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Sarah Lawrence Orchestra
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The Sarah Lawrence Orchestra is open to all students, as well as to members of the College and Westchester communities; it is required for all instrumentalists taking a Music Third. The Orchestra performs at least once each semester. Recent performances have included Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat, with dancing and narration; Satie’s film score Entr’acte, performed live with a screening of the film; a concert version of Bernstein’s Candide; Mahler’s Symphony No. 1; and a concert performance of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Audition required.
Music courses
- Advanced Theory: Advanced Tonal Theory and Analysis
- Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony
- Advanced Theory: 20th-Century Theoretical Approaches: Post-Tonal and Rock Music
- African Classics of the Post-Colonial Era
- Awareness Through Movement® for Musicians
- Baroque Ensemble
- Basic Aural Skills
- Bluegrass Performance Ensemble
- Chamber Choir
- Chamber Music
- Chamber Music Improvisation
- Concert Attendance/Music Tuesdays Requirement
- Conducting
- Debussy and the French School
- Diction for Singers
- Ethnomusicology of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East: Structures of Music, Structures of Power
- Ethnomusicology of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East: Structures of Music, Structures of Power
- Evolution of a Performance
- Experimental Improvisation Ensemble
- First-Year Studies: Music and Technology
- Gamelan Angklung Chandra Buana
- Guitar Class
- Guitar Ensemble
- Hearing and Singing
- Intermediate Aural Skills
- Introduction to Electronic Music and Music Technology
- Jazz Colloquium
- Jazz History
- Jazz Performance and Improvisation Workshop
- Jazz Vocal Ensemble
- Jazz Vocal Seminar
- Keyboard Lab
- Keyboard Literature
- Master Class
- MIDI: Sequencing, Recording, and Mastering Electronic Music
- Mozart and Beethoven: Music from 1720-1810
- Music of Transcendent Experience
- Music of Transcendent Experience
- Music Workshop
- Orchestra Projects
- Sarah Lawrence Orchestra
- Sarah Lawrence String Orchestra
- Self-Discovery Through Singing
- Seminar in Vocal Performance
- Senior Recital
- Sight Reading for Instrumentalists
- So This Is Opera?
- Studio Class
- Studio Composition and Music Technology
- Survey of Western Music
- The Blues Ensemble
- The Cygnus Ensemble: Artists-in-Residence
- The Music of J. S. Bach
- The Music of J. S. Bach
- Theory II: Basic Tonal Theory and Composition
- *Theory I: Materials of Music
- 20th-Century Compositional Techniques
- Violin Master Class
- West African Percussion Ensemble Faso Foli
- Women’s Vocal Ensemble
Vera Wang '71 addresses Class of 2013; photos, videos, media clips available on Commencement site