Above: Jazz pianist Billy Taylor gave a presentation at Juilliard in 1990. (Photo by Mary Ford Wickham) Below: Exterior of Juilliard’s Claremont Avenue quarters, around 1950. The three-story building in the foreground is the original I.M.A. (Institute of Musical Art) building; the taller one at the rear is the Juilliard Graduate School. The two schools had merged completely in 1946. (Photo by Alton Taube)

1910 March 26, the laying of the cornerstone of the Institute of Musical Art's building at 120 Claremont Avenue was celebrated with addresses by President Frank Damrosch and the Reverend Thomas Cuming Hall. The Institute of Musical Art, Juilliard's predecessor institution, was previously located in the former Lenox mansion at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street.

1934 March 10, students from the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School held the first meeting of the Juilliard Student Club. Irwin Freundlich, later a member of the piano faculty, was elected president, and composition faculty member Bernard Wagenaar spoke on "Certain Aspects of Bach."

1962 March 27, World Theater Day, under the sponsorship of Unesco and the International Theater Institute, was celebrated at Juilliard with a gala evening of drama, dance, and music. Faculty members Rosina Lhévinne and Leonard Rose performed Beethoven's Sonata in A Major for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 69, and José Limón and Lucas Hoving danced Limón's Emperor Jones. The gala also featured the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in Thomas Andrew's Invitations, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theater Arts with scenes from Tsuuchi Hanjuro's kabuki play Narukami (The Thunder God) and Carlo Gozzi's commedia dell'arte play L'Augellin Belverde (The Green Bird), and soprano Martina Arroyo in arias by Gluck, Verdi, and Cilea. Addresses were given by Rosamond Gilder, August Heckscher, and Robert Whitehead. The evening concluded with a reading of Jean Cocteau's text "World Theater Day," translated and read by Margaret Rawlings. World Theater Day was observed in 25 countries, coinciding with the opening of the Théâtre des Nations in Paris.

1978 March 10, Juilliard alumnus Kevin Kline appeared as a guest speaker in the Drama Division.

1990 March 28, pianist Billy Taylor gave a presentation titled "Jazz, America's Classical Music" in Paul Recital Hall.

Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.