To kick off our centennial-year Past Times series of historic reprints, we look not to the School's oldest publication but to its most recent, the one you are reading right now: The Juilliard Journal. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the newspaper (which was actually called The Newspaper when it first appeared; the name Juilliard Journal wasn’t unveiled until February 1986, after a contest was held to name the paper). The first issue—with its somewhat lackluster headline—was four pages long. The Journal has come a long way since then (as the article "Juilliard Journal Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary" describes); today the paper runs anywhere from 24 to 36 pages, has a print circulation of nearly 20,000, and an online version that is read around the world.

The first edition of the newspaper that would become The Juilliard Journal