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Advanced Musical Forms with Dan Reitz and Miles Lindahl

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Class Description

This 8-week course will take what you've learned in Levels 1-3 and expand on them. You'll explore various types of advanced musical structures, opening numbers, scene transitions, and narrative forms (such as Rock Opera, The Tribunal, and The Malkovich). By the end of the class, you'll have the confidence and ability to break the rules -- without getting into trouble! This class features two class performances on the Magnet Mainstage.

Instructor: Dan Reitz

Dan Reitz is the musical director of the musical improv shows Baby Wants Candy, Your Love Our Musical, Vern, and Blank! the Musical. His credits include Off Book, North Coast, Premiere: The Improvised Musical and Musical Megawatt. He has taught musical improv comedy around the world including at Princeton University, The New York Film Academy, Sarah Lawrence College and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Instructor: Miles Lindahl

An improviser and frequent accompanist for musical improv teams in New York City, Miles Lindahl started playing guitar to impress a girl in 7th grade. When that failed, he picked up piano, bass, and -- much to the disappointment of his mother -- drums.

Over the past few years, he has spent nearly every Tuesday behind a drum kit at Musical Megawatt next to Musical Director Frank Spitznagel, who helped him hone his improvisational piano playing. Miles has since provided accompaniment for PopUp Musicals, Baby Wants Candy, Running Late with Scott Rogowsky, and various Magnet, PIT, and indie teams. He's also a member of Musical Megawatt House Team "Pyros" at the Magnet Theater, where he met his wife.

His mom couldn't be happier.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Sep 20, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Sep 27, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 4, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 11, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 18, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 25, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 1, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 8, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)

Show Schedule*

Nov 9, 2018, 11:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Nov 6, 2018, 6:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}