1102 | The Juilliard School

February 2011, vol. 26, no. 5

Gilbert Named Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies

Susan Jackson

In a move that will undoubtedly bolster ties between the New York Philharmonic and The Juilliard School, Alan ...More

Met-Juilliard Bride Bows

Lisa B. Robinson

The highly anticipated first production between Juilliard and the Metropolitan Opera takes place this month with three performances ...More

Faddis Joins Jazz for Porgy and Bess

Jonathan Batiste

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” This lyric is not only from one of the most well-known songs ...More

4th-Year Drama Rep Debuts

Kathryn Shattuck

When Jo Mei, a member of this year’s graduating class (Group 40), moves into the real world after ...More

Special Section

Alumni Center Stage: The Medicine Issue

Looking through a list of Juilliard alumni and the varied paths their lives have traveled, it was astonishing to learn how many are involved in the healing arts. We wanted to find out if alumni who made these choices were diverging from their original career goals or merely augmenting their initial intent.More

Paul Kwak

Probing the Performing Arts-Health Care Connection

Margaret Shakespeare

Examples of the overlap between performance and medicine occur as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans. More

Samuel Chang

Critical Moments: 7 Alumni Talk About Switching Careers

Cory Robertson

For some Juilliard graduates, there was an “aha” moment at which they decided to pursue another career. For...More

Q&A With Jourdan Urbach

Susan Jackson

For Pre-College alumnus Jourdan Urbach, the intersection of medicine and music was the ability to help other people...More

RUSH HOUR REUNION

Recent Alumni Events 2011

Adams Conducts Old and New Classics at Carnegie

Evan Fein

One of America’s most celebrated and distinctive composers, Pulitzer Prize winner John Adams, will return to Juilliard this ...More

Feldman and Kurtag: Radically Different, Shockingly Similar

ToniMarie Marchioni

In 1926, two stars were born: one a brusque, Jewish New Yorker, and the other a sophisticated, Hungarian ...More

Settling Scores: Composer Mark Snow Gives Students Tips

Kris Bowers

Wailing brass, thunderous percussion, and eerie sound effects burst through the speakers while an audience of 50—Juilliard students ...More

Associate Dean Appointed

Susan Jackson

Violist, teacher, administrator, and alumnus Adam Meyer has been appointed associate dean for administration at Juilliard. As such ...More

M.L.K. 2011: Invoking the Beloved Community

The footsteps of marchers and the chants of protesters echo in every decade of American history, and with ...More

Upside-Down ‘Ode’: Deconstructing Beethoven

Benjamin Laude

Stand inside a piano and play (upside down and backwards) Beethoven's Ninth? Piece of cake for Evan Shinners.More

Exploring Bach in Depth

ToniMarie Marchioni

This semester, renowned musicologist Christoph Wolff joins Juilliard’s graduate studies faculty. A professor of music at Harvard University ...More

Lewis Kaplan

Kaplan to Be Schuman Scholar

Alexandra Snyder Dunbar

Violin faculty member and alum Lewis Kaplan was recently announced as the 2011 William Schuman Scholar’s Chair. More

February

Recent Events for February 2011

Susan Jackson

Q&A With Jourdan Urbach

Annalise Thompson

Pure Enrichment

Jane Gottlieb

Going Digital

From Our Readers

On Becoming Informed Citizens: A Reader Responds

Faculty Portrait

Milica Paranosic

Sarah Adriance

Bruce Hodges

Earthy Cello, Unearthly Violin: Solo String Soundscapes

Jeni Dahmus Farah

Juilliard Archives Time Capsule

N.Y. Premiere of "Poppea" (1933); Dance Orchestra Premieres (1948); Damrosch Memorial Concert (1955)

Molly Yeh

Behind the Scenes

Deciding the Future: In the Admissions Department

Molly Yeh

What’s the strangest or funniest thing about going to school in the United States?

Greta Berman

Transformations and Transcendence at the Rubin: Artists Take Inspiration From Buddhism

Recent Deaths in the Juilliard Community

Robert Taub

Jacob Lateiner 1928-2010

Ira Rosenblum

Michael Langham 1919-2011

Marshall Williamson 1931-2010

Al Miner 1943-2010

Raphael Hillyer 1914-2010

Karen Tuttle 1920-2010

Faculty/Student News

Faculty-Student News February 2011