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Talking Music With a Maestro
By DAVID PRATT
This fall, Maestro James DePreist (left), after leading the Oregon Symphony for more than two decades, came to Juilliard as the new director of conducting and orchestral studies. In this interview, writer David Pratt talks with the maestro about his life as a conductor, the training of young musicians, the influence of jazz on his career, and many other topics sure to intrigue.
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Realism Mixed With Dadaism Adds Spark to Opera Double Bill
By BENJAMIN SOSLAND
The Juilliard Opera Center turns its attention to French Impressionism in December, as it presents Enfants by two quintessential masters of that era: Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and Debussy's L'enfant prodigue share the stage of the Juilliard Theater in a production directed by Lillian Groag (right) that mixes Realism with a touch of Dadaism.
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Focus! 2005 Celebrates Composers of the Soviet Avant-Garde
By JOEL SACHS
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the failures of that society have become apparent, but some of its real merits have been forgotten. One of its finest achievements happened, to some extent, in spite of the society: the production of a generation of remarkable composers. Focus! 2005 examines some of their music (including that of Shostakovich, pictured left), and explores their influences on composers who followed.
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Rebel Armies Asks Journalists To Own Up
By DAVID TOWNSEND
Playwright Mark Lee (right) draws from his personal experiences as a journalist in Uganda in his scorching drama, Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad, December's fourth-year drama production directed by Regge Life. The play, says Life, takes a stern look at "the ethics of documenting the history of our world."
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President Polisi Wins 2 Arts Education Awards
By IRA ROSENBLUM
Two prestigious arts education awards will be presented to Juilliard's president, Joseph W. Polisi (left), early in December: Musical America's 2005 Educator of the Year and the New York Youth Symphony's 2004 Theodore L. Kesselman Award. "I share these honors with all the members of the Juilliard community who have made this great institution the caring and productive school that it is," President Polisi says.
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