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...classical music in general skyrocketed, and Shaham rose to megastar status on the tide of his impeccable, resonant, almost glowing violin playing. At that time, however, Shaham was already a well-respected figure in the music world, having debuted at the age of 10 with the Jerusalem Symphony, attended Juilliard after graduating from the Horace Mann School in New York City, won a Grammy Award in 1985 and, in a stunt that assures him a place in music history, replaced fellow virtuoso Itzhak Perlman in a London Symphony Orchestra performance given 24 hours notice...
Anyone who has seen Ragtime knows there is no finer singer on Broadway than McDonald. A 28-year-old Juilliard School graduate who opted for musical comedy over grand opera, she has a tangy, beautifully focused soprano voice and an intensely evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste jingle sound poignant--and the songs on Way Back to Paradise are anything but mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren...
Recently Weakland has taken time away from work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns...
...comes as no surprise that a description of student life at The Juilliard School emphasizes the variety of student activities outside of practice and performance. The summary reads, "Juilliard students are not typical college students. They are passionate and dedicated about preparing for [the future]. They are used to long hours of lessons, practice and rehearsals. Yet, with all their commitments, Juilliard students find the time to socialize, participate in organized activities, attend cultural events, and, most importantly, enlist their talents in a broad range of community service." Students at Juilliard can even cross-enroll at Columbia University to take...
...musi- cians' need is surprisingly simple: it justcomes with the territory. "Harvard made aconscious choice decades ago not to do what Yalehas done," said Allston Burr Senior Tutor ofKirkland House and music seminar instructor Dr.Mark Risinger. That is, the college chose not toestablish a school of music. With Juilliard,Curtis, Peabody and the New England Conservatoryin relatively close proximity, Risinger explained,there was no need for Harvard to divert itsfaculty and finances from academics. "We don'thave the same sort of obligation to maximizeperformance opportunity that a conservatory wouldhave." "My primary concern in talking withprospective students," Risinger added...