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...eight weeks, beginning the last day of June, 1,400 children from the greater metropolitan area of New York City who feel a kinship for the arts will leave their neighborhoods each morning for the sylvan campus of the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Huntington, Long Island. Make no mistake. These aren't privileged children, and this day camp isn't "laboring under the pretense of being a preprofessional training school in the arts," says Dale Lewis, executive director of Usdan. "Society just doesn't make room to accommodate 1,400 new stars every year...
...Usdan does, however, want to create a public that appreciates the arts. Midday performances by professionals like Billy Taylor's jazz trio will inspire the 8-to-18-year-olds early in the season. And by learning an art, they will achieve an even greater respect for it. Campers will choose two courses from 34 programs in music, dance, art, theater, writing and chess. By midseason, many of them will demonstrate their skills for their peers in the same time slots the pros will have occupied...
...Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, 516-643-7900. Computer-graphics program closed...
Sunday, May 7: Lecture: What is the Use of Jewish History? Lucy Davidowicz, Usdan Student Center, 8:15 pm, free...
...student members are: Dale Partoll '73 of RUS. Joseph J. Thaler '70 of HUC. James S. Usdan '71 of HUC. Richard D. Brasington '73 of the freshman class, and Rachel Z. Ritvo '72 of HRPC. -D.B.J...