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Christie to Launch 2-Part Residency at Juilliard

By WENDY WEISMAN

Juilliard may not be the first name that comes to mind when you hear the words “historical performance,” but that is about to change. This spring, a select group of Juilliard students will have the chance to immerse themselves in Baroque techniques when the renowned conductor and scholar William Christie and several members of his Paris-based period-instrument group, Les Arts Florissants, launch a two-part residency at the School. The residency heralds a new graduate program in early music, to be launched in fall 2009. More...

The School Receives Arthur Rubinstein Collection

By JANE GOTTLIEB

In 1940, the Nazis confiscated the great pianist Arthur Rubinstein's property in Paris and moved his private library, which included an extensive collection of original manuscripts, manuscript copies, and published editions, to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. Decades later the German government would make a gesture of reconciliation by returning the seized manuscripts to Rubinstein’s children, who, in an extraordinary act of generosity, have donated this wonderful collection to Juilliard. More...

A Medieval French Romp, à la Gioachino Rossini

By LISA B. ROBINSON

The timeless humor of men in skirts and the enduring beauty of Rossini’s music come together for an evening of captivating entertainment in the Juilliard Opera Center’s production of Le Comte Ory this month. One of four French operas by the composer, the work was premiered in 1828, just one year prior to Rossini’s retirement from operatic composition at the age of 36 after the completion of his epic Guillaume Tell. More...

Davies To Lead North American Premieres at Juilliard

By EVAN FEIN

Hearing a posthumous premiere of a major work by a significant composer is at the very least a rare occurrence. However, Juilliard Orchestra audience members will experience exactly that as Dennis Russell Davies (photo) leads the highly anticipated North American premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s Symphony No. 9 in this month’s concert at Avery Fisher Hall. More...

The Sound and the Fury: Arts and 20th-Century Activism

By ROBERT RANKIN BROOKS

Throughout the 20th century, performing artists significantly informed the societal conscience through activism. From the earlier part of the century—represented by Martha Graham’s protest against war in the pain and suffering of her work Deep Song (1937), inspired by the Spanish Civil War—to the later part of the century, in John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 (1991), which powerfully reflects upon great grief over friends lost to the AIDS epidemic, artistry has spurred social change. More...