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| Conlon Launches 2-Year, Cross-Genre Residency
by SUSAN REITER
Nearly 40 years after James Conlon (photo) first navigated Juilliard's hallways as a freshman, the internationally acclaimed conductor has returned to initiate an ambitious, wide-ranging two-year residency that reflects the impassioned commitment that has marked his exemplary career. Beginning with this month’s dance performances, Conlon will conduct programs involving all three divisions, while also devoting time to coaching, leading master classes, and participating in symposia. More...
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| All, or at Least Quite a Bit, About Elliott
by JOEL SACHS
Composing for the concert hall may not bring the same acclaim as writing rap songs, but it is very conducive to longevity. The record may have been set by Leo Ornstein, who died in 2002 at 109, but Elliott Carter (photo) is catching up, and is in wonderful health. On December 11 he turns 99—which means that he has completed 99 years and starts his 100th. In January, Juilliard’s Focus! festival kicks off his centennial year with “All About Elliott.” More...
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| | A Dark Comedy Explores the American Dream
by PETER "FINN" WITTROCK
More than 30 years after John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, debuted in 1971, the dark comedy remains relevant and biting. Will Pomerantz (photo)—who directed Guare’s Landscape of the Body at Juilliard in 2001 and returns to the School this month to direct a fourth-year production of Blue Leaves, says, "It doesn’t play if you over-analyze or even over-psychologize John’s work ... one of John’s things is his loathing for standard-issue American realism and the deadening effect it’s had on theater." More...
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| Boulez Visits Juilliard on a Mission for New Music
by EVAN FEIN
January marks the beginning of a collaboration between the Lucerne Festival Academy—a workshop for the intensive study of new music launched in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2004 by composer, conductor, and octogenarian Pierre Boulez—and The Juilliard School. It's a project that Boulez (photo) hopes will strip away the problems associated with performing new music and inspire a young generation of musicians to approach this important repertoire with enthusiasm. More...
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| | Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Comes of Age
by ALISON SCOTT-WILLIAMS
January 21 marks the 20th Juilliard celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This annual interdisciplinary performance by dancers, actors, singers, and jazz and classical musicians gives the entire Juilliard community a chance to come together and explore the many facets of Dr. King’s life and works, and remember a great American’s impact on our country and the world. More...
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