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Focus! Festival Revisits Music at the Center
During and after the ideological battles of the last century there were composers who, while not producing earthshaking ideas, continued to simply make music. Forming a core repertory of American music, mainstreamers such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber (photo), and William Schuman are the subjects of this year's Focus! festival, “Composing an American Mainstream,” which runs from January 22 to 30. More...The Complete Evolution of 4 New Dances
New Dances, an annual project launched in 2003, promises ingenious and surprising results. The project matches up each class with one of four working choreographers: this year, Andrea Miller with the first-years, Fabien Prioville with the second-years, Larry Keigwin (photo) with the third-years, and Aszure Barton (who returns a second time to the program) with the fourth-years. The results can be seen from December 9 through 13 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. More...NYFOS Celebrates American Composers
Featuring singers from the School for the fifth time, the New York Festival of Song (Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, co-artistic directors, pictured) hits the scene with its novel approach to programming: a topical conceit that serves up a finely curated evening of songs from every walk of life. This year’s program, on January 13, is called “Killer B's,” and focuses on composers from Amy Beach to the Beach Boys, and many in between. More...Through Axiom, Juilliard Hits the Town
Axiom, the School's newest contemporary music ensemble, led by Jeffery Milarsky, will showcase the work of John Adams (photo) this semester, turning out two different all-Adams programs. In December, after performing at Tully Hall, the ensemble will head downtown to Le Poisson Rouge, former home of the Village Gate, where Coltrane used to play and Jacques Brel was premiered. More...Timeless Power of The Threepenny Opera
Under the direction of Sam Gold, the fourth-year actors will perform The Threepenny Opera in December, marking the first production of the work in the history of Juilliard’s Drama Division. The musical, based on John Gay’s 1728 “ballad opera,” was the best-known collaboration between Bertolt Brecht (photo) and Kurt Weill. It premiered as Die Dreigroschenoper in Germany in 1928, shortly before the Second World War forced both artists to seek refuge in the United States. More... |
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