Walnut Hill School is a private, coeducational, boarding and day high school for the arts, for grades 9–12 (ages 13–18). In conjunction with intensive arts training in ballet, music, theater, visual art, and writing, Walnut Hill offers comprehensive and rigorous academic curriculum in all college-preparatory subjects. Boarding in ice hockey is a penalty called when an offending player violently pushes an opposing player into the boards of the hockey rink. ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other lingual constructs that represent language and record information, or the creation of information to be conveyed through written language. ...

Located 17 miles (27 km) west of Boston, the beautiful 45 acre (180,000 m²) Walnut Hill campus is in a residential neighborhood in Natick, Massachusetts. Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Natick Common, Halloween 2004 Natick is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ...

Founded in 1893, by Wellesley College graduates Florence Bigelow and Charlotte Conant, Walnut Hill School was at the forefront of education for young women for more than 80 years. Even as a traditional private boarding school for girls, Walnut Hill had a strong arts program. Walnut Hill was home to acclaimed Fenway Studio artist and teacher Miriam Pooke, and also counts Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Bishop '30 among its graduates. Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ... A boarding school is a self-contained educational total institution where students not only study but where some or all students may live. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English. ...

In the late 1970’s, Walnut Hill became a coeducational school and expanded its mission as a school for the visual and performing arts. In 1988, Walnut Hill became the first school in the United States to have an affiliation with a major conservatory of music. The New England Conservatory at Walnut Hill is the nation's premier music education model for high school students.

External links

• Walnut Hill School website