Mannes School of Music
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1916[1] |
Parent institution | The New School |
| Dean | Richard Kessler |
| Students |
775 across two divisions:[1]
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| Location |
New York City, New York, United States 40°47′12″N 73°58′28″W / 40.786587°N 73.97454°WCoordinates: 40°47′12″N 73°58′28″W / 40.786587°N 73.97454°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Parsons red |
| Website | http://www.newschool.edu/mannes |
Mannes School of Music /ˈmænᵻs/ is a music conservatory in The New School university. In the fall of 2015, Mannes moved from its previous location on Manhattan's Upper West Side to join the rest of the New School campus in Arnhold Hall on 13th Street.[2]
Mission
As written on its website: "Mannes School of Music is dedicated to advancing the creative role of music in all aspects of a rapidly changing society. Mannes seeks to develop citizen artists who engage with the world around them in and through music, in traditional, new, and emergent forms of practice."[3]
History
Originally called The David Mannes Music School, it was founded in 1916 by David Mannes, concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Clara Damrosch, sister of Walter Damrosch, then conductor of that orchestra and Frank Damrosch. The Damrosch and Mannes families were perhaps the most important music families in America at that time, with David Mannes emerging as one of the first American born violin recitalists to achieve significant status. David Mannes was the director of the Third Street Music School Settlment as well as founder of Colored Music School Settlement, all prior to founding the Mannes School. The School was originally housed on East 70th Street (later occupied by the Dalcroze School), a larger campus was created out of three brownstones on East 74th Street, in Manhattan's Upper East Side. After 1938, the school was known as the Mannes Music School, in recognition of the broader course of study that expanded the school well beyond that of a community music school, including the three-year Artist Diploma. When Clara died in 1948, their son Leopold Mannes became president, endowing the school with his fortune from co-inventing Kodachrome film. In 1953 the school began offering a bachelor of science degree and changed its name to the Mannes College of Music. In 1960 it merged with the Chatham Square Music School. In 1984 the school moved to larger quarters on West 85th Street. In 1989 Mannes joined The New School, whose eight schools included Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and The New School for Drama. In 2005, the New School administration changed the name to Mannes College: the New School for Music. In 2015, the university renamed it Mannes School of Music, and moved it to Arnhold Hall in the West Village.[1] It is now part of the College of Performing Arts at The New School, which also includes The New School for Drama and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Student in any of the three schools of the College of Performing Arts can take courses in the three schools (Drama, Jazz, Mannes), no matter which school they are directly enrolled in, expanding the opportunities for self-directed study.
Programs
Two academic divisions constitute the conservatory:[1]
- College — the academic spine of the school, conferring undergraduate and graduate degrees and diplomas.
- Preparatory — provides pre-college training for children and adolescents.
The Techniques of Music program is the foundation for academic musical study in the two divisions at Mannes, encompassing the range of elementary to advanced music theory and aural skills and anaylsis classes.
Music theory was taught at Mannes from its inception, with David Mannes hiring important figures such as Ernest Bloch and Rosario Scalero to teach theory and composition. in 1931 Hans Weisse was hired, one of the leading students of Heinrich Schenker.[4] Over the following nine years, Weisse promoted not just the study of Schenkerian analysis but the incorporation of it into the musical life of the school, including performance and composition. Because of his association with the school, Schenker's publication Five Graphic Music Analyses (Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln) was published jointly by his regular publisher, Universal Edition and the David Mannes School in 1932.[5]
In 1940, Weisse died unexpectedly and was replaced by Felix Salzer. Salzer, also a student of Schenker, built upon Weisse's foundation by reorganizing the theory program into the Techniques of Music department. The philosophy behind this move was and is to integrate musicianship, theory, and performance, which was based on Schenker's concept of the role of theory in tonal music.[6] Salzer's leading student, Carl Schachter, as well as his students, continued and strengthened the department.
Today the Mannes program is rapidly evolving and expanding in both the study of performance and theory. Mannes has revised its curriculum to include the incorporation of music technology classes, improvisation ensembles, teaching artistry, arts jounalism, film music composition, creative entrepreneurship[7] and more, all tied to a new commitment to contemporary music well beyond the tonal-based approach of Schenker. The Mannes of today includes an ever increasing number of programs in partnership with its sister conservatory, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.[8]
Notable people
College faculty
- Elizabeth Aaron – ear training, theory
- Edwin Bachmann – violin
- Michael Bacon – film composition
- Carl Bamberger – conducting
- Ernest Bloch – composition
- Howard Brockway – piano
- Amy Burton – voice
