music

NuVu students presented their final projects for the Music and the City studio today before an audience of classmates, the NuVu coaches and guest experts from MIT.
Using software like Drawdio and Scratch, and combining electrical circuits, duct tape, copper strips, audio components, infared LEDs, and a Wii remote, they made a musical sounds with some [...]

This term, Beaver has been piloting the NuVu program (pronounced “new view”), a one-term opportunity for upper school students to work on the MIT campus with MIT and Harvard PhD students who act as coaches in a design studio setting. “The program focuses on hands-on problem solving, encourages an inventive culture, promotes peer teaching and [...]

Inspired by the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Beaver’s chamber music director Joanna Goldstein devised a novel way to challenge her upper school student-musicians to “reach for the gold.” Ms. Goldstein turned the group’s annual House Concert into the “Chamber Olympics,” complete with professional judges and gold, silver and bronze medals for the participants at [...]

On Thursday, November 19, Beaver’s Black Box Theater became the home of the fall Jazz Cafe. Under the leadership of teachers Ana Norgaard and Ed Nicholson, the jazz bands thrilled a packed house. Recordings of the sophomore and senior bands are posted below as MP3 files. Enjoy!
Sophomore Jazz Band

Equinox
Europa
Superstition

Senior Jazz Band

Jody Grind
Manteca
Wind Cries Mary

Student’s in Robin Neal’s Local Living Writers class have completed the lyrics to one of two melodies provided by singer-songwriter Alastair Mook. Mook visited the class in early October to share his writing process and inspiration. (See the original mashUp post.)
Here is Mr. Neal’s assignment:
Alastair urged us to play with the sound of language and [...]