"Celebrating the Juilliard Manuscript Collection" on Tuesday, November 3 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall
Juilliard Celebrates Completion of its New Scholars' Reading Room With a Special Concert Featuring Two Works Programmed from the Juilliard Manuscript Collection - Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" and Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro"
Juilliard presents Celebrating the Juilliard Manuscript Collection, an evening of performances, and discussion, and media display about two manuscripts - Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 - that are prized parts of the priceless 138-piece collection.. The Collection has been stored off-site during Juilliard's renovation and reconstruction and was brought to its permanent home in the Scholars' Reading Room at Juilliard at the end of the summer. The scholars' reading room, which is being dedicated with a private reception earlier in the evening, allows for the scholarly research and study of its contents. Specially designed, it features light and temperature controls to ensure the preservation of the Collection. It is the last space at Juilliard to be dedicated as the School completes its $200 million, 3-year renovation and expansion.
FREE tickets to this special concert, Celebrating the Juilliard Manuscript Collection, are available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office (155 West 65th Street). Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM. For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.
The November 3 celebration of Juilliard's Manuscripts features an unusual combination of bravura performances, learned discussions - with additional performances of musical examples - and projected images from the Juilliard Manuscript Collection and other important international library holdings. L. Michael Griffel, Chair of Juilliard's Music History Department offers perspectives on Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, while audiences may appreciate the visual perspective - eight of the high resolution digital images that can be viewed on the Juilliard Manuscript Web site (www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org) will be shown at Alice Tully Hall via big-screen projection. The Juilliard Manuscript Collection holds the engraved first edition of the string quartet, as well as the autograph manuscript of the composer's own version for piano four-hands.
On November 3, the Afiara String Quartet, Juilliard's new resident graduate quartet, performs Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, in its most familiar format, and duo pianists, Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe perform the piano four-hand version.
Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard University, discusses what we can learn from the score of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro prior to the performance of the beloved opera's final scene, the wind parts of which, written entirely in Mozart's hand, reside in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection. Ari Pelto conducts the Juilliard Orchestra and singers from Juilliard Vocal Arts in a performance of Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar and the Finale. They also will perform musical examples that illustrate Mr. Wolff's points, along with big screen projections of manuscript pages from Juilliard's digitized collection and those from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Biblioteka Jagiellońska - Kraków. Professor Wolff, in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute, has recently overseen the publication of all of Mozart's operas in facsimile edition. Juilliard's singers are: Devon Guthrie (Susanna); Rebecca Jo Loeb (Cherubino); Emalie Savoy (Countess); Benjamin Bloomfield (Count); Adrian Rosas (Figaro); Naomi O'Connell (Marcellina); Martin Coyle (Basilio).
Juilliard's autograph manuscripts of the Beethoven and Mozart works performed on November 3 will be on display in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall for that night only. Digital images of the manuscripts in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection are available at www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org.
In February 2006, a priceless collection of autographs and working manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and other musical treasures was given to The Juilliard School by its chairman, Bruce Kovner. Called the Juilliard Manuscript Collection, it comprises several headline-making manuscripts, sketchbooks, and printed editions with extensive composer markings. Highlights of the collection are the final working manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony prepared for the printer, with numerous revisions, collections, and alterations by the composer; the manuscript of the transposed continuo part of Bach's Cantata, BWV. 176; sketchbooks for Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra; and Richard Strauss' opera Frau ohne Schatten; and an extensively works autograph manuscript of the last 50 or so bars of the first movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
FOR CONCERT LISTINGS:
CELEBRATING THE JUILLIARD MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Tuesday, November 3 at 8 PM · Alice Tully Hall · FREE; standby line forms 7 PM
Ari Pelto, Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra and
Singers from Juilliard Vocal Arts
Afiara String Quartet
Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, Pianists
L. Michael Griffel, Chair, Juilliard Music History Department
Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor, Harvard University
Ludwig van Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Afiara String Quartet (Valerie Li and Yuri Cho, Violins; David Samuel, Viola; Adrian Fung, Cello)
Observations on the composition of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Professor Griffel
Grosse Fuge, arranged for piano four hand, Op. 134
Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe
-Intermission-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Learning from the autograph score of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Professor Wolff
From Act IV: Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar and Finale
Juilliard Orchestra · Ari Pelto, Conductor
Devon Guthrie (Susanna) · Rebecca Jo Loeb (Cherubino) · Emalie Savoy (Countess)
Benjamin Bloomfield (Count)
Adrian Rosas (Figaro) · Naomi O'Connell (Marcellina) · Martin Coyle (Basilio)
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FREE TICKETS AND STANDBY LINE
PROCEDURES FOR
NOVEMBER 3, CALL the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office (155 West 65th Street)
Open Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM, (212) 769-7406
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