Vol. XVII No. 1 September 2001
New Performance Season Begins: Over 650 Offerings Scheduled for 2001-02 The Juilliard School’s 2001-02 season gets underway this month, with the first of more than 650 music, dance, and drama performances. Most of these events are free and open to the public, providing Juilliard students with an opportunity to hone their skills as communicative artists before a public audience. Launching the season on September 22 is a concert in the Juilliard Theater by the New Juilliard Ensemble, conducted by its director, Joel Sachs. The NJE will offer three more concerts during the season, including the opening program of the 2002 Focus! Festival on January 25 in the Juilliard Theater, as well as concerts in Alice Tully Hall on November 20 and April 16. The American Brass Quintet, which is now in its 41st season, opens the Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series on October 15 in the Juilliard Theater. The program will feature Elizabethan consort music and 16th-century canons, as well as the New York premiere of Samuel Adler's Be Not Afraid: The Isle Is Full of Noises. Erik Ewazen's Frost Fire will complete the offerings. The faculty recital series will continue with the Juilliard String Quartet on February 7 and March 21 (which are both in Alice Tully Hall); the New York Woodwind Quintet on March 26 (in Paul Hall); and violinist Glenn Dicterow (with pianist Gerald Robbins and violist Karen Dreyfus) on May 1. This month’s offerings also include the first two workshop presentations by the Drama Division, featuring its fourth-year students. Laurence Fishburne’s Riff Raff (directed by Regge Life) will be presented in Studio 301 from September 25 through October 1. John Guare’s Landscape of the Body (directed by Will Pomerantz) will run simultaneously in the Drama Theater September 26 through 30. Other productions this year will include Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse (directed by Richard Feldman) November 15-19, Paul Rudnick’s Valhalla (directed by Christopher Ashley) December 12-16, and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (directed by Daniel Fish) February 6-10. All are being presented in the Drama Theater, and will return later in the year for additional performances during the Drama Division’s spring repertory season. Opera and Vocal Arts Offerings A Juilliard Songbook concert of music by Hugo Wolf launches the Jennie Tourel Vocal Arts series on October 4 at 6 p.m. in Morse Hall. Additional events in this series will include Juilliard Songbook concerts on December 6, February 7, April 25, and May 3, as well as Liederabend programs in Paul Hall on October 18, November 29, January 31, March 21, and April 11. The Juilliard Opera Center will present two mainstage productions in the Juilliard Theater this season. Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, conducted by Julius Rudel and directed by Eve Shapiro, will be offered on November 14, 16, and 18. Premiered in 1955 and performed by the New York City Opera a year later, Susannah transfers the Bible story to rural Tennessee. Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct the world premiere of Stephen Paulus’s Heloise and Abelard on April 24, with additional performances on April 26 and 28. The opera, with a libretto by Frank Corsaro, was commissioned by Juilliard and made possible by a generaous grant from the late Francis Goelet, and as part of the national series of works from Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, with the support of the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. project. It is based on letters that relate a love story between a 12th-century scholar and his pupil. Alumna soprano Jennifer Aylmer has been awarded the 2001 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital, which will take place in Tully Hall on November 28. She will be joined by pianist Kenneth Merrill. This annual concert advancing an outstanding young vocalist is underwritten by the Alice Tully Young Artists Fund (which also provides scholarships in voice and organ). Aylmer will sing music by Weill, Poulenc, Shostakovich, Almeida, Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, and Bolcom. The annual Vocal Arts Honors Recital will be offered on April 2 in Alice Tully Hall, featuring selected young artists of the Juilliard Opera Center and the Vocal Arts Department. Jazz at Juilliard Juilliard’s newest ensemble, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, debuts on October 30 in Alice Tully Hall, with a program of works by Benny Goodman, Thad Jones, and Duke Ellington. Michael Morgan conducts, with guest Wynton Marsalis and Jazz Studies director Victor Goines joining the ensemble. Other concerts by the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra will take place on December 7 in Alice Tully Hall, February 27 in the Juilliard Theater, and May 16 in Alice Tully Hall. Jazz performances by smaller ensembles are scheduled for November 13, December 17, and March 25 in Paul Hall. Dance Division Celebrates 50th Anniversary The Juilliard Dance Division was established in 1951 by William Schuman during his tenure as president of Juilliard, and observes its 50th anniversary this season with a number of special events. The fall dance workshops, to be presented in the Juilliard Theater on December 14, 15, and 17, will feature conversations with guest choreographers Pat Catterson and Margie Gillis, as well as performances of their works and those of Juilliard students. The annual spring dance concert on February 21-24 in the Juilliard Theater will present works by noted Juilliard alumni. Featured will be a world premiere by Robert Battle and a New York premiere by Ohad Naharin, as well as pieces by Lar Lubovitch and Paul Taylor. The annual Choreographers and Composers program on the Wednesdays at One series will be presented in Alice Tully Hall on January 23. Orchestra and Symphony Concerts Jahja Ling will lead the Juilliard Orchestra and the Juilliard Choral Union in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at Carnegie Hall on December 10. Other concerts by the Juilliard Orchestra take place this season on October 4 in the Juilliard Theater, conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller; February 1 in the Juilliard Theater, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw; February 18 in Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Kurt Masur; April 8 in Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by George Manahan; April 12 in the Juilliard Theater, conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller; April 29 in Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by David Atherton; and May 23 (the Commencement Concert) in Alice Tully Hall, conducted by Michael Christie. The Juilliard Symphony will perform in Avery Fisher Hall on December 3, under the baton of Andrew Litton. Other concerts by the Symphony will be offered in the Juilliard Theater on October 11 (conducted by James De Preist), November 6 (led by JoAnne Falletta), February 26 (conducted by Larry Rachleff), and April 30 (featuring works by Juilliard composers and led by Jeffrey Milarsky). Focus! Festival 2002 Focus! 2002: “Twelve Tones and Beyond” surveys the post-World War II legacy of Schoenberg’s 12-tone method, exploring the broad implications of an approach that has been at the center of musical thought since the 1920s. The composers to be featured—spanning three generations and a variety of styles—include some who, while not embracing the method, have still been strongly influenced by its principles. The opening concert is in the Juilliard Theater on January 25; five additional concerts take place between January 28 and February 1. Other Events Pianists Soyeon Lee and Xun Wang, winners of this year’s Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, will be presented on October 10 at 9 p.m. in a recital in Paul Hall that will be broadcast live on WQXR’s McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase, hosted by Robert Sherman. This year’s Irene Diamond Concert takes place in Alice Tully Hall on October 23. The annual event honors the well-known philanthropist who has supported many scholarships and projects at Juilliard. A gala benefit honoring board chairman emerita Mary Rodgers Guettel will be hosted by Julie Andrews in the Juilliard Theater on February 4, and will feature the Juilliard Orchestra with special celebrity guest stars. The event is part of the Richard Rodgers Centennial, being celebrated worldwide. The William Petschek Piano Award Debut Recital will take place on April 4 in Alice Tully Hall; the recipient is to be announced later this winter. The annual Lisa Arnhold Memorial Concert, on April 23 at Alice Tully Hall, will feature the Avalon String Quartet, new holders of the Lisa Arnhold Fellowships for String Quartet Studies. These are but a small number of the many concerts and productions that will be announced as the season unfolds. Watch The Juilliard Journal throughout the year for details, or search the calendar of events on our Web site.
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