Over the years, Christensen has seen many students go on to find success in music after they graduate. Hayes singing with Fieldston Upper students at Founder’s Day For many students, learning from teachers with passion and vision is what inspires them to pursue their own career in the music industry.
SONGS FROM PITCHPERFECT PROFESSIONAL
The newer faculty members have invigorated their programs with fresh points of view, such as Yucel’s experience in professional orchestras around the world and Gilley’s time spent as one of 10 band directors at a program in Texas with an 800 member marching band.
This may come in the form of an opera production led by Hayes string quartets played by the Manhattan String Quartet that were composed by students in Currie’s composition class or learning from Latzky about his recent sabbatical studying drumming in Ghana, Morocco, and South Africa. No matter their tenure, the music faculty brings a wealth of experience, a dedication to creativity, and a commitment to challenging their students. Many of those teachers have been at ECFS for over 20 years, including Russell Currie, Kathleen Hayes, and Scott Latzky, while others, like Eric Gilley, John Lowery, Jonathan Faiman, and Gizen Yucel, are newer to the School. Christensen says that he’s worked to hire people who are not only passionate about music, but who also have a clear vision of how they want to run their programs. That kind of expansive programming - with 700 students coming through the department each week - keeps the music faculty of eight teachers busy. “We put on an opera each year, there are choruses and chamber music, classes in film scoring and music appreciation, percussion ensembles, electronic music - you just don’t find this kind of music program, even at other private schools.” Christensen conducting the senior jazz ensemble at the 2022 Commencement Dating back to the early 1970s, it was one of the first established high school jazz programs in the country and there are currently seven jazz bands across Fieldston Middle and Upper - but it’s the breadth of the music programs offered that Christensen says is what makes the School special. “I’ve been the Fieldston Upper jazz band director and woodwind teacher, taught in City Semester and for interdisciplinary courses in history, and been an active part of Fieldston Middle band classes,” he says, although his primary job is leading the jazz band.įor Christensen, the jazz program was one of the things that drew him to the School. “I grew up in the suburban public school system in California and this environment - I didn’t even know this kind of school existed.” His part-time role grew to full-time, and in 2004, he became the chair of the music department.
After applying to a listing in “The New York Times” careers and education section for a part-time music teacher position, Christensen visited the Fieldston campus for his interview and was surprised at what he found. So I hope this might be interesting to some people here, whether you've read the book or are just curious about a cappella groups that are like the fictional groups in the movie.For 30 years, Tom Christensen, Music Teacher and Music Department Chair, has been inspiring a love of music in his students at Fieldston. So I decided to do some digging and this 8tracks playlist is the result-it's a collection of a cappella covers that were either specifically mentioned in the book or in a few cases just a miscellaneous song pick from a group talked about in the book (with the relevant excerpt from the book in the annotations for each to show why it was included). Which seems unfortunate because a lot of the groups in the book do put out albums and it is actually possible to hear what their renditions of these songs sounded like (or, in some cases, the book is even referring specifically to the group recording a song for their album). If you haven't looked into it, is basically a collection of anecdotes about college a cappella drama and it doesn't generally have a very direct relation to the plot of the movie, though here and there it will dawn on you-oh! That's like that character in the movie! It was entertaining regardless, other than the fact that so much of it is the author trying to describe performances of songs to you.
SONGS FROM PITCHPERFECT MOVIE
I picked up the Pitch Perfect book a while back (the one that the movie is "loosely adapted from").
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