- Semyon Bychkov – conducting
- Joseph Colaneri – Director of Opera Program
- Anthony Coleman – improvisation
- Alfred Cortot – piano
- Robert Cuckson – composition, theory, analysis
- Mario Davidovsky – composition
- Jeremy Denk – piano
- Pavlina Dokovska – piano
- Elaine Douvas – oboe
- Timothy Eddy – cello
- George Enescu – interpretation
- Ruth Falcon – voice
- Vladimir Feltsman – piano
- Allen Forte – theory
- Lillian Fuchs – violin, chamber music
- Felix Galimir – violin, chamber music
- Shirley Givens – violin
- Marc Goldberg – bassoon
- Richard Goode – piano
- Arthur Haas – harpsichord
- David Hayes – conducting (present Director of Orchestral and Conducting Studies)
- Leonard Hindell – bassoon
- Anna Jacobs – Art of Engagement
- Tanya Kalmanovitch – Mannes Entrepreneurship Department
- Charles Kaufman – history, theory, President
- Chin Kim – violin
- Yakov Kreizberg – conducting
- William Kroll – violin
- Joel Lester – theory, chamber music
- Arthur Levy – voice
- Lowell Liebermann – composition, director of the Mannes American Composers Ensemble
- Clara Mannes – chamber music
- David Mannes – conducting, violin
- Leopold Mannes – theory
- Bohuslav Martinů – composition
- Missy Mazzoli – composition
- Judith Mendenhall – flute
- Frank Miller – cello
- Mitch Miller – oboe, English horn
- Paul Moravec – composition
- Philip Myers – horn
- David Nadien – violinist
- Charles Neidich – clarinet
- Paul Neubauer – viola
- Michael Newman – guitar
- Orin O'Brien – double bass
- Vincent Penzarella – trumpet
- Cynthia Phelps – viola
- Erik Ralske – French horn
- Nadia Reisenberg – piano
- Todd Reynolds – violin, director, The Mannes iOrchestra
- Lucie Robert – violin
- Beth Roberts – voice
- Jerome Rose – piano
- Richard Rychtarik – stagecraft
- Felix Salzer – theory
- Rosario Scalero – solfege, theory, composition
- Carl Schachter – theory
- Sol Schoenbach – bassoon
- Caroline Shaw – Co-Director, The New School Chorus
- Faye-Ellen Silverman – music history
- Weston Sprott – trombone
- Sherry Sylar – oboe
- George Szell – composition, instrumentation, theory
- David Taylor – bass trombone
- Terry Teachout – arts journalism
- Ronald Thomas – cello, chamber music
- Sally Thomas – violin
- Roman Totenberg – violin
- Rosalyn Tureck – piano
- William Vaccahiano – trumpet
- Glen Velez – percussion
- Isabelle Vengerova – piano
- Frederic Waldman – opera coach, staff conductor
- Hans Weisse – theory, composition
- Stefan Wolpe – composition
- John Wummer – flute
- Jeffrey Zeigler – cello, chamber music
- John Zorn – Curator, The Stone Workshops at The New School
Alumni
- Yves Abel – conductor
- Edward Aldwell – pianist and theorist
- LaMar Alsop – violin
- Burt Bacharach – composer and pianist
- Robert Bass – conductor
- Jeremy Beck – composer
- Johanna Beyer – composer
- Natasha Brofsky – cellist
- Semyon Bychkov – conductor
- Michel Camilo – pianist and composer
- Myung-whun Chung – conductor and pianist
- Kvitka Cisyk – opera singer, coloratura soprano
- Valerie Coleman – flutist and composer, Imani Winds
- Larry Coryell – guitarist
- Lee Curreri – film and television composer
- Danielle de Niese – lyric soprano
- Bill Evans – pianist and composer
- JoAnn Falletta – conductor
- Richard Goode – pianist
- Sasha Gordon – film composer
- Andre Gremillet – managing director, Melbourne Symphony
- Christopher Guardino – arranger, composer, conductor, keyboardist
- Mary Rodgers Guettel – composer and philanthropist
- Rebekah Harkness – founder of the Harkness Ballet
- Edward Herman, Jr. – trombonist
- Eugene Istomin – pianist
- Marta Casals Istomin – arts administrator
- Jeannette Knoll – opera singer
- Yakov Kreizberg – conductor
- Gail Kubik – composer
- David Lawrence – film and television composer
- Yonghoon Lee – tenor
- Ursula Mamlok – composer
- Douglas McLennan – arts journalist, founder of Artsjournal.com
- Charlie Morrow – composer and sound artist
- David Nadien – violinist
- Hafez Nazeri – composer
- Patricia Neway – operatic soprano and musical theatre actress
- Anthony Newman – keyboardist
- Tim Page – music critic
- Charlemagne Palestine – composer
- Murray Perahia – pianist
- Maurice Peress – conductor
- Eve Queler – conductor
- Shulamit Ran – composer
- Ray Riccomini – trumpeter
- Kevin Riepl – composer
- Michael Riesman – conductor, composer, keyboardist, Music Director of Philip Glass Ensemble
- Patricia Risley – mezzo soprano
- George Rochberg – composer
- Adam Rogers – jazz guitarist
- Jerome Rose – piano
- Donald Rosenberg – arts journalist
- Julius Rudel – conductor
- Carl Schachter – musicologist and theorist
- Leslie Shank – violin
- Nadine Sierra – soprano
- Lawrence Leighton Smith – conductor
- Lara St. John – violinist
- Leslie Stifelman – pianist, conductor
- Linda Toote – flute
- Jory Vinikour – harpsichordist
- Frederica von Stade – mezzo-soprano
- Susan Wadsworth – arts administrator, founder of Young Concert Artists
- Craig Walsh – composer
- Jennifer Zetlan – soprano
References
- 1 2 3 4 http://www.newschool.edu/mannes/subpage.aspx?id=2760
- ↑ http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150225/greenwich-village/new-school-build-performing-arts-hub-featuring-glass-box-theater
- ↑ http://www.newschool.edu/mannes/
- ↑ Historical information is derived from annual Mannes catalogs.
- ↑ As indicated on the cover of the publication's first edition.
- ↑ See David Carson Berry, "Hans Weisse and the Dawn of American Schenkerism," Journal of Musicology 20, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 104–156.
- ↑ http://musicschoolcentral.com/one-nyc-music-school-changing-future-music-education/
- ↑ http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2013/8/Features/Mannes_Enters_the_Modern_Era.html
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