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 The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in April:
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| Kazuko Hirabayashi, Moss Cohen, and members of the Juilliard Dance Ensemble in Ethel Winter's The Magic Mirror. (Photo by Joyce Noyes) |
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1942 April 17, Juilliard held a "Victory Ball" at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Nearly 350 students, faculty, and alumni attended, and the event raised approximately $300 for the American Red Cross.1962 April 27-28, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble premiered Ethel Winter's The Magic Mirror ("A Fantasy of Ourselves") with music by Arthur Murphy, lighting by Thomas DeGaetani, and sets by Charles Hyman. Kazuko Hirabayashi and Moss Cohen danced the roles of "Girl" and "Boy" and the "Three Spectres" were performed by Marilyn Liebman, Juanita Londoño, and Linda Shoop.1977 April 28, the Juilliard Theater Center ended its spring repertory season with a rarely performed play by Bertolt Brecht, A Man's a Man, in a new translation by Gerhard Nellhaus. Gene Lesser directed the production, which featured original music composed by alumnus Robert Dennis. The cast included Dennis Bacigalupi, Casey Biggs, Gilbert Cole, Willie Connolly, Frances Conroy, Kevin Conroy, Suzanne Costallos, Carla Czeropski, Steven Grund, Harriet Harris, Mosetta Harris, Richard Levine, Lisa McMillan, Kenneth Marshall, Paul Perri, Tom Robbins, Henry Stram, and Diane Venora.
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1977 April 26, New York City's famous Studio 54 opened at 254 West 54th Street.1987 April 2, jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich died in Los Angeles at the age of 69..
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1987 April 24, 26, and 28, the Juilliard American Opera Center presented a double bill of operas by Gian Carlo Menotti in honor of his 75th birthday: the New York premiere of Tamu-Tamu and the composer's first opera, Amelia al Ballo. Mr. Menotti staged his operas at Juilliard with Mark Stringer conducting. Among the cast members were Stephen Biggers, Peiwen Chao, Renée Fleming, Jane Gilbert, Keith Heimann, Ning Liang, Jeffrey Morrissey, Mi-Hae Park, Francis Porretta, Michelle Shayne, Young Ok Shin, Korliss Uecker, Kewei Wang, and Jianyi Zhang.Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.
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