Vol. XXIII No. 7
April 2008


Juilliard Joins Forces With the Met
by IRA ROSENBLUM
The Juilliard School is about to get to know one of its Lincoln Center neighbors a whole lot better. The Metropolitan Opera and Juilliard recently announced a partnership to create a joint program that will train the finest young opera singers, as well as pianists who hope to make careers as vocal accompanists or opera conductors, preparing them to work in the world’s great opera houses. More...

Small-Town Opera Gets a Big-City Premiere
by WENDY WEISMAN
Thorton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town was turned into an opera—courtesy of composer Ned Rorem (photo) and librettist J.D. Sandy McClatchy—which received its premiere in February 2006 by the Indiana University Opera Theater in Bloomington. Now the opera about small-town U.S.A. is making its way to the Big Apple for the first time, as the Juilliard Opera Center presents its New York premiere. More...

2nd Program of Conlon Residency Features ‘Degenerate’ Music
by EVAN FEIN
What happens when classical music clashes with its society? This is the question that James Conlon will address this month in the second installation of his two-year residency at Juilliard in a series of three chamber music concerts that the conductor has dubbed "Generative and Degenerate Music." More...

A Fresh Hearing for Forgotten Jewish Composers
by BRIAN WISE
In 1908, a circle of young Russian composers formed the Society for Jewish Folk Music, whose aim was to collect Jewish folk music and raise it to an artistic level. Today this music is mostly forgotten, strewn by the Russian Revolution and the later Stalinist crackdowns. Yet a full century later, a new organization called Pro Musica Hebraica, founded by Charles Krauthammer (photo) and his wife Robyn, is setting out to prove that these and other works by Jewish composers deserve a fresh hearing. More...

Composer-Clarinetist Friendship Reflected in New Quintet
by CHARLES NEIDICH
It's not a requirement that a performer befriend a composer in order to relish playing his or her music. But when a friendship does exist, as in the case of composer Elliott Carter and clarinetist Charles Neidich (photo), the music-making is enhanced. That will most certainly be witnessed on April 29, when Neidich and the Juilliard String Quartet give the premiere of Carter's Clarinet Quintet, a performance that Neidich predicts will be one of the most exciting and meaningful of his life. More...
The Evolution of a Young Ensemble
Sanderling Makes Encore Appearance at Juilliard
Students Throw Adler a Musical Birthday Party
Juilliard Students Return to New Orleans
From the Trash Can to Fashion: A ‘Re!nvention’ Concert
Back to Basics with Ron Carter
Beyond the Machine 8.0 Explores the 'Art of Groove'
Insights Into Baroque Violin Playing From an Expert
Italian Pen Company Sponsors Manuscript Collection Web Site
A Date With Jane Powell


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