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Trips on Three Continents Give Students Taste of Life Outside the United States For many, summer is a time for world travel and exploration. This past summer, Juilliard dancers headed to Peru, a quintet of jazz students played in Costa Rica, and one voice student had a life-altering journey in Germany. In The Journal’s annual roundup of summer-activities, they share their experiences.
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by Aaron Diehl
Exposure to vibrant cultures, great hospitality, soulful people, and delicious home cooking contribute to the recipe for a great jazz musician. Another part is give-and-take—learning how to cooperate with each other, personally and musically, so that everyone’s idea of how to play comes together to form a nucleus of swing. Costa Rica, where the Juilliard Jazz Quintet spent a week at the end of May, was perfect for finding these ingredients. More... |
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by Zulema Quintáns
In early June, members of the Juilliard Dance Ensemble had the exciting opportunity of going on a two-week performance tour in Peru, the land of the Incas and Vargas Llosa. Over the two weeks, we visited three cities, made new friends, learned some Spanish and, most importantly, learned to distinguish llamas from alpacas. The best way to tell this story is to start from the beginning. More... |
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by Chad Sloan
After many years of listening to everyone’s accounts of their European experiences, it was now my turn. I was so excited to finally get to have the life-altering journey that everyone had always told me about. This summer I visited Berlin and some of its surrounding cities in Germany for five weeks, courtesy of the Vocal Arts Department’s Lucrezia Bori Award. More... |
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