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This timeline of the history of the School contains information
and details of particular interest to our former students. Alumni
who have archival materials that they wish to give to the School
may contact the Office of
Alumni Affairs; such donations to our archives will be greatly
appreciated.
1920 | 1930
| 1940 | 1950 | 1960
| 1970 | 1980 | 1990
| 2000
1917
Janet Daniels Schenck, a young musician and graduate of the New
York School of Social Work, begins the planning of a new music school.
1918
School is established by Janet D. Schenck (pictured) at the Union
Settlement on East 104th Street, later moving to a rental brownstone
on East 105th Street. She is director from 1918–1956.
There are 120 students, representing 10 nationalities, and a faculty
of 23. The fee charged is 50 cents a lesson or 25 cents with two
in a class. A budget of $3,000 for 1918–1919 is approved.
In March, Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals (pictured) become the founding
members of the artist auxiliary board.
1919
The first District Music Service begins (community outreach) with
concerts given at various divisions of Ellis Island, including the
tuberculosis and psychopathic wards. Surgical and shell-shock hospitals
are visited weekly.
1920
The School’s first charter is issued. The School is incorporated
as the Neighborhood Music School under the Board of Regents of the
University of the State of New York.
The School has 200 students.
1922
May — The first commencement is held and the first diploma
awarded.
Hugo Kortschak joins the conducting and string faculties, where
he remains for 30 years.
October — The School is moved to facilities at 238 East 105th
Street.
1923
The first concert in a public hall is performed in the Heckscher
Theatre in May.
1924
The first Town Hall recital is given in January.
There are 246 students representing 14 nationalities, with 244
on the waiting list, 28 teachers, and a budget of $19,854.37.
Pianist Harold Bauer gives his first master class in the fall.
1925
The School’s first auditorium is constructed seating over
two hundred people.
In November, the Board of Regents of the University of the State
of New York grants the School’s permanent charter.
1926
Dora Zaslavsky, one of the first graduates of the School, joins
the piano faculty, where she teaches for over 60 years.
1928
The School moves into a new four-story building, built on the same
site as the old.
There are 28 theory classes; 20 scholarship students; Senior Orchestra
numbers 28.
1930
New library and elevator for the library are added; a beautiful
reading room is constructed in place of the entrance court.
Hugh Ross, conductor of New York’s Schola Cantorum, joins
the faculty, where he remains for over 50 years.
1932
The School has 320 students representing 18 nationalities; there
are 44 teachers on faculty.
1934
There are 403 students representing 25 nationalities.
Weekly concerts at the Museum of the City of New York are started.
From February 27 to June 5 the School gives 88 programs of music
in 29 different centers: 37 programs in educational organizations,
31 in social centers, 15 in health centers, and 5 in churches.
1935
“District Music Service” (community outreach) includes
32 concerts at 15 different agencies; 23 additional agencies are
reached regularly through concerts, designed especially for the
community, and given at the School. This program grew out of the
first music programs given in the hospitals immediately after the
last war.
There are 435 students representing 21 nationalities in attendance:
25% are under 12 years of age, 36% between 12 and 18, and 39% over
18 years old (61% under 18 and 39% over 18 years of age).
1938
Amendment to charter of the Neighborhood Music School renames the
institution Manhattan School of Music.
The School has 482 students, 55 scholarship students, 46 theory
classes; Senior Orchestra numbers 70.
The new Hubbard Auditorium and additional rooms added to the building
are completed (pictured).
1940
The Concert and Placement Bureau (placement office) opens in May
“to secure engagements for our gifted students so that they
may have the encouragement and discipline of frequent appearances.”
The School has 525 students and a faculty of 58.
 Appearing
in recital at the School are Harold Bauer (pictured, pointing),
Rudolf Serkin, Dora Zaslavsky, (pictured, seated at piano) and the
two-piano duo of Rudolph Gruen and Frances Hall.
1941
Postgraduate department is formed. Courses are offered in conducting
by Hugo Kortschak; in ensemble by Harris Danziger, Dora Zaslavsky,
and by Oliver Edel, Julius Shaier, and Rachmael Weinstock of the
Roth Quartet; in scoring, arranging, fugue, and composition by Vittorio
Giannini; and advanced dictation, ear-training, analysis, score
reading, and keyboard harmony by Dr. Howard Murphy.
