Juilliard Orchestra – Night After Night

February 23, 2013

Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, February 9, 2013

Trombonists of the Juilliard Orchestra, by Michael Nagle/The New York Times Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, February 9, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2013 Not many people know it, but we live in a golden age for contemporary concert-band music, with both well-established composers and inventive up-and-comers creating new pieces for (mostly) collegiate wind…

RIP James DePreist (Nov. 21, 1936–Feb. 8, 2013)

Musical America reports that the great American conductor James DePreist passed away this morning in Scottsdale, AZ, at 76, due to complications from an earlier heart attack. Born in Philadelphia in 1936, and the nephew of Marion Anderson, Mr. DePreist was a prominent, gifted musician who won the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition for Conductors…

Inspiration.

The Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, March 29, 2011