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Honoring 5 Legends of Jazz
By LOREN SCHOENBERG
Juilliard heats up the winter with a special gala on February 27 titled Tribute to Jazz Legends. Hosted by saxophonist-composer Benny Golson and featuring special performances by alumni Audra McDonald, singer, and Christian McBride, bass player, with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, the evening honors five legendary artists: James Moody, Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, and Joe Wilder (photo), each of whom will be awarded the Juilliard President's Medal, in recognition of their contributions to jazz.
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Beyond J.O.C.
By JONATHAN ESTABROOKS
While the prestigious postgraduate Juilliard Opera Center garners much of the focus on opera at the School, two productions this month give undergraduate and master’s degree singers a chance to shine. Robin Guarino (photo) directs the Juilliard Opera Theater production of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide while the younger singers of the Juilliard Opera Workshop perform a 20th-century masterpiece, Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s bon-bon, The Mother of Us All.
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Ancient Greek History in 3 Easy Lessons
By GEOFFREY MURPHY
If one ancient Greek play is thrilling, imagine three in one evening! That’s the premise behind The Greeks, Part One: The War, part of a trilogy of compilations of major Greek plays, adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979. A trilogy within a trilogy, The War includes three separate plays, Iphigenia in Aulis, Achilles, and The Trojan Women, and the fourth-year drama class brings them to life in a production directed by Brian Mertes.
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Basically Bach
By ROBIN LEAVER
More than 250 years after his death, J.S. Bach continues to have a profound influence on Western music, and this year’s annual Greene Concert of Baroque music explores three of the composer’s masterpieces: the Orchestral Suite in C Major (BWV 1066) and two cantatas—one of which, No. 176 (Es ist ein trotzig, und verzagt Ding), will undoubtedly become known as “The Juilliard Cantata,” as the original continuo part was part of the large collection of rare manuscripts donated to the Juilliard library last year by the School’s chairman, Bruce Kovner.
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Delfs Draws Inspiration From Unusual Places
By TONI MARIE MARCHIONI
Maestro Andreas Delfs (photo) lists Gary Larson’s Complete Far Side Cartoons not only among his favorite books, but also as inspiration for concert programming. The German-born conductor and music director of the Milwaukee Symphony describes his programming objectives as “flexibility and spontaneity,” and while his Juilliard Orchestra program this month is not based on themes from a comic strip, it does hold several connections to his own time at Juilliard as a student.
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 In our annual alumni section we focus on the elusive theme of “pop culture,” and look at ways that Juilliard alums are proving there is room for both “pop” and “classical” in the psyche of a single performer.
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