1942
The School awards its first postgraduate diploma.
Monthly concerts for children are inaugurated at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
1943
Amendment to the charter authorizes the School to grant the bachelor
of music degree.
1945
June 1 — Janet D. Schenck, the School's director, is assisted
by Dr. Harold Bauer in conferring the degree of bachelor of music
for the first time.
Special classes are arranged to help the returning veterans. The
School is one of two music schools in New York City, outside the
universities, qualified by the government to accept returning veterans
both under Public Law 346 (G.I. Bill of Rights) and Public Law 16
(Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Law).
1947
Amendment to the charter authorizes the School to confer the master
of music degree.
The School has 663 students.
1950
Raymond LeMieux joins the faculty and begins a graduate program
in music education.
The opera department is formed.
1951
Robert Goldsand joins the piano faculty, where he teaches until
his death in 1991.
1952
 Jonel
Perlea, a conductor at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, is appointed
to the faculty.
1954
School is expanded; library wing is added.
The School has 650 students representing 30 foreign countries and
36 U.S. states.
1956
September — Janet Schenck retires as director; she remains
on the School’s board of trustees and becomes director emeritus
and trustees’ representative to the administration.
 Board
of trustees appoint Metropolitan Opera baritone John Brownlee (pictured)
as the School’s new director. He serves as director/president
until 1969.
School receives full membership to the Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools.
1957
First time School makes a widespread drive for funds; slogan is
“Help us to raise the roof,” as they need two new floors,
one to be a new dining hall, the other to have a recital hall.
1958
Two additional floors are added, which include a large and beautiful
dining hall, a recital hall, studios, and additional practice rooms.
Student body numbers 831 students.
Pablo Casals returns to the School to teach a master class.
1960
The advanced opera workshop coaches 72 entire roles, from seven
different operas — sung in French, German, and Italian —
with two casts each.
Yehudi Menuhin gives a string seminar.
1961
Rosina Lhevinne appears as piano soloist with the School’s
Symphony, under the baton of Jonel Perlea.
1962
Lillian Fuchs joins the chamber music and viola faculities, and
teaches at the School for almost 30 years.
1963
May — The board of trustees announces an $8.5 million expansion
program which includes the purchasing of the Juilliard building
on Claremont Avenue.
Alumni Campaign Fund established for move to new building.
1964
 Anton
Coppola, pictured, joins the conducting and opera faculties where
he teaches for 15 years.
1965
Artur Balsam joins the piano and chamber music faculties, where
he teaches until 1993.
1966
March — Anton Coppola conducts the Opera Theater production
of The Judgement of St. Francis by Nicolas Flagello.
November — Jonel Perlea leads the Orchestra in a performance
of the Wheeler version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, performed only
once previously in New York.
1967
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson is honorary chairperson of the School’s
Salute to American Musical Theater presented at the Waldorf-Astoria
and repeated twice at the White House.
1968
Children’s opera theater, under the guidance of Cynthia Auerbach,
is established to present opera for children, sung by children.
1969
School president John Brownlee dies unexpectedly on January 10.
George Schick (pictured), noted opera conductor and music director
of the Metropolitan Opera Studio, is appointed president and assumes
office in the fall term, (president until 1976).
Josephine Whitford begins the School’s first comprehensive
alumni mailing list.
 September
— The School moves to 120 Claremont Avenue.
1970
John C. Borden Auditorium dedication concert is held on January
31. 
A special event introduces alumni to the new building.
October 14 — The School sponsors a Salute to Jack Benny at
the Waldorf-Astoria. Dick Cavett is master of ceremonies for a program
which features members of the School’s Orchestra conducted
by Anton Coppola.
Classes are suspended as students organize concerts in memory of
those slain during the Kent State protests.
1971
An official charter establishes an independent Alumni Association.
 A
group of alumni organize an effort to redeem the stone seal from
the old building (pictured) by contracting stone cutters working
on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The first Alumni Award is announced at Commencement.
1974
Amendment to the charter authorizes the granting of the doctor
of musical arts degree.
