Donors

Dr. Deborah A. Abowitz ’77
Jeffrey Alexis and Christine Hay
Mr. Laurent Alpert and Ms. Johanna Fend Alpert ’64
James ’74 and Cecilia Alsina
Mr. and Mrs. Chad Anderson
Ms. Emily Andrews ’10
Ms. Sarah Andrews ’12
Anonymous (7)
Ms. Beth Bailey and Ms. Melissa McHenry
Ms. Christine Baker
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Jim and Carol Barclay
Mr. Chris Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beer
Dr. Eric L. Bell
Charlene Berry
Dr. and Mrs. Heath Boice-Pardee
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bowley
Mr. Christopher Brand
Ms. Whitney Brice
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Briggs
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Briggs
Ms. Valerie R. Bronte ’99
Mr. Ryan Brush and Mrs. Melissa Fujimoto-Brooks
Paul J. Burgo ’97
Ms. Susan Bush and Dr. Marianne Taylor
Ms. Patricia Butler
Mr. Seth Button ’97
Martha Cameron ’81
Ms. Sarah E. Chambers
Drs. Mitchell A. Chess and Patricia R. Chess
Kerry C. Cho ’88
Mr. James Chung ’89
Mr. John Clark and Dr. Nancy Shafer-Clark
Patricia Corcoran
Mr. Samuel Crabb and Dr. Glynis Scott
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Dagen ’51
Mr and Mrs. William Dalton
John D’Amanda ’75 and Kathy Durfee D’Amanda ’76
Ms. MaryLynn Dandrea and Mr. Stephen Kupferschmid
Stewart D. Davis
The DeNatale Family
Sarah Dengler ’75
Beth DeWeese ’75
Mr. and Mrs. Trevor DiMarco
Mr. Michael Discenza and Dr. Jacque Trama-Discenza
Dr. Gregory Dobson
Dr. Zhiyao Duan and Ms. Yunping Shao
Mr. Nathaniel G. Duckles ’04

Robert and Lisa Duerr
Mr. Rashid Duroseau ’05
Jo Eaton and Richard Babin
Ms. Christine Edge
Dr. Charles D. Fallon ’60
Mr. Thomas E. Feldman ’76 and Ms. Andrea J. Michie
Marilyn Fain Fenster
Mr. George Ferguson and Ms. Pia Cseri-Briones
Drs. Paulo Fernandes and Lucelene Lopes
Mr. David Fetterman and Ms. Adrienne McHargue
Ms. Selena Fleming
Mr. Andrew Flinders ’89
Ms. Arline Fonda
Dr. Rich Fonda
Scott Frame ’73 and Katherine Kearns Frame ’73
Drs. Jonathan Friedberg and Laura Calvi
Mr. Lawrence Damrad Frye and Ms. Robin Damrad Frye
James and Marjorie Fulmer
Christopher Gabel ’92
Brian and Julie Gambill
John ’70 and Karen Gardner
Mr. Hugh Germanetti
Mr. Ward J. Ghory and Ms. Anne Ghory-Goodman
Richard and Joyce Gilbert
John L. Goldman ’52
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Goldman ’86
Miss Taixi Gong
Mr. Robert Gray ’92 and Ms. Alison Carling
Anthony L. and Earlene C. Gugino
Gregory and Priscilla Gumina
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Haldeman
Haldeman Family Foundation
Cynthia Hallenbeck ’75
Ned Hallick ’68
Mr. Gregory Halpern and Ms. Ahndraya Parlato
Mr. and Mrs. Henry NG Hanson ’60
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hartman
Barbara Hays ’47
Betsy Hecker ’73
Mr. and Mrs. Shaun Heckman
Dr. and Mrs. Wade C. Hedegard
Mr. William Hosley
Chris and Kristy Houston
Drs. Fred M. Howard and Cynthia R. Howard
Mr. Steven R. Jackson ’06

