Vol. XVII No. 6
March 2002

by JENI DAHMUS
March 2002


The following events occurred in Juilliard’s history in March.

1935

March 7, the Juilliard Student Club sponsored an "Anti-War Meeting." Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary addressed approximately 100 students on the topic "Is the United States Headed for War?"

1947

March 25, capacity crowds filled the Jade and Basildon Rooms of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for Juilliard’s annual spring formal. Attendance exceeded 600, making it the largest gathering at a social function in the history of the School up to that time. Jeno Bartel and his orchestra provided music for dancing and Lenny Graves sang at intermission.

1978

March 12-13, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble gave the New York premiere of Changes by Helen McGehee, formerly a leading dancer of the Martha Graham Company and Juilliard faculty member from 1951 to 1984. Oboist Anne Leekac companied the ensemble with a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, Op. 49 (1951). Each of the work’s six sections was devoted to a mythological figure: Pan, Phaeton, Niobe, Bacchus, Narcissus, and Arethusa. Russell Lome, Susan Salinger, and Bruce Davis were soloists, McGehee designed the costumes herself, and Carol Sealey designed the lighting.

Helen McGehee’s Changes received its New York premiere in 1978.
1987

March 26-28, the Juilliard Theater Center presented Group XVI in the world premiere of Dare Clubb’s Passed Out in Wisdom, a play created through the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program. William Foeller directed the production, Raymond Kluga designed the sets, Sharon Sobel designed the costumes, and Betsy Adams was responsible for the lighting.

Group XVI premiered Dare Clubb’s Passed Out in Wisdom in 1987.
1993

March 31, Charles Wadsworth and Samuel Sanders gave a joint master class titled "The Pianist as Musical Colleague" in Paul Hall.

Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard’s archivist.