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Humanities classes give ASO standing ovation
Oct 28, 2002 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Upper School Humanities students and faculty members traveled to Atlanta to attend an all-Beethoven concert performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 24. The trip was required by the students to introduce them to the concert experience. The classes prepared for the trip by studying Beethoven’s Emperor’s Concerto and Egmont Overture. They listened to major musical ideas and techniques and studied the elements of orchestral music.
The performance was two hours long and both portions of the concert, the Emperor’s Concerto and the Egmont Overture, received standing ovations. “The senior students were highly cooperative and well-behaved. They expressed enthusiasm, especially for the soloist, pianist Awadagin Pratt, whose professionalism, passion, dreadlocks, and gold shirt earned him the accolade of ‘cool,’” Upper School Humanities instructor George Awsumb explained.
The Humanities classes have plans for a trip to the High Museum to view the French Impressionist exhibit in March and for the annual four-day trip to New York in April.
The performance was two hours long and both portions of the concert, the Emperor’s Concerto and the Egmont Overture, received standing ovations. “The senior students were highly cooperative and well-behaved. They expressed enthusiasm, especially for the soloist, pianist Awadagin Pratt, whose professionalism, passion, dreadlocks, and gold shirt earned him the accolade of ‘cool,’” Upper School Humanities instructor George Awsumb explained.
The Humanities classes have plans for a trip to the High Museum to view the French Impressionist exhibit in March and for the annual four-day trip to New York in April.