Mr. Jeremy Jamieson and Ms. Karsten Solberg
Dr. Roy Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Joslyn
Ms. Elizabeth Kabes
Ms. Anna Kennedy ’13
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy
Ms. Anna J. Kieburtz ’06
Paul Kingsley and Kathleen McGrath
Ms. Naomi Kinsler
Robert Kopfman and Sharon Humiston
Dr. Harlan Kosson
Ms. Sonja B. Kreckel
Mrs. Susan Weil Kunz ’52
Ms. Marcia Layton Turner
Dr. Hochang Lee and Mrs. Christine Chung
Ms. Cynthia Lees
Ms. Hillary M. Levitt ’04
Mr. Mark Goldstein and Dr. Dena Levy
Dr. Kenneth Lindahl and Mrs. Kathy Lindahl
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Loeb
Ms. Victoria A. Lomaglio ’06
Dr. Alan Lorenz and Ms. Nancy Sands
Dr. Frederick S. Cohn and Ms. Janice Loss
Staffan ’66 and Lee Craig Lundback ’66
Maple Ave Dental
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus
Mr. and Mrs. Madhava Marri
Mrs. Kenneth Maxwell
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McAlpin
Kurt and Lisa McConnell
Mr. and Mrs. David McCoy
Lee S. McDermott (Lee Sherwood Allen ’64)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. McGraw, III
Robert McLear ’88 and Claire McLear ’87
Jon and Susan Parkes McNally
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mendolia
Dr. Mary Gail Mercurio
Mike ’78 and Betsy Merin
Jeannette C. Mitchell
Drs. Scott Mooney and Chin-Lin Ching
John ’81 and Erinne Morse
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Mortellaro
Mr. Roderick Mortimer
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Muisus
Mr. Marvin Muller, III and Mrs. Jennifer Schwartzott
Mr. Jeffrey Neable and Ms. Laural Hartman
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Neumaier

Drs. Patricia Newcomb and Janet Gillespie
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Nice
Carl Nielsen and Patricia Corcoran
Robert and Milena Novy-Marx
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Obourn
The Oese-Siegel’s
Ms. Mirel Oese-Siegel ’08
Ms. Jean M. Oswald
Drs. Ryan-Jon Palmitesso and Alisa Kim
Mrs. Julie Walker Parker ’79
Walter Parkes
Ms. Sandra E. Patla
Mrs. Julia Messenger Pearsall ’80
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pinch
Terry Platt and Dianne Edgar
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Plonsky
Mr. Douglas Pratt
Mr. and Mrs. David Publow
Mr. Paul Raca and Ms. Nancy Raca
Mr. Gabriel Racz ’90 and Ms. Melanie Walker
Drs. Amit Ray and Jessica Lieberman
James and Nancy Rinehart
Mr. Tim Robinson and Mrs. Page Durant Robinson ’01
Rochester Area Community Foundation
Neal Roden
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Rogers
Mr. and Mrs. David Rutberg
Jane Liesveld and Deepak Sahasrabudhe
Ms. Karen Saludo and Mr. Dennis Drew
Miss Izabella Sander
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sander
Sarphatie Educaton
Drs. Edward Sassaman and Michelle Shayne
Alicia Morgenberger Schober ’85
Dave and Nancy Schraver
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Schulz
Schwab Charitable Fund
Ms. Samantha R. Scott ’15
Mr. Russell Scott and Dr. Christine Scott
Mr. Amos Scully and Ms. Stephanie Ashenfelder
Chip and Marit Sheffield
Laurie Sherwood ’69
Mr. Shashi Sinha and Dr. Corinna Schlombs
The Sisson Family
Mrs. Margaret Smerbeck
Jackie Smith

