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 The following events occurred in Juilliard's history in March:
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| Stephen Sondheim at Juilliard in 1985. (Photo by Peter Schaaf) |
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1952 March 23-29, the Sixth Annual Symposium of the International Federation of Music Students convened at Juilliard. Speakers included Martha Graham, John Cage, William Schuman, Gustave Reese, Julius Rudel, Roy Harris, Ernst Krenek, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Other symposium highlights were performances by the Juilliard String Quartet, Lonny Epstein, Louis Persinger, David Tudor, the Juilliard Jazz Band, the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Jean Morel, and the Juilliard Opera Theater, which gave the New York premiere of Stravinsky's Mavra (two-piano version by Soulima Stravinsky) and the U.S. premiere of Milhaud's The Play of Robin and Marion. Experimental films were also screened as part of the proceedings. The Federation was founded in 1946 by student composers from Juilliard, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, and the Yale University School of Music.
1962 March 12, a concert of music by Henry Cowell commemorating his 65th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his first public performance was presented in the Juilliard Concert Hall by Juilliard, the Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the Contemporary Music Society, and the American Composers Alliance. The program featured the New York premiere of Symphony No. 7, four early piano works performed by Cowell, How Old Is Song? with soprano Dorothy Maynor, Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2 for String Orchestra, Sinfonietta, and Suite for Woodwind Quintet. Jorge Mester conducted a chamber orchestra from Juilliard. The event was organized by colleagues of Cowell including Hugo Weisgall, William Schuman, Avery Claflin, Otto Luening, William Mitchell, Douglas Moore, Virgil Thomson, and Edgar Varèse.
1962 March 4, Martha Graham's Phaedra, set to music by Robert Starer, was premiered in New York with dancers Graham, Paul Taylor, Bertram Ross, Ethel Winter, and Helen McGehee.1985 March 21 marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach.
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1971 March 26 and 28, the Juilliard American Opera Center premiered The Losers by Harold Farberman with a libretto by Barbara Fried. Commissioned by Juilliard, The Losers is an opera about a motorcycle gang in California. The composer conducted the production under the direction of John Houseman with choreography by Patricia Birch. Among the cast members were Barbara Hendricks, John Seabury, Robert Benton, Frank Spoto, Lenus Carlson, Barbara Martin, Norman Snow, and Christine Baranski.1985 March 15, Stephen Sondheim presented a master class in music theater.Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.
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