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Tully Hall to Close for Extensive Facelift
By TONI MARIE MARCHIONI
After 38 nonstop years of hosting orchestras, chamber groups, jazz musicians, and film festivals, Alice Tully Hall (seen in a photo from its dedication concert in October 1969) is temporarily closing her doors to undergo an 18-month facelift. While the renovations are welcome, the hall’s closing puts a strain on Juilliard, the Chamber Music Society, and other organizations that regularly rely on Tully for their events.
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Truth and Consequences, All in a Mozartean Garden
By CHRISTOPHER MOSSEY
Why do we love people who hurt us? An answer of sorts, though out of sync with modern sensibilities, can be found in W.A. Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera, performed this month by members of the Juilliard Opera Center, with Jay Lesenger (photo), director, and Gary Thor Wedow, conductor, making their J.O.C. debuts.
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Jazz Is the Language of Freedom in Qatar
By WILLIAM HARVEY
Last month, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra enjoyed the rare opportunity to visit Qatar, a Mideast Shangri-La that sits on top of the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves, where, through a series of workshops, classes, and performances, Juilliard jazz students shared America’s quintessential music with the people of this peaceful country of 150,000 citizens and 650,000 expatriates.
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For the Love of the Well-Chosen Word
Juilliard students are poets of dance, drama, and music ... but some of them also write poetry! In honor of National Poetry Month, The Juilliard Journal offers a special poetry feature, with works by current students, and a look at the poetry of alumnus Jonathan Schwartz (photo), which was published posthumously and received a top honor in the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
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Polisi Examines the Life and Times of William Schuman
By RAYMOND J. LUSTIG
William Schuman (photo) was not only a distinguished composer, but also Juilliard’s president from 1945-61, and the leading force in the many enormous transformations that changed Juilliard from a conservatory of music to a school for the performing arts. Current Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi is writing a biography of his predecessor and mentor; he will present some of his research on April 24 in a lecture titled “American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman.”
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