Thinking her son should study with a more well-connected and advanced teacher, Mr. Cliburn's mother took him to New York, where he attended master classes at Juilliard and was offered a scholarship to the school's preparatory division.
At Yale, she attended master's degree lectures in public health -- a degree that didn't exist in Russia.
The White House had the feel of a music conservatory this afternoon, as 120 high school and middle school students from around the country - classical musicians all - attended master classes with some of the top names in the business.
The students also attend master classes each day of the festival.
Students will be coached in jazz ensembles, play in jam sessions both in Purchase and Manhattan, attend master classes and seminars, and hear performances played for them alone by artists like Ralph Lalama, a saxophonist; Charles Blenzig, a pianist; and Doug Munro, a jazz guitarist who is chairman of jazz studies at Purchase.
Chosen from close to 16,000 applicants, all of this year's recruits will attend master's degree programs paid for by the Board of Education, and most will be assigned to hard-to-staff and often low-performing districts in the Bronx and central Brooklyn.
Semifinalists will attend master classes with highly regarded artists, who will share their expertise about performance technique and training.
Young artists of the UNICEF Children's Chamber Orchestra attend Maestro's master class YEREVAN, 21 February 20111 – World's renowned violinist and conductor, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Maxim Vengerov announced today the start of the campaign "Every Child Needs a Family" during a master class that maestro gave for young artists of the UNICEF Children's Chamber Orchestra, while on tour in Armenia.
Writer attended a master education class, sponsored by Vidal Sassoon, that drew a huge audience & there met Rosalyn Thomas & Marie Bove, of Christopher Pluck/Shapes in Hair, in Manhattan.
It is a credit to the country's cultural curiosity that the people who have seen the company perform and certainly the dancers who have attended its master classes were far more invigorated than perplexed.
WHEN David Spelman was a guitar student in the 1980s, he attended a master class in Santa Cruz, Calif., led by Benjamin Verdery, an iconoclastic young player known at the time for his devotion to new music and for occasionally slipping a transcription of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" into his programs.
