At Juilliard’s 108th commencement, on May 24, the class of 2013 will be addressed by Juilliard trustee Laura Leggett Linney (Group 19), who received an honorary degree in 2009. This year’s recipients represent a cross-section of the arts. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and...
Early in 1936, as the United States continued to be mired in the Great Depression, the Federal Art Project hired a group of African-American artists who proposed to depict the history of black people in the United States on the walls of Harlem Hospital. The project had been...
At first glance, Chinese pianist Zhang Zuo (MM ’12), the winner of this year’s William Petschek Piano Debut Recital, may seem like your average 20-something classical musician: energetic, ambitious, and clearly hungry for the opportunity to put on a show at Lincoln Center....
Former faculty member Leonard Slatkin returns to Juilliard to conduct the orchestra in its penultimate concert of the season, on May 4. The author of Conducting Business (Amadeus, 2012), he is currently the music director of the Detroit Symphony and the Orchestre National...
