[Dixielandjazz] Juilliard's 100th Anniversary Celebration

[Steve barbone]

Below is a snip from the Times review of Juilliard's PBS TV show and
celebration of its 100th Anniversary. Their jazz department is still in the
formative stages, but at least they are trying.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Music Review PBS TV
Juilliard Turns 100, With Help From Itzhak Perlman and Others

NY TIMES - By ANNE MIDGETTE - April 5, 2006

Those assembling the Juilliard School's 100th-anniversary gala faced much
the same challenge as a wedding planner: come up with a one-night event that
is supposed to serve as a meaningful encapsulation of a continuing life. Of
course, a single night is inadequate to the task. The best you can hope for
is a happy potpourri, a sequence of snapshots or, ideally, a good party.

On Monday evening, a party is certainly what the school offered, a starry
event in its Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The gala's Oscar-like luster was only
underlined by a rare live television broadcast on PBS. . snip to:

The jazz department offered a piece by Wynton Marsalis, "Free to Be," for
which the television cameras sprang into action, though jazz at Juilliard,
still in its pioneering stages, seems to need some freeing up. . . . . . .