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The Houston Opera Studio has provided dozens of world-class opera singers [5] with early professional training and experience. From its inception in 1977 until 1992, the Studio was a partnership between the University of Houston School of Music and Houston Grand Opera; it is now administered solely by HGO. [6]
The Shepherd School has existed in name since 1950, with an $8 million endowment by Sallie Shepherd Perkins in honor of her grandfather, Houston banker Benjamin A. Shepherd. [3] It was opened in 1974 under the deanship of conductor and composer Samuel Jones. [4] The school's building, Alice Pratt Brown Hall, was dedicated on October 4, 1991. [3]
The school is divided into six departments: instrumental music, vocal music, dance, theater (including technical theater), visual arts, and creative writing. HSPVA was placed as the top school in the Greater Houston Area by Children at Risk 's 2009 annual ranking of high schools, [ 2 ] and it has continued to be ranked as an "A" grade or higher ...
The Humphreys School of Musical Theatre (HSMT) provides instruction and stage experience for more than 1,700 students annually, offering year-round programs through both open-enrollment and audition-based classes. In 2016, Dave Clemmons became the newly appointed Dean of School for HSMT.
Kashmere High School is located in a predominantly black neighborhood known as Kashmere Gardens in Houston, Texas.Music teacher Conrad O. Johnson attended an Otis Redding concert in 1967 and was inspired to translate the style of the concert into a program he could sustain at the high school in order to create opportunities for his student musicians, and thus the Kashmere Stage Band was born.
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) is an association of post-secondary music schools in the United States and the principal U.S. accreditor for higher education in music. It was founded on October 20, 1924, and is based in Reston, Virginia. The association's accreditation of schools of music began in 1939.
The School of Theatre and Dance is a department within the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston. [1] The School offers both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts programs, including a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting, stage management, technical theatre, theatre education and a joint degree in both playwrighting and dramaturgy; all at the undergraduate ...
The hall originally sat 1,680, and was intended to host similar events as the Houston Music Hall which was the main music venue for the city at the time. [2] The hall was named in honor of Ezekiel W. Cullen, a congressman for the Republic of Texas , and the grandfather of then University of Houston Regent Hugh Roy Cullen who was the principal ...