Word: juilliards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McBride's roots are in soul music. At eight he taught himself bass, playing along to Stax and James Brown records at home in Philadelphia. Arriving at Juilliard at 17, he studied jazz and classical bass. But his education really began a year later, he says, when he dropped out to try to make it on his own. Moving into a small Harlem apartment with four roommates ("There was always somebody jamming in the living room," he recalls), McBride spent his days practicing his instrument. Nights he hung out in Greenwich Village clubs studying the techniques of his idols, bassists...
...says players for the new orchestra were recruited from the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music...
Other commencement speeches are less coherent, relying on pretty metaphors rather than cogent messages. Speaking at the Juilliard School, Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, made a hazy comparison between life and sailing. "You chart a trek where no one's sailed before," she said, quoting the poet Samuel Hazo. "You rig. You anchor Up. You said." A nice almost inspirational image, but not very useful advice to the Class...
Such adroitness comes naturally to a Fed chairman who has been in political training all his life and has managed to serve an extraordinary number of masters. A former student of the Juilliard school of music and a disciple of libertarian thinker Ayn Rand, Greenspan first entered politics as a domestic adviser to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign and rose to hold key economic posts under five Presidents. He suffered his greatest embarrassment in 1985 when, as a private economist, Greenspan wrote letters to regulators and Congress endorsing Charles Keating and his Lincoln savings and loan. Lincoln subsequently collapsed...
...production comes from London's Royal National Theatre, and won four Olivier Awards, equivalent to the Tonys. At New York City's Lincoln Center, the look and style are the same, but the cast is all American and almost all new, save for Michael Hayden, 30, a 1992 Juilliard graduate who reprises the leading role that vaulted him from nowhere to stardom...