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| Tito Capobianco, former director of the Juilliard American Opera Center, with Leonard Bernstein during a rehearsal of Fidelio. (Photo by Lisl Steiner) |
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The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in December and January:
1952 December 5 and 7, José Limón and Dance Company presented a concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, Frederik Prausnitz conducting. The program included the New York premiere of Limón's The Exiles, a duet between Limón and Letitia Ide set to Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 2; the New York premiere of Doris Humphrey's Night Spell danced by Limón, Lucas Hoving, Betty Jones, and Ruth Currier to Priaulx Rainier's Quartet for Strings; Humphrey's Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías with dancers Limón, Ide, and Ellen Love and music by Norman Lloyd; and the U.S. premiere of Limón's El Grito, performed by Limón and ensemble with music by Silvestre Revueltas.1963 January 24, Le Tréteau de Paris, a touring theater company, made a special appearance at Juilliard in association with the Cultural Services of the Consulate of France. The company performed the U.S. premiere of Jean Cocteau's Orphée and Jean Giraudoux's The Apollo of Bellac.
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1963 January 30, composer Francis Poulenc died in Paris at the age of 64. 1970 January 29, the New York City Ballet presented the first performance of In the Night by Jerome Robbins. The dancers were Violette Verdy, Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo, Anthony Blum, Patricia McBride, and Francisco Moncion.
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1970 January 10, 15-17, 19, Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic and members of the Juilliard American Opera Center in a joint concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio to celebrate Juilliard's first year at Lincoln Center. Soloists included Jacquelyn Benson, Louisa Budd, Elizabeth Thompson, Anita Darian, Alpha Floyd, Forest Warren, David Hall, Frank Spoto, David Cumberland, Ryan Edwards, Robert Benton, John Mack Ousley, and Howard Ross. 1985 January 18-25, the first annual Focus! festival was held at Juilliard. More than 250 students participated in the event, which centered on the theme "A World in Transition: The New Music, 1945-1955." On January 23, Joel Sachs moderated a preconcert roundtable on the postwar decade with Milton Babbitt, John Cage, David Diamond, Morton Feldman, Vivian Fine, Vincent Persichetti, and William Schuman. In addition to presenting works by the panelists, the festival featured compositions by Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Luigi Dallapiccola, Irving Fine, Kenneth Fuchs, Alberto Ginastera, Daron Aric Hagen, Christopher James, Laura Karpman, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Stefan Wolpe.Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.
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