1975
An alumni event is held celebrating violin faculty member Raphael
Bronstein and featuring his student Elmar Oliveira, the first and
only American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky
International Competition.
Class of 1975 refurbish lounge in John C. Borden Auditorium.
1976
 The
Opera Theater mounts a production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene
(pictured are Judy Blazer as Rose and Michael Philip Davis as Sam).
Anton Coppola conducts, James Lucas directs.
Master classes are given by Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sir Yehudi Menuhin,
Gina Bachauer, Arthur Rubinstein, Abby Simon, Dame Eva Turner, Vladimar
Spivakov, and Bidu Sayao.
 John
Crosby becomes president, a position he holds until 1986 (pictured).
1977
Soprano Johanna Meier (Class of 1960) gives a benefit concert at
Alice Tully Hall for the alumni association.
1979
Jazz pianist Marian McPartland appears in concert with the Manhattan
School of Music Jazz Band.
Master classes are given by Arnold Steinhardt, John Mack, Raymond
Lewenthal, Ezio Flagello (Class of 1953), Nico Castel, Jon Vickers,
and Magda Tagliaferro.
 Josephine
Whitford, pictured c. 1960, is given an honorary doctorate for her
over 50 years of service to the School.
1980
Alumni reunion honors faculty members who have taught at the School
for 20 years or more.
Josephine C. Whitford, dean of students, retires. She is named
dean emeritus.
1981
The Business of Music: Anatomy of a Career is offered in the spring.
Taught by Richard E. Adams (Class of 1961), it is the first course
of its kind.
1983
October — Birgit Nilsson (pictured with Dawn Upshaw) teaches
a master class, her first anywhere, before a specially invited audience,
thus beginning a series of annual appearances at the School for
the next several years.
1984
American String Quartet becomes quartet in residence.
Jazz/commercial music major is announced with courses offered are
towards a master’s degree.
1985
Violinist Elmar Oliveira (Class of 1972) receives an honorary doctorate
at commencement.
1986
Gideon W. Waldrop, composer, conductor, and former dean of The
Juilliard School, becomes president (president until 1989).
Dora Zaslavsky Koch is given an honorary doctorate for her 60 years
of teaching excellence.
1987
Jazz/commercial music department offers new bachelor’s degree
program.
Jazz Orchestra wins its first Down Beat magazine “Outstanding
College Jazz Band of the Year” award, for its first recording,
Shades of Time.
March — Classical guitar legend Andrés Segovia is
awarded an honorary doctorate following a series of master classes.
President Gideon Waldrop presided over the special convocation,
where Butros Butros-Galli, Secretary-General of the United Nations,
gave the keynote address.
 Gunther
Schuller (alumnus of the Preparatory Division) is awarded an honorary
doctorate at the May commencement ceremonies.
1988
Frances Hall Ballard, a member of the piano faculty from 1932–81
and benefactress of the music library, is given an honorary doctorate.
New recording facilities and a performance space are established
in honor of Charles Myers (Class of 1965).
1989
Peter Simon, pianist and former director of academic studies at
the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, becomes president (president
until 1991).
The Honorable Richard Owen (Class of 1960), a member of the board
of trustees and a noted composer, is given an honorary doctorate.
Marc Silverman (Class of 1983) is appointed chair of the piano
department.
1990
Jazz legend Max Roach (Class of 1952) is given an honorary doctorate.
1991
Graduate Program in Orchestral Performance begins.
Professional Musical Theater Workshop is developed.
 November
3 — Soprano Birgit Nilsson is honored with a gala concert
celebrating her years of master classes at the School. Guest performers
include Ned Barth (Class of 1986), Karen Beardsley (Class of 1981),
Mignon Dunn, Susan Graham (Class of 1987), Marvis Martin (Class
of 1980), Johanna Meier (Class of 1960), Sherrill Milnes, Henry
Runey (Class of 1986), Dawn Upshaw (Class of 1984), Joseph Wiggett
(Class of 1991), and Dolora Zajick (Class of 1983), among others.
George Manahan (Class of 1976) leads the School’s Symphony.
The School’s administration incorporates the activities of
the disbanded alumni association.
1992
 Marta
Casals Istomin (pictured), formerly artistic director of the Kennedy
Center, becomes president (president until 2005).
