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4 New Dances and How They Grew
by SUSAN REITER
When four choreographers (including Sidra Bell, pictured) face the
challenge of creating large-scale new works for an entire class of
Juilliard dancers, they get to try out new ways of working as the
students experience absorption in a distinctive movement style and
creative method. Everybody wins ... including the audiences who will attend
New Dances/Edition 2008. More...
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| | Focus! Explores a Century of California Music
by JOEL SACHS
Ever since Henry Cowell (photo) transformed California into a hotbed of new music, composers from the state have added widely to the repertory. This year's Focus! festival, which begins on January 23, explores a century of music from California, by composers such as Cowell, Terry Riley, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, and John Adams, whose opera The Death of Klinghoffer closes the festival on January 31. More...
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| | | A Marriage of Jazz and the Movies
by ROGER OLIVER
Jazz and film have been strongly interconnected since the first feature-length “talking picture,” the appropriately titled The Jazz Singer of 1927. In the history of the relationship between jazz and film, however, no jazz performer and composer has had a greater impact than Terence Blanchard, whose compositions for film and arrangements from his 1999 CD Jazz in Film will be featured when he appears with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra on February 2. More...
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| At 70, a Master Reflects on His Methods
by EVAN FEIN
John Corigliano, a leading figure in American contemporary music, is no stranger to accolades—and 2008, the year of his 70th birthday, has been especially full of them. In a recent interview, the composer and Juilliard faculty member shared some thoughts about his career and his creative process, and reflected upon his First Symphony, one of the seminal works in his catalog, which the Juilliard Orchestra will perform on December 12 at Carnegie Hall. More...
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