Highlighting Juilliard College: the Great school of Music

By Lanny Carver

The Juilliard college is a center for music and the performance humanities that has provided the world the highest caliber of artists from musicians, actors, to dancers for centuries now. Juilliard's first consideration is to foster an environment of fantastic dexterity for scholars to hone and prepare them for a successful career in music and the performing humanities.

Actually, Juilliard faculty has produced numerous outstanding personalities in the fields of drama, dance and music. The first Superman actor Christopher Reeve, Laura Linney of The Truman Show, Marcia Cross of Desperate Housewives, comedian and actor Robin Williams of Good Morning Vietnam, and Sara Ramirez of grey's Anatomy are just a few of its produced talents.

Juilliard's professional quality musical coaching also gave the world the following artists : Nathaniel Ayer, a Yankee virtuoso and pianist whose life is featured in the movie The Soloist ; Hiroko Nakamura, a pianist ; the chamber music threesome called Ahn trio by the three sisters : Angella, Lucia, and Maria Ahn ; and also Jonathan Batiste, a pianist.

Juilliard college initially came to be known as the Institute of Musical Art when it was founded in 1905 by Dr. Frank Damrosch, who assumed that US citizens aren't supposed to travel to Europe if only to study music and the performance arts. From its primary students of a hundred, it has ballooned to a few hundreds more, which showed the enlarging demand for fine quality musical coaching in the USA. As a consequence, the college originally located at the fifth and twelfth Street moved to its Claremont Avenue location. Juilliard faculty then got its name as a part of its metamorphosis. It also resulted to the founding of Juilliard Graduate faculty.

Due to the unexpected increase in the quantity of enrollees, Juilliard resorted to separating its classes into many divisions as drama, music, dance, precollege, evening, college, and the Music Advancement program. Anyone that wants to be in the ranks of the great Juilliard graduates should be ready to pass the competitive auditions in selected cities around the US. Their performances will be rated by the members of the faculty.

Juilliard has been part of history in the performance humanities arena. In 2006, Juilliard was awarded a trove of precious music manuscripts from the multi-millionaire collector Bruce Kovner. This includes advised proofs and first editions of the major works of Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and many others. This is a suggestion of Juilliard's fantastic collection of music and how it won its reputation as the number 1 music college in the US. - 29874

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