MERRY MONTH OF MAY FILLED WITH MUSIC AT BROWNING! Ninety-one Browning musicians, ranging from Pre-primary to Form II, performed in May during this year’s annual
Browning School Spring Recital series. Lucy Warner, Lower
School music specialist, explained that the boys’ parents and
other family members attended and enjoyed hearing a broad range of instruments, including piano, violin, cello, guitar and saxophone.
During a Lower School Assembly in May, Ms. Warner
asked questions of the boys in the audience about George Gershwin as they concluded their study of him as part of the Composer of the Month series. Their knowledge was impressive! A surprise musical performance on piano of
Gershwin’s “Prelude No. 1” by Middle School boy Christian Kim ’21 followed, resounding throughout the Kurani Gym and resulting in a standing ovation.
At the final Parents Association meeting of the school
year, both the Upper School Chorus under the direction of
David Prestigiacomo and the Ovation Orchestra under the direction of Jonathan Ragonese performed, much to the
delight of all those parents in attendance. Music in all its many forms is alive and well among the youngest to the oldest boys in Browning’s student body. Bravo!
LOWER SCHOOL ENCORE CLASS PRESENTS “THE HEIST” In May the Lower School Performing Arts Encore
Class presented “The Heist,”
written and directed by Head
Librarian Sarah Murphy, with
art direction and scenic support from art teachers Nik Vlahos and Zack Davis, as well as
Michael Lee ’16. The action, which took place inside the
Cosmopolitan Museum of Art and local police headquarters, was lively and amusing, with kudos from the audience.
Summer 2016
51