First American Musical Theater Ensemble production, Love Songs
and Alka Selzer, is performed.
Composer John Corigliano (Class of 1963) receives an honorary doctorate.
1993
School celebrates its 75th anniversary.
The School has 875 students, having admitted 39% of 1,725 applicants.
The preparatory division has 470 students.
Alumni receptions held in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
 A
special performance program is inaugurated in the fall with Pinchas
Zukerman (pictured), offering an intensive two-year course of study
for exceptionally gifted violinists and violists.
Jazz Orchestra features guest artists Wynton Marsalis, Priscilla
Baskerville (Class of 1974), and Jon Hendricks, in a performance
of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert.
1994
May 16 — The culminating event of the seventy-fifth-anniversary
season features Kurt Masur conducting the Manhattan School of Music
Symphony in a gala concert. The concert includes the world premiere
of Manhattan Concerto by noted German composer Siegfried
Matthus, commissioned by the School for its anniversary. After intermission,
the School confers the degree of doctor of musical arts, honoris
causa, upon Maestro Masur. Alumni reunion held in conjunction
with festivities.
The Augustine Guitar Series moves to Manhattan School of Music
and presents recitals by David Russell, Eduardo Fernandez, and Julian
Bream in its first year.
New York Wind Soloists (later renamed Windscape) becomes an ensemble
in residence.
First comprehensive Alumni Directory published.
1995
Alumni Council established with 24 members.
1996
A celebration of the legacy left by Raphael Bronstein (violin faculty
from 1950–1988) is held in John C. Borden Auditorium on February
11, when alumni, faculty, friends, and colleagues gather for a gala
concert.
Jazz pianist and composer John Lewis (Class of 1953) is given an
honorary doctorate.
Videoconferencing begins at Manhattan School of Music on November
1 — esteemed French composer Henri Dutilleux is broadcast
live from Paris into Borden Auditorium at a concert which features
the New York premiere of his composition, Timbres, espace, mouvement.
A live international question and answer session allows students
and audience members to ask Maestro Dutilleux about his music, life,
and compositional process.
1997
May 18 — A second transatlantic videoconference enables the
School to bestow concurrent honorary doctoral degrees on Mstislav
Rostropovich (who is in France) and Clark Terry (who is in New York
City). President Istomin confers the honors upon both musicians
and gives her annual commencement greeting from Evian, France, where
she is engaged as the director general of the Rencontres Musicales.
Four recordings of the School’s opera productions are released
on CD: Rorem’s Miss Julie, Donizetti’s Il
campanello di notte, Britten’s Albert Herring,
and Daniel Catán’s Rappaccini’s Daughter.
Summer — Jazz Orchestra embarks on its first European tour
to the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland.
A memorial concert is held in November honoring Lillian Fuchs.
1998
April 24 — The library celebrates the installation of its
new computer catalog, ManxCat.
Ludmila Ulehla (Class of 1947) receives the first Presidential
Award for Distinguished Service for her 50 years of teaching excellence.
Jazz bassist Ron Carter (Class of 1961) and soprano Dawn Upshaw
(Class of 1985) are given honorary doctorates.
A daylong, interdisciplinary symposium on Dmitri Shostakovich is
held in September in conjunction with the Harriman Institute of
Columbia University. Yuri Temirkanov leads a reading of Shostakovish’s
10th symphony with student orchestral musicians.
Six principal musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
lead sectional rehearsals of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with
the School’s Symphony. A full orchestra rehearsal of the work,
conducted by Graziella Contratto, follows.
1999
Alumni receptions are held in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Dianne Danese-Flagello (Class of 1952), director of the preparatory
division for 25 years, receives an honorary doctorate.
July 5 — The Manhattan School of Music Summer Music Camp
opens exclusively for public school students in grades 5 through
8 from the five boroughs, created in association with the NYC Dept.
of Education and the ASCAP Foundation.
 Second
annual interdisciplinary symposium on significant composers is held
on October 12 to examine the music of Johannes Brahms. Kurt Masur
(pictured), music director of the New York Philharmonic, leads the
Manhattan School of Music Symphony in a reading of Brahms’s
Symphony No. 1.
An alumni reunion is held at the School celebrating the decade
of the 1950s.
Justin DiCioccio (Class of 1971) is appointed chair of the Jazz
Department.
2000
A gala benefit, Salute to Glenn Dicterow, is celebrated on April
10 in cooperation with the New York Philharmonic to recognize Dicterow’s
profound influence on the worlds of orchestral music and music education.
A Mendelssohn symposium takes place on October 6 and features Kurt
Masur conducting the Manhattan School of Music Symphony in Avery
Fisher Hall. This is the third annual event of its kind organized
by the School.
Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin performs in John C. Borden Auditorium
in October, offering the concert for the faculty, students, and
supporters of the School. Kissin is awarded an honorary doctorate
in the spring.
An alumni reception is held at Santa Fe Opera honoring soprano
Lauren Flanigan and former President John Crosby.
 Manhattan
School of Music constructs an additional multi-use building directly
north and adjacent to the School’s existing building. This
long-awaited facility permits the School to house students and provide
expanded facilities for both practice and performance.
2001
January — Jazz department has three ensembles featured in
performance at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference
in New York City. An alumni reception is held in conjunction with
the conference.
Dr. David Noon’s 15-year anniversary at Manhattan School
of Music is celebrated with a mini-festival that includes an alumni
reception.
May — Over one hundred student musicians from Manhattan School
of Music travel to Caracas, Venezuela for a musical and cultural
exchange with the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of
Venezuela.
At the May commencement ceremonies, faculty member Adele Addison
is awarded an honorary doctorate; Stanley Bednar (Class of 1949/54)
and Lucile Lawrence are recipients of the President’s Medal
for Distinguished Faculty Service.
The second comprehensive alumni directory is published in print
form and CD-ROM. New features of this edition include email addresses,
spouse/partner names, and up to three business/career affiliations
for each alumna/nus.
The G. Chris and SungEun Andersen Hall is dedicated and opened
in the fall, housing over 350 students. This wonderful new facility
provides our students with an increased sense of community as well
as much-needed practice rooms, doubling the practice space previously
available for our students. There are also plans for an expanded
library and two new performance spaces in Andersen Hall. SungEun
Andersen is a member of the Board of Trustees and a Manhattan School
of Music graduate, having studied piano with Constance Keene.
2002
At the May commencement ceremonies, the degree of Doctor of Musical
Arts, honoris causa, was awarded to mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick
(Class of 1983).
The fall opera production features the New York premiere of The
Seagull, a setting by Thomas Pasatieri and Kenward Elmslie
of the Chekov play.
A special internship program is announced for a selected group
of students in our Orchestral Performance program to work with the
Berlin Philharmonic during the 2003 Easter Festival in Salzburg.
Hubbard Recital Hall is given major renovations over the summer
and renamed Gordon K. and Harriet Greenfield Recital Hall, in honor
of the long-standing trustee and his wife.
Dr. Joanne Polk (Class of 1990) is appointed to head the Preparatory
Division, which is later renamed Precollege.
2003
The School’s orchestras are led in concert by such conductors
as Graziella Contratto, Sergiu Comissiona, JoAnn Falletta, Jean-Bernard
Pommier, Jerzy Semkow, and Julius Rudel, with readings given by
David Robertson and Charles Dutoit. A symposium on Berlioz is held
in Borden Auditorium. The Claremont Ensemble celebrates the music
of faculty member Ned Rorem in honor of his 80th birthday. Master
class artists include Lauren Flanigan, David Sanchez, Joseph Seiger,
Licia Albanese, Pamela Frank, Brian Zeger, Glenn Dicterow, and Anna
Moffo. Justin DiCioccio, an alumnus who was recently named assistant
dean of jazz studies, leads our Jazz Orchestra in two recordings
released this year: Sketches of Spain with guest soloist
Dave Liebman and a collection of contemporary jazz compositions
dedicated to the memory of Manny Albam, jazz faculty member who
passed away in 2002.
A new degree offering in the doctoral program is announced for the
fall: the jazz department will offer a DMA in Jazz Arts Advancement.
This degree is unique in its shared emphasis on composition, performance,
and pedagogy.
A new Web site was launched in April, providing the School with
a dynamic, comprehensive presence on the World Wide Web.
