One Brahms Symphony, Hold the Vibrato By DANIEL ALFRED WACHS Sir Roger Norrington is an expert on, and passionate proponent of, non-vibrato orchestral playing. So when he conducts Brahms’s First Symphony in his first concert with the Juilliard Orchestra on December 6 at Carnegie Hall, don’t expect big, rich, Hollywood sound. More...

Dancing Onward, Dancing Home By JESSICA LANG “My returning to Juilliard now as a choreographer for the December dance workshops comes with a mission,” writes the author, a Dance Division alumna. “I have happily taken on the responsibility of opening the first-year dance students’ minds, to get past inhibitions and help them take on the challenge of what lies ahead.” More...

Love, Jealousy, and Happily Ever After By DAWN-LYEN GARDNER What happens when true love, evil ambition, and commedia dell’arte collide? Find out at the Drama Division’s fourth-year production of Carlo Gozzi’s The King Stag, a fantastical and satirical look at the destructive vices of ambition, jealousy, and lust, and the power of true love to transcend them all. More...

Jazz Ensembles Bring Some Latin Heat to Juilliard By LOREN SCHOENBERG It may not be easy to come up with a definition for Latin jazz, but one thing’s for sure: When the Juilliard Jazz Ensembles take to the stage in Paul Hall on December 9 for some of the very best music in the Latin jazz tradition, the heat will be turned on! More...

More Than Sagebrush and Spurs: Focus! 2003 Looks West of the Rockies By JOEL SACHS Is the sound of the American west any more substantial than slick film music for Hollywood and easy listening for laid-back yuppies and late-night insomniacs? Of course it is, says Focus! Festival director Joel Sachs. This year’s installment, called “West of the Rockies,” sets out to prove it. More...

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