A readers will notice some changes in The Juilliard Journal this year, and might wonder where some of their favorite regular features have gone. The School's 2005-06 centennial season called for some special observance within our already crowded pages, and without abandoning all our usual monthly columns, we realized that "tweaking" a few of them afforded the opportunity to celebrate this momentous year.

The Juilliard Archives—from which we unearth the monthly historical tidbits that have filled the Time Capsule for the past 10 years—also houses a collection of the varied internal periodicals that Juilliard has produced from 1914 onward. We thought that reprinting a sampling from them—drawn from a different publication each month, ranging from The Baton of the 1920s and early '30s to The Juilliard Review of the '50s and early '60s to the newspaper we now know as The Journal—would provide a unique snapshot of the School's culture and atmosphere at various points in its history. So this season we offer Past Times, the first of which can be found here. The regular Time Capsule will return next fall.

Our popular Juilliard Portraits series, offering personal glimpses into the lives of staff and faculty members, takes a centennial turn this year as we highlight those who have been at Juilliard since "way back when" and ask them to comment on the changes they've seen here over the years, and how their own perspectives have shifted as a result. Kicking off this season's series are portraits of Liberal Arts faculty member Jo Sarzotti and Recording Department director Robert Taibbi—they can be found here.

Alumni Spotlights (in its traditional format) is on hiatus this year. In its place is Alumni Reflections, a column in which alumni from various decades share memories of formative experiences from their Juilliard days, and reflect upon what aspects of their Juilliard education have shaped their lives and careers. (The first one features violinist Ani Kavafian.) The alumni who will be featured throughout the year are among those who responded to a questionnaire sent last spring; we thank them for their replies.

Finally, in honor of the centennial, we have commissioned a series of articles examining the significance of Juilliard's contributions to various aspects of the arts over the years. Look for the special "J" logo that highlights these and other articles with a centennial focus, as we mark the beginning of The Juilliard School's second century.