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| "The School of Rock means business." New York Daily News "The country's preeminent rock music school for children ages 9 to 17." The Washington Post "Paul Green is letting his students in on a secret of life beyond school: Even stuff that looks easy is hard to do well. " I'd hand out DVDs of ROCK SCHOOL to everyone in the country with a teaching degree, and dare them to match this level of commitment." NPR's "Fresh Air" "Green's approach certainly opens up opportunities for his students, and is a refreshing change from the lockstep public school approach, which punishes individualism. " He warns them, berates them, shouts at them, waves his arms, issues dire predictions and somehow gets them to play." Roger Ebert " "Dynamo" doesn't begin to describe Frank Zappa freak Green, who brings the cream of his crop to Germany to compete in the yearly Zappanale and makes believers of us all." Rolling Stone "Green is a bit of an overgrown kid, and his students seem to understand that. An odd amalgam of annoying and likable." USA Today "A music school with a Ray Davies kink: instead of sawing on violins, massacring classics out of the Suzuki method books, his students (ages 8 to 18) throttle electric guitars, bash drum kits and generally make like pint-size rockers. Forget Vivaldi; here, Ozzy rules, as do Zappa and Zeppelin." New York Times "(Green) puts them on a strict regimen of classic rock and tries to impart a little Buddhism along the way. He describes himself as tough, but his affection for the students is only thinly veiled." Associated Press "Too cool for school! Someday, you can say you saw them way back when." New York Post "Jack Black's "School of Rock" teacher can get off the stage. Paul Green is the real deal, a commanding, emotional, expletive-stuffed and vibrant force of nature who runs his Philly-based School of Rock like an amped-up Vince Lombardi." Daily Variety "Green is a charismatic and complicated figure; as unself-conscious as he is selfaware." Los Angeles Times "Seeing 15 children clad in black with matching red armbands perform Pink Floyd's classic The Wall is surreal enough, but witnessing their parents singing along as a full house puts it all in perspective." Austin Chronicle "Green worships Zeppelin and Zappa and turns his students into miniature rock gods, both challenging them with intricate compositions and discouraging their teen affinity for anything pop." Chicago Tribune "Paul Green's tuition doesn't stop at mastering middle eights: he's also schooling his students in the art of giving good quote and that rock'n'roll stalwart, the importance of love." The Guardian, U.K. "For those about to rock. School of Rock is ready to educate NYC's next generation of thrashers." Time Out New York Kids "Parents continue to send their children to Paul Green to learn the basics of rock 'n' roll musicianship, and you can see why: The kids learn a healthy respect for this madman and an understanding of both the tedium and the joy of creating." Boston Globe "You've seen the movie. Now see the show." New Yorker "Green serves as both mentor and dictator, reliving his adolescent fantasies and creating mind-blowing musicians in the process. But his edges are softened by a true fanaticism for teaching and a deep love for his kids." E! Online "Paul Green is a master of inspiration. In this day of dummying-down and coddling students, it's refreshing to see a teacher push his students to levels of accomplishment they didn't think was possible." Hollywood Reporter "It's hard not to notice how much his pupils respond." San Francisco Chronicle "Green brings his star pupils to jaw-dropping levels of performance." SF Weekly "There's never any doubt that he cares about and understands them, and for a lot of kids, that's what matters most." Dallas Morning News |  |
