Educating Our Eagles - Issue 23

HIGH SCHOOL:
Cabaret
Mount Everett’s CABARET returned to the stage this year! Students chose to work as a solo or
small group and picked their own music to perform. Since returning from break in January,
students rehearsed two days a week on their chosen pieces, with a check in from a teacher. As
a class, they chose a date for the Cabaret, a format which included holding it in the TACPAC with a five
dollar charge that would include refreshments that they provided, and they helped facilitate the whole
evening. The students set up and ran the refreshments, they hosted the event, worked the backstage setup
and change-over of each act, and were the clean-up crew at the end of the evening. They designed their
own act down to what would be appropriate to wear for what they were performing.
As a result of instruction, students will be able to:
• time-manage and run a rehearsal with their piece of music over the course of five weeks.
• take direction from an instructor to incorporate into their rehearsals pieces to make improvements.
• start and end pieces on their own without a conductor.
• work with an accompanist.
• enter a stage as a soloist or ensemble, and properly bow (acknowledge applause) as well as
acknowledge their pianist.
• perform in a solo or small ensemble in front of an audience.
MA Standards:
Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Contribute to the production of a small group
performance (e.g., run a section of a rehearsal). (P.M.P.04)
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Perform with accuracy and expression
works from the vocal or instrumental literature with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6; or a
comparable scale. (F.M.P.05)
Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Modify a performance by anticipating audience
responses to better align to student's artistic intent. (P.M.P.06)
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