Dr. Regina Smolyak
Mr. Niko Smrekar and Ms. Cara Cardinale
Alan and Helen Soanes
Drs. Alexander Solky and Valerie Lang
Dr. Hannah Solky
Mr. Paul Sparacino ’72
Mrs. Suzy Spencer
Dr. Eric Spitzer
Ms. Virginia Smythe Spofford ’74
Dr. Douglas Stockman and Ms. Marietta Cutrone
Charles Stuard ’82
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sullivan
Brenda Fuhrman Swain ’77
Deb and Mike Szuromi
Rustam Tahir and Vivian Lewis
Andrea Taylor
Tim Tindall and Erica Harper
Michael R. Todd ’64
Ms. Connez Todd ’65
Ted ’98 and Jennifer Townsend
Jim ’61 and Anne Townsend
Ms. Sarah Townsend ’01
Susan Turiano
Marguerite Urban and Linda Spillane
United Way of Greater Rochester
Mrs. Mary Ellen T. Urzetta
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Drs. Anthony Villani and Zsuzsanna Marchl
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wallace
Mr. Andrew Washburn and Dr. Elizabeth Santos
Drs. Joseph Wedekind and Clara Kielkopf
Mr. and Mrs. William T. West
Mr. Peter V. Whitbeck ’71
Dr. Julie L. Whitbeck ’81
Bill ’58 and Bobbi Whiting
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wilcox
Miss Winifred S. Wilcox-Fox
Helen Wiley and Marian Payson
Mr. Alan Winchester and Dr. Larissa Temple
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Winslow
Karen Yeoman ’98
Mr. Daniel P. Yeoman ’00 and Ms. Beth Bafford
Ms. Margot Townsend Young ’64
Dr. Xulong Zhang and Mrs. Xiaobei Qiu
Ms. Jianping Zhu
Fati Ziai ’82
Jane Hopfinger and Robert Zogas

Performing Arts

Building Habits of Mind

Performing Arts at Harley

At The Harley School, we believe all children deserve the opportunity to express themselves through music and drama, and that the performing arts are a vital part of each child’s educational experience.

We provide meaningful challenges for students who excel in one or more areas of the performing arts, but our programs concentrate on giving all students the opportunity for positive growth. Our faculty is committed to forging personal relationships that allow our young actors and musicians to discover and cultivate their abilities in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

In addition to discipline-specific skills, the performing arts help students learn more about themselves and the world around them. They develop understanding and empathy by thinking about the characters they play, the words they sing, and the music they play. Students learn to work as both as individuals and collaboratively as members of a team. They become more effective communicators as they share ideas with each other and with audiences. Throughout the learning process, children, tweens, and teens become more resilient by understanding that a mistake can be the beginning of an amazing opportunity for growth.

The performing arts help us to tell our stories and share our feelings with each other. They are an expression of our humanity. Our goal as teachers is not just to teach theater and music, but to help our students learn to use those tools to tell their stories, express their feelings, and better understand our shared humanity.

—Ben Burroughs, Upper School Faculty

Nursery-Grade 4: Lower School

Our students immerse themselves in creative expression throughout their Lower School experience. Nursery students joyfully participate daily in Creative Arts, a class combining music and movement. This dedicated time for creative development is unique to The Harley School. Building on this foundation, our K-Grade 4 students further develop their musical skills through singing, dancing, playing Orff instruments, and learning the basics of music literacy. Our students also develop dramatic and public speaking skills through telling jokes, reciting poems, or sharing class presentations at our weekly assembly.

Grades 5-8: Middle School

All Middle School students participate in a music ensemble (choir, band, or strings) each year. All Grade 5 and 6 students also take one-trimester general music classes. In Grades 5-7, students participate in a one-trimester long drama class. Additionally, students in Grades 6-8 may select from ever-changing performing arts offerings as part of Flex Time during the last period of the day.

Grades 9-12: Upper School

Our Upper School performing arts programs are notable for promoting the exploration of authentic voice and promoting creative thinking. Students in band, orchestra, and choral ensembles perform throughout the year, while young thespians take the stage in fall plays and spring musicals. We also offer a wide variety of music and drama electives, which give students the opportunity to delve into more specific areas of interest.

At Harley, we integrate the arts into all levels of our curriculum. We understand working in the arts helps learners to develop creative problem-solving skills while boosting critical thinking; and we see this every day as arts instruction helps with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness.

A recent study from Rice University states: “…arts-learning experiences benefit students in terms of reductions in disciplinary infractions, increases in compassion for others and improvements in writing achievement. Furthermore, arts-education experiences improve school engagement and college aspirations.”

Additionally, the National Association for Music Education notes “music teaches 21st century skills,” including creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking.

We believe opportunities in the arts are critical to whole person success.