Today in Arts and Entertainment, we went to Gradwell House Recording Studio in Haddon Heights, NJ. We took a tour of the facility, and while it is small, they have a lot of possibilities in every room. All of the rooms are connected and you can record from almost anywhere in the building. The...
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On Wednesday, the Arts and Entertainment group watched the national touring production of Disney’s Frozen, presented at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Before that, though, there was work to do. We spent roughly three hours on campus doing service projects in the auditorium. People worked on cleaning out various parts of the auditorium, including painting the...
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Today our IL group toured the Cunningham Piano Company restoration facility. We arrived at school at 8:30 and boarded our bus at 9:30 a.m. It took us about 30 minutes to get to the factory, and once we got there, we were welcomed by Rich Galassini, one of the co-owners of Cunningham Piano and...
Continue readingArts and Entertainment, Day Two: Touring the Wells Fargo Center
This morning, we left school at around 9:30 a.m. for a 30-minute bus ride to the Wells Fargo Center. When we arrived we were greeted by our two tour guides. They led us to our first stop on the tour, which was the “hat trick” spot, where we learned what a hat trick was...
Continue readingArts and Entertainment, Day One: Exploring the Brandywine Museum of Art
Today, the Arts and Entertainment Intensive Learning went to the Brandywine Museum of Art located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. It was an hour bus ride, and we arrived there around 10:00 a.m. We walked around for a couple hours and saw an assortment of different pieces by members of the Wyeth family and many...
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