Music and Art 69

Steve Mencher
  • 5.0 (2)
  • Documentary

The young people who graduated from New York's High School of Music and Art in 1969 have changed music and the visual arts in myriad ways. They've also become doctors, lawyers, movie producers, midwives and teachers. They get together regularly to remember their high school days, and to enjoy relationships built and nurtured over a lifetime. We'll meet some of them who gathered in 2023, and we'll pursue some mysteries. Anybody who has ever attended high school should enjoy these stories.

Episodes

  1. 11/22/2024

    Jan Nigro and His Sister, Laura Nyro

    In this episode we pay a brief tribute to High School of Music and Art grad Laura Nyro, and do a deep dive on the career of her brother Jan Nigro, M & A class of 1968, who created and nurtured a project called Vitamin L with his wife Janis for more than three decades.

    Jan Nigro and His Sister, Laura Nyro

  2. 07/17/2024

    Welcome to the Titanic, Captain

    The Class of 1969 at the High School of Music and Art experienced a senior year unlike any before or since. The school year began in the chaos of a teachers' strike, and ended at our graduation in Carnegie Hall, as we sped into uncertain futures. At the helm was the youngest principal to ever take over a New York City high school, Richard A. Klein. Mr. Klein died on June 27, 2024, at the age of 94. We interviewed him less than 3 weeks before his death, and he remembered us well.

    Welcome to the Titanic, Captain

  3. 06/19/2024

    We Remember a Lost Classmate, and Find Our Principal

    Host Steve Mencher remembers an afternoon in Riverside Park with Pablo Frank and other friends. Elliot Gertel and Margery Meadow schmooze, and our 94-year-old principal makes an appearance.

  4. 06/14/2024

    Music and Art Gets Its Start

    We delve into the history of M&A. We talk to a classmate about the friendships that have sustained her for 50+ years, and we meet a pop star who started her high school days at the castle.

  5. 06/03/2024

    Music & Art 69, We Begin

    Why listen to a podcast about a group of kids that graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1969? Well, because you also went to high school and formed lifelong relationships with adolescents who grew to be adults. Plus, these kids were creative teens growing up in New York City, and most kept that mojo going for more than 50 years. In some ways, this podcast is by and for us. But it's constructed to welcome everyone by producer and host Steve Mencher.

  • 5 Episodes

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About

The young people who graduated from New York's High School of Music and Art in 1969 have changed music and the visual arts in myriad ways. They've also become doctors, lawyers, movie producers, midwives and teachers. They get together regularly to remember their high school days, and to enjoy relationships built and nurtured over a lifetime. We'll meet some of them who gathered in 2023, and we'll pursue some mysteries. Anybody who has ever attended high school should enjoy these stories.

Information

  • Creator
    Steve Mencher
  • Years Active
    2024
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Steve Mencher
  • Show Website
    Music and Art 69