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2011-12: A Year in Pictures The 2011-12 Juilliard season was packed with excitement. Vocal Arts presented the Juilliard-Royal Academy of Music co-production Kommilitonen!, linking stories of protest that eerily echoed the Occupy Wall Street activities going on at the same time. Historical Performance received a $20 million gift from Juilliard chair Bruce Kovner. And Dance, Drama, and all of music wowed audiences through the year. More...7 to Get Honorary Degrees At Juilliard’s 107th commencement, on May 25 in Alice Tully Hall, playwright Athol Fugard will address the class of 2012. Fugard, actor James Earl Jones, and choreographer Peter Martins will receive honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees; singer Nancy Wilson and conductor William Christie will receive honorary Doctor of Music degrees; and authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees. More...Illuminating Shakespeare Rep Each spring, the third-year drama students perform two Shakespeare
plays in repertory (May 9-19), leaving lesser mortals to wonder, how do
they memorize all that Shakespeare and not get
confused? Journal editor Susan Jackson interviewed three
of the actors about the process of preparing for two very different
parts in very different plays: Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew. More... Attacca Quartet Shows and Tells To be mentored intensely by the Juilliard String Quartet is a dream for
many ensembles, and as Juilliard’s current graduate resident quartet,
the Attacca is the most recent recipient of this honor. Now
reaching the end of the first year of its two-year Juilliard residency,
the Attacca will present the 19th annual Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital
on Tuesday, May 8 at 8 p.m. in Alice Tully Hall. More...3rd-Year Dancers Tech Senior Production Dancers need a floor to dance on, light to dance under, sound to dance to, clothes to dance in, not to mention a dance to dance. The third-year dancers learn the technical elements of production, from lighting, sound, and costume design to contract negotiation and company management. The culmination of their yearlong Stagecraft course is stage-managing the Senior Dance Production (May 3-6)—and dancing in it. More... |
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