Mannes Prep News Today

Then the parents threatened a class-action lawsuit. The students occupied a university building. The full-time faculty began rumbles about a vote of no confidence against the president. They had nowhere left to go.

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

The 55-year-old sculpture doesn’t move the way it used to. Those who love it want it to be fixed quickly.

The strike launched November 16 by part-time professors at New York’s New School and the Parsons School of Design, which it encompasses, ended December 10 after the school’s administration reached a tentative agreement with the striking faculty. According to a joint statement issued by the faculty’s union, ACT-UAW Local 7902, and school officials, the five-year contract stipulates regular pay raises, protects health care benefits, and ensures that adjuncts will be paid for out-of-classroom...

For the first time since Luna Composition Lab went virtual in the spring of 2020, Kaufman Music Center will welcome the program's 2021-22 Fellows and more than 30 alumni to NYC in person for a festival of masterclasses, workshops, performances and networking events with celebrated composers and performers.

Garcia currently serves on the faculty for Mannes Prep in New York City; Summer Arts with Juilliard in Geneva, Switzerland; the Dwight–Englewood School; and the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.

On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 6:30pm, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present Composers in Focus, a digital event celebrating Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian.