The Juilliard Journal

Japan’s Earthquake: Voices From the Juilliard Community

On March 11, we woke to the news that northeastern Japan had experienced a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and that a tsunami was on the way. In the following days, the news only got worse as problems with nuclear power stations began to unfold. And as the world tried to come to grips with these disasters, we started finding out how the Juilliard community had been affected. More...

Desire, Sin, and Family: Opera’s Double Bill

By PHILIP STODDARD

There has been an abundance of comedy in this year’s Juilliard Opera season, but nothing quite like this spring’s double bill: Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Fast-paced and dark humored, these one-act comedies each pack quite a vocal and instrumental punch. More...

N.J.E. Celebrates Today’s Japanese Composers

By JOEL SACHS

In 2009, as part of Carnegie Hall’s festival of Chinese culture, the New Juilliard Ensemble made a great impression with music by Chinese composers who live and work in China and are largely unknown here. As a result, Carnegie Hall invited N.J.E. to participate in its current JapanNYC festival on Friday, April 8, at Alice Tully Hall. More...

‘Dr. Nic’ Unlocks the Mysteries of Juilliard’s Percussion Trove

By MOLLY YEH

In the heart of Juilliard’s third floor, behind locked doors that just a handful of people have keys to, lies a world where boys (sometimes shirtless) and the occasional girl run around making music by hitting things. Broken glass, 6-foot wooden boxes, tambourines ... the list goes on as new “instruments” are always being invented. No percussionist will ever acquire all of them, but luckily, the Juilliard percussion department has come wildly close. More...

Building in the Big Easy: ARTreach New Orleans Turns 5

When the 30 Juilliard students/neophyte builders arrived at 1839 Allen Street in New Orleans at 7:30 a.m. on a March Tuesday, there was little more than a concrete foundation at the site. By 3:15 p.m. the following Thursday, a floor, a staircase, and at least a dozen walls had been erected. Some of the work was backbreaking, but the soreness was worth it to see the gratitude on the faces of the family that will one day call the house home. More...