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 The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in February.
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| Cynthia Herman and Kevin Kline in Gorky’s The Lower Depths.
(Photo by Diane Gorodnitzki) |
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1939 February 9, Nadia Boulanger opened her series of six weekly
lectures at Juilliard. Titles of the lectures were "Recitatives and Arias
from J. S. Bach," "Schubert's Sonatas," "Vocal Chamber Music," "Chansons
Françaises de la Renaissance," "French Songs," and "Stravinsky's Works."
1957 February 7, Juilliard officially accepted an invitation to
join Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as its educational
constituent. An agreement was made to develop a training program in drama,
and the Drama Division was created upon the School's relocation to Lincoln
Center in 1969. President Eisenhower broke ground for Lincoln Center in
1959, and Philharmonic Hall (now called Avery Fisher Hall), the first
section of the complex to be completed, opened in 1962.
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1939 February 27, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the
American Revolution in protest against the society's refusal to lease
Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., to African-American contralto and
Juilliard alumna Marian Anderson for a public concert.
1972 February 22, dancer-choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, sister of
Vaslav Nijinksy and a member of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, died in
Los Angeles at the age of 81.
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1972 February 25 and 26, as part of a tour during its debut season,
the Juilliard Acting Company presented two classic works at the McCarter
Theater in Princeton: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School
for Scandal , directed by Gerald Freedman, and
Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths ,
directed by Boris Tumarin. Participating members of the Acting Company
included Leah Chandler, Benjamin Hendrickson, Cynthia Herman, Cindia
Huppeler, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Dakin Matthews, Anne McNaughton,
James Moody, Mary Joan Negro, Mary Lou Rosato, Jared Sakren, David
Schramm, Gerald Shaw, Norman Snow, David Ogden Stiers, and Sam Tsoutsouvas.
1989 February 10, Leonard Slatkin and Tim Page presented a talk titled
"Conductor Meets Critic."
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