years in the entertainment industry have pivoted and started a new business venture together! Ming Lai (LaG '02) and Nik Barricelli (LaG '07) are officially launching their food truck and catering business, Centro Percento this Saturday, January 30th, and will be at 132 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn from 3-7pm. Come on down and wish them well! centopercentonyc.com/
Nice, congratulations
puppet shows?
Good luck!
Congratulations!
Love the name and all the best!!!
Saturday January 23rd, 2021
Lenore Raphael (M&A '60) tells us that Steinway of Hamburg, Germany, has done a series of Lunch Time Home concerts and Lenore was a featured Steinway artist. Tune in to hear Lenore’s radio show “Lenore Raphael’s JazzSpot” on www.purejazzradio.com Sundays 8am & 8pm ET; Saturday 3pm ET; Monday 3am, 9am & 6pm ET, Friday 11pm ET. More about Lenore at www.lenoreraphael.com/
I'm proud to be an alumna of La Guardi High school of Music & Art NYC...formerly the High School of Music & Art. Great school!!!!
Saturday January 23rd, 2021
Tune in to see Sam Vartholomeos (LaG '13) who stars as Ed Burns' son in the new series "Bridge and Tunnel" on Epix, beginning Jan. 24, 2021!
When talking about his Queens accent, Sam Vartholomeos shares that one of his LaGuardia drama teachers said, "plenty of actors work with an accent. One day, hopefully, you’ll get to play Ed Burns’s son." Dreams can come true!!
Set in a 1980s version of Burns' hometown of Valley Stream, Long Island the filmmaker’s new series captures the post-college period when “you’re not quite an adult but no longer a kid,” Burns said.
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/arts/television/edward-burns-bridge-and-tunnel.html
Edward Burns Returns to Long Island with ‘Bridge and Tunnel’
www.nytimes.com
Set in a 1980s version of his hometown, the filmmaker’s new Epix series captures the post-college period when “you’re not quite an adult but no longer a kid,” he said.Can't wait@SuperEx#sited!4U. Shaunna
Friday January 22nd, 2021
Happy #FiorelloFriday!
Enjoy this beautiful performance by the 2020 Senior Chorus, performed (virtually) at the LaGuardia 2020 Graduation Ceremony. Jana Ballard, Conductor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uL2HCMHds&t=1s
SUBSCRIBE to our Alumni & Friends YouTube channel to see more amazing student and alumni performances: www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7Bnh5JkMsHLuTcwJeIWIg
Beautiful!!
Lovely.......M&A68
Thursday January 21st, 2021
Tonight (Thursday 1/21) at 8pm! FREE virtual event! Catch Julian Maile (PA '83) playing with the amazing The Losers Lounge on YouTube, paying tribute to one hit wonders!
"Since 1993, the Loser's Lounge has performed nearly 300 shows honoring 50 different artists, from ABBA to the Zombies, sometimes with the honorees present: Lee Hazlewood, Paul Williams and Denny Doherty (of the Mamas and Papas) all enthusiastically attended their own tribute nights."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODeCXqce-c&feature=youtu.be
I don’t know if the passing of Steve Carver ( M&A ‘62 ) has been noted by our alumni. Steve was a buddy and baseball teammate. His goal was to be a cartoonist. That didn’t happen. Instead he became a very successful Hollywood Director and remained an artist as a celebrated photographer. I hadn’t seen him since graduation. But, he was my FB friend for years. A great guy, but victim of COVID-19.
Thursday January 21st, 2021
Nora Lum (LaG '06), aka Awkwafina, is on the February cover of Harpers Bazaar! She took time out of her busy schedule to talk about how she got her nickname (from her high school friend Kim) and to make slime. Maybe we can get her favorite slime recipe? Check out Awkwafina in FAME 4.0 - a benefit for LaGuardia on February 11th 2021. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube page so you don't miss it! www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7Bnh5JkMsHLuTcwJeIWIg
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a35215866/awkwafina-nora-lum-february-2021-cover-story/
You Know Awkwafina, But Have You Met Nora Lum?
www.harpersbazaar.com
This year, the actor will star in a Marvel movie, a Disney movie, and her own Netflix show. Over a virtual slime-making session, Lum opens up to E. Alex Jung about family, depression, and the highs an...Thursday January 21st, 2021
Read a great piece and listen to a podcast with Sarah Paulson (LaG '93)!
Sarah began acting onstage in New York City before graduating high school, making her screen debut on “Law and Order” and climbing Hollywood’s ranks all the way to an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award. She’s delivered compelling work in “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” “Game Change,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Carol,” “Blue Jay,” “American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson,” “Glass,” “Mrs. America,” and Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s “American Horror Story” anthology, in which she’s played upwards of 10 characters. Sarah now executive produces the Netflix drama “Ratched,” starring as Nurse Mildred Ratched, and recently led Hulu’s Aneesh Chaganty thriller “Run.”
www.backstage.com/magazine/article/sarah-paulson-ratched-acting-career-advice-podcast-interview-7...
Sarah Paulson Boils Down Her Secret to Giving a Great Performance
www.backstage.com
Paulson’s trick for acting in horror projects like “Ratched”? “Go full tilt boogie.”She was brilliant in her SDF: A Thurber Carnival. I remember one scene where she played a dog and was so hilariously compelling
Tuesday January 19th, 2021
SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel to see and hear the works of current LaGuardia students, and TUNE IN at 7pm on February 11, 2021 for FAME 4.0 celebrating 40 years of the iconic film "Fame" and the legacy that lives on at LaGuardia
www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7Bnh5JkMsHLuTcwJeIWIg
Friday January 15th, 2021
Shout out to Pauline Chalamet (LaG '10) who is the lead in Mindy Kaling's upcoming HBO Max comedic series “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”
Pauline made her feature debut in a supporting role in the Pete Davidson-led “The King of Staten Island." She has also written, directed, and starred in several short films, including a few projects in French.
wwd.com/eye/people/eyes-on-actress-pauline-chalamet-1234689855/
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The actress — and sister of Timothée — is filming series “The Sex Lives of College Girls” and has starred in a slate of indie and short films.Friday January 15th, 2021
#FiorelloFriday
Please enjoy this Beach Boys song performed by Caty Farley(LaG '21) - acapella - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmH23JwGIk&t This video was created for Ms. Jana Ballard's Vocal class.
And please SUBSCRIBE to our new Alumni & Friends YouTube channel to see more student and alumni videos! www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7Bnh5JkMsHLuTcwJeIWIg
Caty Farley (LaG '21) - “Lavender" (Acapella) by The Beach Boys
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Enjoy this video by LaGuardia student Caty Farley (LaG '21) singing "Lavender" by The Beach Boys. (Jana Ballard's voice class)Thanks for the shoutout! Haha
Beautiful ❤️
Wednesday January 13th, 2021
Save February 11, 2021 at 7pm EST for FAME 4.0, a virtual fundraiser featuring "Fame" alumni and current LaGuardia students, to support arts education. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for sneak peeks and to catch the show. We're gonna live forever!
Text to donate! Text FAME40 to 41444 to support arts education or donate here: bit.ly/LAGFAME40
FAME 4.0: Megan Mullally on "Fame"
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Text to donate! Text FAME40 to 41444 to support arts education or donate here: igfn.us/form/Dp0-2gThe LaGuardia Parents Association and Alumni & Frien...