Composers visit music class
October 15, 2020
Contrary to the name of the course, the Bach to Stravinsky: History of Music class decided to focus on the contemporary side of the music world by welcoming professional composers Anna Clyne, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, and Dr. Reena Esmail to visit their class via Zoom to share their experie...
Shenanigan Show shines
Emma Colacino, Staff Writer
October 15, 2020
“It’s fun to be in the H-M-T-C!” sang Horace Mann Theater Company (HMTC) leadership in a catchy remake of the classic song Y.M.C.A. The song continued as students logged onto Zoom to watch the first HMTC production of the year, the Shenanigan Show, a compilation of six comedy skits put togethe...
Kolinski: A life’s purpose
Hannah Katzke, Staff Writer
October 9, 2020
From the big Broadway stage to the television screen, Theatre, Dance & Film Studies Department Chair Alison Kolinski is no stranger to a large audience. When Kolinski was three years old, her mom began teaching her to dance, she said. By the time Kolinski was seven, she already knew that she wa...
Paulson (10) turns doodles into dancers
Ayesha Sen and Madison Xu
October 2, 2020
When Giselle Paulson (10) began scribbling dancing stick figures into the corner of her French textbook in fifth grade, she didn’t realize that the hobby would later become a cherished part of her life. Within a week of experimental doodling, Paulson found herself choreographing technical dance routines for he...
From Hawaii to Horace Mann, Ho pursues music
Lucas Glickman and Zachary Kurtz
October 2, 2020
“It’s impossible for me to separate myself from my Hawaiianess,” Music Department Chair Timothy Ho said. “The way I relate to music and the way that I have learned to teach music is from a significantly Hawaiian perspective.” Ho was first exposed to music through the Diablo Valley Hui o Al...
Black Lives Matter gallery opens
September 18, 2020
Crowds fill up Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the streets of New York. Posters in hand demand justice. Police officers watch as protesters link arms in solidarity. This fall, photographs by Julian Silverman (11), Ailill Walsh (11), Armaan Kakodkar (12), and Campus Photographer Barry Mason are on...
State of the arts: Music Department
Emily Sun, Staff Writer
September 11, 2020
The Music Department will not allow students to sing or to play wind and brass instruments in school and will move concerts online this year. Though masks or instrument coverings may decrease the spread of respiratory droplets, students will not use them because there is not enough data to prove tha...
State of the arts: Theatre, Dance & Film Studies Department
Madison Xu, Contributing Writer
September 11, 2020
This year, the Theatre, Dance & Film Studies Department and Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly have replaced the annual fall, winter, and spring productions with smaller monthly performances centered around specific themes or holidays, Chair of the Theatre, Dance & Film Studies Department Alison Kolin...
State of the arts: Visual Arts Department
Lauren Ho, Staff Writer
September 11, 2020
The Visual Arts Department will safely continue sparking creativity this year through the use of new studio layouts, individual art kits and cubbies, and smaller art projects. To prepare for in-person classes, Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly and Director of Facilities Management Gordon Jensen gave rec...
Book Rec: “How to Do Nothing” by Jenny Odell
Ben Kafoglis, Math Teacher
May 14, 2020
Jenny Odell is a writer and artist, and in this book she calls for people to resist what she calls the “Attention Economy.” The Attention Economy is made up of all those businesses that live off our attention: think social media and others. These are capitalist entities that, instead of our dollar...
Book Rec: “Overstory” by Richard Powers
Andrew Fippinger, English Teacher
May 14, 2020
I’ve just finished Richard Powers’s 2018 novel The Overstory, a 500-page-long, Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome about trees. Doesn’t that sound exciting? Trust me, it is. Although Powers develops a wide cast of finely-drawn characters whose complex narrative arcs deftly weave in and out of one anothe...
Book Rec: “Origin” by Dan Brown
Zachary Kurtz, Contributing Writer
May 14, 2020
The world we live in is full of different systems of belief such as Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, all of which rest upon the ideas of creationism. But what if you were to pit scientific facts against creationism? This evidence would be seen as a threat to religion and its creationist ideas. In Ori...
