Andrea Olmstead taught music at The Juilliard School from 1972 to 1980. She is the author of Roger Sessions and His Music and other works.
"Even the practice rooms come to life in Juilliard: A
History."--Washington Post Book World
"A history of Juilliard, the country's largest, richest music
school, has long been needed, and Olmstead's book nicely fills the
gap. Her research has been thorough and without interference from
the school; and the story she has uncovered, which has some
remarkable twists and turns, she tells well."--George W. Martin
"Offers readers tantalizing extracts from archival sources as it
proceeds to chronicle the complicated evolution of the modern-day
Juilliard. . . . . A powerful case study in how private
institutions not only depend on charismatic personalities and great
wealth but must be able to outwit and survive their
dominance."--Leon Botstein, Musical Quarterly
"A fascinating account of the personalities, politics, and cultural
background of the Juillard School."--Sondra Wieland Howe, MLA
Notes
"A thoroughly researched narrative centered on the personalities
and relationships that have given the school its character and
nurtured it in its path to fame. . . . The view is
illuminiating."--Karen Ahlquist, Journal of the American
Musicological Society
"The first comprehensive history of the best-known musical
conservatoire in the United States. Based on thorough research,
many interviews, and first-hand experience of teaching at
Juilliard. Olmstead traces the shifting artistic policies, student
experience, and faculty membership of the various institutions that
metamorphosed over the years into The Juilliard School of
today."--Kenneth Morgan, American Studies
"The story is fascinating, involving as it does the legendary
musicians from the past who taught legendary musicians of yesterday
and today. . . . The transformation of the Juilliard School,
following the fusion of [the Institute of Musical Art and
Juilliard] . . . was thorough, radical, troubled, controversial,
and often brilliant. Olmstead makes it as provocative in the
reading as it seemed when it was happening."--Robert
Commanday, San Francisco Classical Voice
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