In the past few months, The Juilliard School has received generous contributions establishing 17 new scholarships.

The School is very grateful for a generous gift, which endowed the Miriam Klein Scholarship. This award is designated for music students, and is to be granted to a recipient during all four years of his or her undergraduate Juilliard education. In establishing this scholarship, Miriam Klein's family noted Mrs. Klein's admiration for the artistry of faculty member and Juilliard alumnus Emanuel Ax ('70,'72, piano).

Composition students at Juilliard will benefit from four new scholarships. Sally Jones endowed the Charles Jones Scholarship in memory of her husband, a Juilliard alumnus ('32, violin; '39, composition), former faculty member, and composer. Charles Jones, a close associate of Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Soulima Stravinsky, and William Schuman, composed more than 90 works, including four symphonies and nine string quartets. This scholarship will be awarded to Juilliard's young composers, with preference given to students of Milton Babbitt.

Another new scholarship for composition students, the Milton and Sylvia Babbitt Scholarship, was established with a generous gift from Juilliard alumna Laura Karpman ('82, '83, D.M.A. '85, composition). Ms. Karpman, an Emmy-award winning composer, said recently, "Milton has had a great influence over every aspect of my musical life, not only in my concert music, but also in my current incarnation as a film and television composer." Among Ms. Karpman's many works are musical scores for five seasons of The Living Edens; the PBS documentary series about nature; the score for the Spielberg mini-series Taken; Rounds for Viola and Piano, premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic's principal violist; scores for productions by the Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and film scores for A Woman of Independent Means, The Breakup, and Dash and Lilly.

The James Legg Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Juilliard alumnus and composer James Legg (Pre-College '80), who died in 2000. James Legg wrote six one-act operas, including a commission for the Houston Grand Opera, and also composed for film and musical theater.

The Hannah Komanoff Scholarship in Composition was established by alumna Ruth Komanoff Underwood ('67, percussion), in memory of her mother. This new award joins the Isidore Komanoff Scholarship in Conducting, which Mrs. Underwood endowed in 1987, in memory of her father.

In addition to providing generously for conductors and composers, Mrs. Underwood has turned her attention to Juilliard's young cellists. In honor of Lynne Rutkin, who served Juilliard for 18 years in development and public affairs and recently took up a similar position at the Whitney Museum, Mrs. Underwood created the Lynne Rutkin Scholarship for Cello Studies. An amateur cellist herself, Ms. Rutkin was so delighted that she matched the funds for this eponymous new award.

The Michael Bookspan Percussion Scholarship was established by friends and family of Michael Bookspan, the late Philadelphia Orchestra percussionist and Juilliard alumnus ('53, percussion). Friends and family of the late bassoonist Stephen Maxym established the Stephen Maxym Bassoon Scholarship. A Juilliard alumnus ('37, bassoon), Mr. Maxym was principal bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for many years and a member of the faculty at Juilliard and later at the University of Southern California.

The Vivian Milstein Scholarship is designated for violin and piano students at Juilliard. Pre-College Division violinists will benefit from the Beggs-Dethier Scholarship, created through the Trust of Donald Beggs.

An unrestricted endowed scholarship was established through the Trust of Paul Berlin and is known as the Paul Louis Berlin Scholarship.

A bequest from the Edith J. Summers Trust has endowed the Mathilde R. Jensen Memorial Scholarship. Through the trust, Mrs. Summers ('29 violin) generously provided for scholarship awards in memory of her teacher, Édouard Dethier, and her mother, Mathilde R. Jensen.

Betty Barsha Hedenberg established the Jonathan M. Schwartz Memorial Scholarship in memory of her son, who studied French horn at Juilliard in the late 1980s. In 1989 Jonathan became co-principal horn of the Jerusalem Symphony, and returned to the United States in 1990 to become assistant principal horn of the Phoenix Symphony. Mrs. Hedenberg recently wrote that, "parallel to these achievements, a deepening tragedy was playing out." Jonathan died last December at age 34, after lifelong health problems.

The Yosef Porat Memorial Scholarship, a scholarship for Israeli musicians at Juilliard, was established by Israel Berger, in memory of Porat, an Israeli violinist and family friend.

The Enid and Lester Morse Scholarship is an unrestricted award established in celebration of the Morses' 50th wedding anniversary. Lester Morse is a member of the Juilliard Board of Trustees, and both Morses are longtime friends and benefactors of the School. In 1994 they generously established the Morse Fellowship Program, one of the School's most comprehensive educational outreach programs.

The Lillian Burten Brenner Scholarship was established in 1993, when Juilliard alumnus Morris Brenner ('33, violin) invited friends to celebrate his bar mitzvah (at age 81) with a gift to scholarships at Juilliard in memory of his wife. The late Mr. Brenner named Juilliard as beneficiary in his will, providing continued support for this violin scholarship in the coming years.

The Juilliard School is very grateful for the scholarships and awards that alumni and friends have generously given this year. The School always welcomes the opportunity to discuss ways to support our educational and artistic activities through a variety of programs including unrestricted gifts, currently funded scholarships, endowed scholarships, special project support, bequests, and other planned gifts. For more information about contributing to Juilliard, please call the Office of Development and Public Affairs at (212) 799-5000, ext. 278, or visit our Web site at www.juilliard.edu/giving.

Victoria Murray Brand is senior development associate and scholarship coordinator.