Juilliard

Author : Andrea Olmstead
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071065
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juilliard written by Andrea Olmstead and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive history, Andrea Olmstead takes us behind the scenes and into the practice rooms, studios, and offices of one of the most famous music schools in the world. The roster of Juilliard faculty and their students reads like a veritable who's who of the performing arts world. The music school has counted Josef and Rosina Lhevinne and Olga Samaroff Stokowski among its faculty, with students including Richard Rodgers, Van Cliburn, James Levine, Leontyne Price, Miles Davis, and Itzhak Perlman. The dance faculty has included Jos Lim n, Anna Sokolow, and the venerable Martha Graham, while such bright lights as Robin Williams, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, and Mandy Patinkin have emerged from the youngest department in the school, the Drama Division. What is it really like to be immersed in the rarefied, ultra-competitive conservatory atmosphere of Juilliard? Olmstead has pored over archival records and ephemeral material and conducted dozens of unprecedented interviews to paint a true picture of the school's private side and the accomplishments and foibles of its leaders. Through its various incarnations as the Institute of Musical Art, the Juilliard Musical Foundation, the Juilliard School of Music, and The Juilliard School stormy directorships and controversies have left their mark: Augustus Juilliard's multi- million-dollar bequest in 1919, the expensive move to the Lincoln Center complex, and dozens of episodes of power-brokering, arrogance, intimidation, secrecy, and infighting. Balanced against these are the vision, dedication, talent, and determination of generations of gifted teachers, students, and administrators. For nearly a century, Juilliard has trained the artists who compose the elite corps of the performing arts community in the United States. Juilliard: A History affirms the school's artistic legacy of great performances as the one constant amid decades of upheaval and change.

Author : Lisa Brooks Robinson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671469
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Living Legacy written by Lisa Brooks Robinson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Created on the occasion of the Juilliard School's 100th anniversary in 2005, this book offers an unprecedented look at Juilliard's historic stringed instrument collection. The collection, assembled over the course of the last century through generous gifts of instruments and funds to the school, is vividly represented by photographic and narrative accounts of 25 instruments (and three bows) of particular historic interest by such illustrious makers as Amati, Bergonzi, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Stradivari, and others, as well as reproductions of historic documents and an annotated list of other instruments and bows. Among the featured instruments are a Stradivarius violin that once belonged to a Russian czar and was later owned by Avery Fisher, a Guarneri del Gesu violin played by a member of the Viennese quartet that premiered many of Beethoven's and Schubert's works in that genre, and a Stradivarius cello previously owned by Hugo Becker, head of the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik. Short essays sketch the history of Juilliard and its illustrious string department, and describe the crucial role of the Instrumental Loan Program, which allows students to borrow instruments for special performances and competitions as well as for longer-term use. The book includes a foreword by renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman, a Juilliard alumnus and holder of the school's Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair since 1999.

Author : Maro Chermayeff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juilliard written by Maro Chermayeff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sparkling portrait--conceived as a companion to an American Masters documentary scheduled to air this fall on PBS--the public gets an up-close, in-depth look inside this legendary institution. This intimate pictorial study offers 300 fabulous photos, clippings, notes, and posters, supplemented by informative captions and quotes by famous alumni.

Author : Robert Beaser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Songs written by Robert Beaser and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Callas
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670424
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Callas at Juilliard written by Maria Callas and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Callas returned to the stage in 1971 to teach master classes at Juilliard. This intriguing forum later inspired Terrence McNally's acclaimed play Master Class. Outspoken and uncompromising in her artistic beliefs, Callas worked through her legendary arias from Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, and others. John Ardoin brilliantly captures the insights of a thoughtful singer who reveals herself to be not the imperious diva of her reputation, but a supremely self-aware artist concerned with passing along a great musical tradition.

Author : Judith Kogan
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing But the Best written by Judith Kogan and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of true stories providing a portrait of the best and brightest students studying to be worldclass musicians.

Author : Patti Niemi
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770908498
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sticking It Out written by Patti Niemi and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By turns reflective and dramatic, poignant and hilarious, Sticking It Out offers an irresistible portrait of the artist as a young percussionist” (San Francisco Chronicle). When Patti Niemi was ten years old, all the children in her school music class lined up to choose their instruments. Boy after boy chose drums, and girl after girl chose flute—that is, until it was Patti’s turn. From that point onward, Patti devoted her life to mastering the percussive arts. Cymbals, snare drum, marimba, timpani, chimes: she practiced them all, and in 1983, she entered Juilliard, the most prestigious music conservatory in in the world. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Patti’s years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, face her own crippling anxiety, and confront the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students. Bringing us inside a world that most of us never get to see, Patti’s vivid memoir is “an eye-opening tale of demanding teachers, grueling practice schedules, severe performance anxiety and bias against ‘girl drummers’—a funny, poignant first-person account of the fierce commitment it takes to succeed in classical music” (San Jose Mercury News). “One of the funniest-ever classical-music books . . . and certainly among the best written.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A shattered-mirror insight into the bizarre world of hitting things with sticks.” —Neil Peart, bestselling author, lyricist, and drummer for Rush

Author : Joseph Polisi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671032
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist as Citizen written by Joseph Polisi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a lighter note, humorous anecdotes feature such celebrated figures as Juilliard graduate and actor Robin Williams and the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Also included is a fascinating memoir that features Polisi's early days at Juilliard and the selection process that resulted in his appointment, at the age of thirty-six, as the venerable institution's sixth president."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kathryn Miranda
Publisher : Books that Change
ISBN 13 : 9780964435285
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dare to Be Wrong written by Kathryn Miranda and published by Books that Change. This book was released on 2007 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hammond Talbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus D. Juilliard Vs. Thomas S. Greenman written by Thomas Hammond Talbot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials concerns the purchase of bails of cotton involving cash, gold and silver coins, and U.S notes.