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Vol. XX No. 8 May 2005 |
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Announcements
N.J.E. Returns to the Lincoln Center Festival The New Juilliard Ensemble will return for its fourth appearance at the Lincoln Center Festival on July 18. In each of the years in which the ensemble appeared, its program consisted of chamber music by the composer of the festival’s featured opera. Two of those concerts were devoted to the Italian Salvatore Sciarrino; the other performance paired Beijing’s Guo Wenjing with the Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng. This year, the N.J.E. will present music by the British composer Brian Ferneyhough, whose opera Shadowtime will be a major event at the Lincoln Center Festival. Among the works on the program will be Time and Motion Study II, performed by Christopher Gross, cello, with electronics supervised by Gregory Boduch, and Carceri d’Invenzione IIb, played by John McMurtery, flute. The remainder of the program will be finalized shortly. The concert will take place in Paul Hall on Monday evening, July 18, and is free.
May 1, 2005, is the official opening of the 2006-07 competition for Fulbright Grants for professional training in the creative and performing arts. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program equips future American leaders with the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly global environment by providing funding for one academic year of self-designed study or research abroad. Fulbright Grants provide roundtrip international travel, maintenances for the tenure of the award, and tuition waivers, if applicable. All grants include health and accident insurance. Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application, must have a bachelor’s degree or four years of equivalent training/study, and are required to have sufficient proficiency in the language of the host country to carry out their proposed study or research. The U.S. Student Program awards approximately 1,100 grants annually, and currently operates in more than 140 countries. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Students currently enrolled at Juilliard are advised to contact Carole Adrian in the Office of Academic Affairs (Room 221) for brochures and important information about application procedures. Serious applicants must establish an access account online well in advance of the Juilliard deadline for completed applications, which is September 23, 2005. Applicants will be interviewed by the School’s Fulbright Committee, after which their materials will be delivered to the Institute of International Education (I.I.E.) for their October 21 deadline.
All Juilliard alumni in Europe are invited to attend an alumni event in London on September 3, 2005. More details will be available soon on our Web site at www.juilliard.edu/alumni. If you are interested in attending, please e-mail the Alumni Relations Office at alumni@juilliard.edu for further information.
In late summer 2005, all Juilliard alumni will have access to an enhanced alumni Web site at www.juilliard.edu. Powered by Blackbaud's new NetCommunity software, it will contain many new and invaluable resources to help you in your career and your life. All alumni for whom we have current mailing addresses will receive information in midsummer for the exact launch date and individual logon information. The new site will feature:
Alumni Travel Benefits BackStage Bed, Bath & Beyond Cosi Dance Magazine Danskin Equinox Jazz Times The Juilliard Bookstore Liberty Mutual Local 802 American Federation of Musicians L’Occitane MAC Cosmetics Musical America Nelnet
The Juilliard Journal has won first place with special merit in the 2005 American Scholastic Press Association's annual newspaper contest. In the words of the judges, The Journal is "an outstanding overall example of a scholastic publication in format, content, and presentation" and exhibits "superior academic excellence ... painstakingly produced." This is the second time that The Journal has won first place with special merit in the association’s contest, having received the award in 2003, along with a prize for outstanding special feature, for the October 2002 feature "September 11th and the Arts—Catastrophe as Muse."
Perhaps you’re organizing concerts in homeless shelters ... traveling to an exotic location to teach dance ... or starting a theater company in some out-of-the-way village. The Juilliard Journal will run short articles in the September and/or October issues about students’ unusual summer experiences, space permitting. If you think your plans qualify, please call Jane Rubinsky (ext. 341).
The Office of Student Affairs invites students, staff, and faculty to attend the annual Spring Picnic on Friday, May 6, on the Milstein Plaza. The fun begins at noon! Enjoy food, games, and entertainment until 3 p.m. (In the event of rain, the picnic will move indoors to the Marble Lobby.) The O.S.A. is looking for Juilliard students to perform as part of the annual Spring Picnic Talent Show. Stop by Room 219 or call (212) 799-5000, ext. 200, for more details.
The Office of Career Development’s Lunch and Learn series wraps up this month, with three more workshops designed to help graduating students with their career plans. All are at noon, and include free pizza! Sunday, May 1 (noon to 4 p.m.), 11th-floor Lounge Personality and Career Choice Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Tuesday, May 3, Room 241 Résumé Tune-Up Thursday, May 5, Room 241 Health Insurance for Artists
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