By: clvrmnky
Pffft. They still allow "Stairway to Heaven" and "Welcome to the Jungle". Amateurs.
View ArticleBy: muddgirl
For fiddlers, it's got to be Ashokan Farewell. A gorgeous piece to be sure (as demonstrated by the link), but surely it's not the only fiddle ballad.
View ArticleBy: joboe
Another student was right in the middle of practicing the oboe excerpt from Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin when he found out it was banned. "Does this mean I don't have a lesson tomorrow?" he asked,...
View ArticleBy: TheWhiteSkull
Not to mention "His sisters and his cousins/Whom he reckons now by dozens...AND HIS AUNTS!"
View ArticleBy: Faint of Butt
Does "all musical theater numbers" include Gilbert and Sullivan? Because you'll pry my "Oh, better far to live and die ...I am a pirate king!" from my cold, dead diaphragm!
View ArticleBy: infinite intimation
"Prohibited piano works also include Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Chopin's Op. 10 Études, Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos, as well as the Liszt B Minor Sonata" Liszt. Ferencz Liszt....
View ArticleBy: jokeefe
Oh FFS, they've had to add a disclaimer at the top because too many of the commentators didn't get the satire. Honestly.
View ArticleBy: fifthrider
Wouldn't be such a bad idea, to be honest - albeit only if implemented in a less extreme fashion as described here. An illustration, if you'll pardon an abrupt transition from 'high' nerd to 'low'...
View ArticleBy: Joe in Australia
The article has now been improved with the following preamble:NOTE: The following article is intended as humor and its contents do not reflect the real policies of the Juilliard Administration. The...
View ArticleBy: Nimmie Amee
I thought this article was satire based on the writing style and the quips from students.
View ArticleBy: randomkeystrike
The local orchestra I play in has a spectrum of players from very amateur to at least teaching-pros. And then we hire a young pro for violin and 'cello. They come in and audition from conservatories...
View ArticleBy: blurker
Heh. I auditioned for (and attended) the Dillard High School for the Performing Arts for my freshman year of high school. Auditions were in 1978 for the 1979/80 school year and lasted for 2 days. At...
View ArticleBy: jokeefe
Ha! "Vocal Arts Student Performs Entire Role of Susanna in D Staircase". I swear to god this actually happened here this year, except it was Halloween, and Lucia, and she was wearing an old wedding...
View ArticleBy: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish
Juilliard 2013: All PDQ Bach, all the time. If I were holding auditions, and somebody said they were using "New Horizons In Music Appreciation" as a monologue, I would offer them every role in the...
View ArticleBy: Sebmojo
The one time I auditioned for drama school I did it in French, Herod's big speech from Salome. I don't think I really wanted to get in.
View ArticleBy: jokeefe
And here I thought it might be safe to read the comments, but no... Unbelievable ! Now communism is in the school too?..They want to controle what students want to play?all the banned works are the...
View ArticleBy: awfurby
As a violist - this statement is hilarious: Among strings, violists were hit hardest, with all Bach Cello Suites prohibited as well as any passage of music containing a rhythm in 16th-notes or faster....
View ArticleBy: jokeefe
I so want to forward this to the faculty list at the School of Music right now, except that I anticipate there would then be a hurriedly called meeting in the Director's office punctuated with cries of...
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