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 The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in February:
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| José Limón (left) with Let's Take a Trip co-stars Pud Flanagan and Ginger MacManus, Kevin Bruce Carlisle (left, kneeling), and Juilliard dancers. (Photo by CBS Television) |
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1914 February 9, the first public recital given by students and graduates of the Institute of Musical Art was held in Aeolian Hall. The New York Symphony Society Orchestra participated in the program that included Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major as well as works by Weber, Verdi, and Paderewski. Soloists were Elenore Altmann, Elias Breeskin, Lillian Eubank, Samuel Gardner, Sascha Jacobsen, Helen Jeffrey, and Rhea Silberstein.
1957 February 3, CBS Television filmed an episode of its Let's Take a Trip educational program at Juilliard, hosted by Sonny Fox and child co-stars Ginger MacManus and Pud Flanagan. The episode featured demonstrations and discussions of modern dance by José Limón and Dance Company, the Juilliard Dance Theater directed by Doris Humphrey, Patricia Birsh, and students from the Dance Department and Preparatory Division. (During that time, the Preparatory Division offered instruction in dance and music to students from the age of 6 through high school.) Excerpts of Humphrey's Ritmo Jondo (music by Carlos Surinach) and Kevin Bruce Carlisle's Circus Reflections (music by Aaron Copland) were performed.
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1914 February 13, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded at the Hotel Claridge in New York. Victor Herbert was its first director.1957 February 7, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 7 in E-flat, reconstructed by Semyon Bogatyryev from the composer's discarded sketches, was premiered in Moscow.
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1962 February 15-16, the Juilliard Opera Theater presented the world premiere of Vittorio Giannini's Rehearsal Call. Commissioned by the Juilliard Musical Foundation, the three-act comedy based on Francis Swann's play Out of the Frying Pan concerns a group of young actors struggling for success in New York. Frederic Cohen staged the production, and Frederic Waldman conducted the cast of students and alumni including David Bender, Enrico Di Giuseppe, Geraldine Festante, Ronald Freed, William Griffith, Lorna Haywood, Jenny Hudson, James Justice, George Pollock, Paul Ukena, Meredith Zara, and Marilyn Zschau.1978 February 24, Academy-award winner Beatrice Straight appeared as a guest speaker in the Drama Division.Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.
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