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Commissioned Opera Receives Premiere
By DAVID PRATT
Nathanael West’s 1933 tale of a male advice columnist—known to his readers only by his nom de journal, “Miss Lonelyhearts”—is a fractured car crash of irony, surrealism, and alienation. Now, thanks to alumnus and composer Lowell Liebermann (photo) and librettist Sandy McClatchy, the book is now an opera, commissioned by The Juilliard School, where it is to be premiered this month.
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Senior Dancers Share Common Creative Vision
By KATHRYN HIRSTEIN
Twenty dynamic and determined dancers will graduate in May from the Juilliard Dance Division, and this group of young artists receives a special opportunity this month to publicly express their identity as emerging artists, in the annual rite of passage known as Senior Dance Production.
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Jazz From the Inside Out: A Panel Discussion
By LOREN SCHOENBERG
To mark Jazz Awareness Month, The Journal called upon saxophonist, jazz historian, and Juilliard faculty member Loren Schoenberg (photo) to moderate a panel that would examine the role of institutionalized jazz education. Joining the discussion were Laurie Carter and Victor Goines, the executive and artistic directors (respectively) of Juilliard’s Jazz Studies program; Dick Katz, a mainstay on the New York jazz scene since the 1950s; and Chris Madsen, a recent Juilliard jazz graduate.
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In the Pre-College Division, Childhood, Talent, and Professionalism Go Hand-in-Hand
By DAVID PRATT
Contrary to popular belief, the young and gifted musicians of the Pre-College Division do enjoy their childhoods, writer David Pratt found when he spent a Saturday last fall with some of the students. Not that there’s no pressure … but, as one of them, cellist cellist Neena Deb-Sen (photo), says, “It’s the kind of pressure I enjoy. I never feel overwhelmed. For me, music is not a chore.”
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