Mannes School of Music
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1916[1] |
Parent institution | The New School |
| Dean | Richard Kessler |
| Students | 950 across two divisions:[1]
|
| Location | New York City , New York , United States 40°47′12″N 73°58′28″W / 40.786587°N 73.97454°W / 40.786587; -73.97454Coordinates: 40°47′12″N 73°58′28″W / 40.786587°N 73.97454°W / 40.786587; -73.97454 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Parsons red |
| Website | newschool.edu/mannes |
Mannes School of Music /ˈmænɪs/ is a music conservatory in The New School. 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 at 55 W. 13th Street.[2]
Contents
1 Mission
2 History
3 Programs
4 Notable people
4.1 College faculty
4.2 Alumni
5 References
6 External links
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
Mannes School of Music (2016)
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 Settlement as well as founder of Colored Music Settlement School, all prior to founding the Mannes School.[citation needed] 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 five schools include Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and School of 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 School of Drama and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. The College of Performing Arts, including Mannes Prep, has a total of 1,450 students. The students 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 analysis 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 journalism, 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, School of Jazz.[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
William Burden - voice
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, and chair of the piano department since 1995.
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
John Goldmark - piano
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 – horn
Nadia Reisenberg – piano
Todd Reynolds – violin, director, The Mannes iOrchestra
Lucie Robert – violin
Beth Roberts – voice
Jerome Rose – piano
Jerome Rothenberg - visual art
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
Ronald Turini - piano
William Vaccahiano – trumpet
Vladimir Valjarevic – piano
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
Sehwan Park – pianist and 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
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^ 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.
^ "How This One NYC Music School Is Changing the Future of Music Education". musicschoolcentral.com. December 1, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
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External links
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