Dancing the Darker Side of Jazz By CAROLYN APPEL The Dance Division’s 50th anniversary kicks into high gear this month. Carolyn Appel talks with choreographer and alumnus Robert Battle (left) about Base Line, his new work with music by Goines, a highlight of this month’s Spring Dance concert. Also in this issue, previews of Lar Lubovitch’s Thus Is All and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 7. More...

Gods or Monsters? Juilliard Opera Workshop Presents Semele By CHRISTOPHER MOSSEY Eccles’s opera Semele predates Handel’s better-known version by some 35 years. Considered too lascivious a story for opera in 1744, Handel wrote it as an oratorio, although today the work is often staged. Those able to attend the Juilliard Opera Workshop’s performances of Eccles’s Semele will delight in comparing the two vastly different settings of the same text. More...

Bringing It All Together: The Drama Division’s Third-Year Projects By JULIA CHO The Drama Division’s spring season begins with three exciting collaborations among the program’s actors, playwriting fellows, and directing fellows. But instead of fully mounted productions as in past years, these plays—Tanya Barfield’s Pecan Tan, Francine Volpe’s Appreciation, and two adaptations of works by Chekhov—will have minimal costumes, lights, and sets, in order to emphasize the work-in-process nature of each project. More...

Kurt Masur: An Appreciation By LISA ROBINSON As Masur’s tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic winds down, the maestro returns to Juilliard to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra, his seventh such appearance at the School. Lisa Robinson looks back at Mr. Masur’s accomplishments as leader of our neighboring orchestra across the plaza. Plus, Ira Rosenblum appraises a new 10-CD set, Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic. More...

The Juilliard Quartet: Musical Magic, New York Style By BLAISE MAGNIERE Fifty-five years old and still going strong, the Juilliard String Quartet remains one of the most vital voices in chamber music today. Their approach to music-making seems connected to New York City itself: down-to-earth, with an intellectual edge, and an immediate and intense emotional impact that never becomes shallow. More...

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