| Rivington Street Contributor(s): Tax, Meredith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252070321 ISBN-13: 9780252070327 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: For nearly a century, Juilliard has trained the artists who compose the elite corps of the performing arts community in the United States. This comprehensive history, in paperback for the first time, takes us behind the scenes of one of the most famous music schools in the world. Detailing Juilliard's colorful history and penetrating the mystique of its rarefied, ultracompetitive conservatory atmosphere, Andrea Olmstead tells a fascinating story of vision and temperament, of talent and backstabbing politics, and of artistry and determination. Through its various incarnations the institution has been shaped by the strong personalities of its administrators, the artistic sensibilities of its faculty, and the prodigious gifts of its students. Drawing on interviews, ephemeral materials, and previously neglected archival records, Olmstead traces the school's ups and downs and documents the accomplishments and foibles of its leaders. She also probes the controversies that have littered the school's history, from Augustus Juilliard's $12.5 million bequest in 1919 to the expensive move to Lincoln Center. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001027715 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.28" W x 9.12" (1.27 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, this work draws the reader into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century. |