Arts

Students are introduced to the fundamentals in theory and practice of contemporary music production, with emphasis on modern recording studio practices. The course teaches students how to listen and think like a producer and to provide a working knowledge of the evolving music-related technologies in today’s culture and in the music business of tomorrow.

This course addresses the fundamentals of making art from conceptual development to technical skill development. Students explore a variety of 2-D and 3-D media gaining project-based technical skills to strengthen their visual literacy. In addition to projects using traditional media, students may also experiment spatially with installation and performance art.

Through writing exercises and workshops of each other’s materials in class, students expand their screenwriting techniques and develop their individual voices as writers. In seminar, students discuss the screenwriting process— from the outline and treatment through the draft and the pitch.

The Symphony Orchestra, for advanced string, wind, brass and percussion players, performs symphonic masterworks from the Classic, Romantic, 20th and 21st centuries. The Orchestra performs at annual Choate concerts in the Paul Mellon Arts Center, as well as on tour. Past tours have taken the orchestra to 12 European countries, Asia, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, Yale University, and The White House.