Juilliard

1971 / 52 min. / color
Directed by Christian Blackwood

A visit in 1971 to the classrooms of the Juilliard School, the prominent music academy, introducing some of the gifted students and many of the brilliant faculty including: Paul Mann, Peter Mennin, Rosina Lhévinne, Jennie Tourel, Jose Limon, John Houseman, Ivan Galamian, Ania Dorfmann, Saul Goodman, and Beverley Johnson.

A meaningful documentation of the school that was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art. The composer Peter Mennin became president of the school, renamed “The Juilliard School of Music”, after William Schuman resigned in 1962. In 1969 the school moved to Lincoln Center and has grown in importance ever since.