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Saeko Ichinohe and Jerome Weiss performing at the dedication of the Nagare
sculpture.(Photo by Bob Searting)
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The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in March.
1920 The Juilliard Music Foundation was established to support the
development of music in the U.S. Four years later the foundation's trustees
created the Juilliard Graduate School, housed in the former Vanderbilt
guesthouse at 49 East 52nd Street.
1963 March 13-14, Paul Hindemith conducted the U.S. premiere of his
one-act opera, The Long Christmas Dinner,
at Juilliard. The opera is a setting of a play by Thornton Wilder, and the
Juilliard performances were the first to be presented with the opera's
original English-language text. Cast members were Lorna Haywood, Marilyn
Zschau, John Harris, Allan Evans, Robert White, Geraldine McIlroy, Frances
Riley, Janet Wagner, Calvin Coots, Lorraine Santore, Clifton Steere, and
Veronica Tyler.
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1963 March 5, country and pop singer Patsy Cline died in Tennessee.
1970 March 24, John Cranko's Poème de l'extase
, a ballet choreographed specifically for Margot Fonteyn and set to Alexander
Scriabin's score, was premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in Stuttgart. The
production featured decor by Jurgen Rose.
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1970 March 30, a sculpture by Masayuki Nagare was unveiled in the
marble lobby of the Juilliard building. As part of the dedication ceremony,
students Saeko Ichinohe and Jerome Weiss performed a special ceremonial dance
from Ichinohe's suite Hinamatsuri, based
on Japanese forms with music by Minoru Miki. The abstract sculpture—eight feet
high and made of black Swedish granite—was commissioned with funds given by
John D. Rockefeller 3rd to commemorate a gift of one million dollars made by
Japanese businessmen toward the cost of Lincoln Center's construction.
1989 March 15, alumna Leontyne Price presented a two-hour master class.
Participants included mezzo-soprano Susan Toth Shafer, baritone Kewei Wang,
soprano Angela Randell, and bass-baritone Kevin Short.Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.
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