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Juilliard Announces Plans to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER J. MOSSEY
The Juilliard School will celebrate its 100th anniversary in the 2005-06 season with a yearlong, artistically broad program that will include performances of more than 35 newly commissioned works, international and national tours of the School’s principal performing ensembles, exhibits, and special publications and events. Funding for these initiatives is provided in large part by Lehman Brothers, the principal corporate sponsor of Juilliard’s centennial.
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4 Visiting Artists Offer a Choreographic Collage
By SARAH ADRIANCE
For last year’s groundbreaking New Dances at Juilliard program, four guest choreographers created new works for each class of Juilliard dancers, freshman to senior. This year, New Dances at Juilliard Edition 2004 follows suit, with new works by Janis Brenner, Susan Marshall (pictured), Ronald K. Brown, and Robert Battle.
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Drama Division Prepares for Kraemer's Occupation
By TOMMY SMITH
How Joe Kraemer found time to write a play is anyone’s guess! The American Occupation, his first full-length piece, will premiere this month in the Drama Theater, featuring the fourth-year actors. The play—a rollicking, transcontinental fusion of comedy, drama, and song—follows the exploits of a struggling rock group that finds itself face-to-face with political and religious turmoil percolating in countries unfamiliar with the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.
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Baroque Music: Alive and Well And Thriving at Juilliard
By KENT TRITLE
Juilliard provides some tremendous opportunities for studying early music. The annual Jerome L. Greene concert—which takes place this month and will include vocal music for the first time—is but one of the more public events. Classes like the Oratorio Practicum, taught by organist and faculty member Kent Tritle, is another. Tritle explains.
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Multifaceted Mezzo Featured in Debut Recital
By CHRISTOPHER KAPICA
"I don't think I was somebody who was born with an extraordinary instrument," says mezzo-soprano Brenda Patterson. "It's something I've worked at very gradually over a long time." The hard work has paid off nicely. Brenda, a Juilliard alumna who will perform this month as winner of the 2004 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital, has achieved abundant success as a vocalist, producer, and scholar.
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