May 18 — At the commencement ceremonies, the President’s
Medal for Distinguished Faculty Service is awarded to Richard Elder
Adams (Class of 1961) and Ursula Mamlock (Class of 1957/58). Honorary
doctorates are awarded conductor/music director Paul Gemignani and
jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis.
2004
January — Manhattan School of Music is a strong presence at
the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference (IAJE)
held in New York, including the debut of the School’s Jazz
Philharmonic, and various performances by students, faculty, and
alumni. An alumni reception is held, sponsored by the Alumni Council.
March — A weeklong conducting workshop is established featuring
Maestro Kurt Masur.
May — At commencement, honorary doctorates are awarded to
Sidney Harth, the acclaimed violinist and conductor, and Constance
Keene, the renowned pianist and admired faculty member who is also
a member of the board of trustees. The President’s Medal for
Distinguished Faculty Service is awarded to Leonard Davis, Rosetta
Goodkind, and Nathan Stutch. The commencement speaker is Ara Guzelimian,
artistic director of Carnegie Hall.
Work is completed on the Peter Jay Sharp Library in the new building,
and doors open for use in the fall.
November — The inaugural event to establish the Josephine
Whitford Fund is held November 1 in John C. Borden Auditorium. For
detailed information about this fund and how to support its cause,
please click here.
2005
February — Leading American soprano and Manhattan School of
Music alumna Catherine Malfitano gives a four-part master class
series that allows a group of students to work with her privately
on interpretation, acting, projection of character, and body movement.
The project culminates in a public class on February 16.
April — Composer, conductor, and founding director of IRCAM
Pierre Boulez is in residence for a week of lectures, rehearsals,
and performances of his music.
Marta Casals Istomin, president of Manhattan School of Music since
July 1992, announces her retirement. David A. Rahm, chairman of
the board of trustees, states: “Mrs. Istomin has presided
over an extraordinary chapter in the history of Manhattan School
of Music. During her tenure, Manhattan School of Music has grown
in stature from a leading conservatory of music in the United States
to a place of international eminence. Among many new and revitalized
programs, she has, with the support and approval of the board of
trustees, brought in numerous internationally known musicians to
lead master classes and orchestral sessions, upgraded the permanent
faculty, expanded the curriculum and performance programs, added
a model distance learning program, and increased the size and quality
of the student body. Her vision and energy encouraged the trustees
to embark on a capital campaign that provided a 21-story building,
opened in 2001, that doubled the size of the campus and added many
new facilities to the School. Mrs. Istomin’s legacy is a Manhattan
School of Music that has become an extraordinary institution, staffed
by a devoted administration and faculty. She has provided a secure
platform on which we can build a great future in the community.
For this, we stand forever in her debt.”
May — The School’s 79th Commencement ceremony, which
for many years has been held in Borden Auditorium, is held at Riverside
Church. Honorary doctorates are awarded to retiring President Marta
Istomin and renowned pianist and pedagogue Claude Frank. The President’s
Medal for Distinguished Faculty Service is awarded to Joseph Robinson
and Homer Mensch (in absentia).
The Preparatory Division is renamed the Precollege Division.
The Manhattan School of Music Board of Trustees vote unanimously
on June 21 to name the distinguished American composer Robert
Sirota the School’s eighth president, effective October
2005. Dr. Sirota had been the director of Baltimore’s Peabody
Conservatory for the previous ten years.
2006
May — Held in The Riverside Church, the School’s 80th
Commencement ceremony includes the presentation of an honorary doctorate
to violinist Robert Mann. The President’s Medal for Distinguished
Faculty Service is awarded to David Noon and Constance Colby.
American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne is awarded an honorary doctorate
during the School's opening Convocation in September.
2007
Construction of a president’s residence and two state-of-the-art
performance spaces is completed in the spring. Architects and planners
Beyer Blinder Belle spearhead the design of the final phase of campus
enhancement started in 2000. The new spaces include: the Peter Jay
Sharp President’s Residence located atop the 19-story G. Chris
and SungEun Andersen Hall; the William R. and Irene D. Miller Recital
Hall, an intimate jewel box space seating 153; and the Alan M. and
Joan Taub Ades Performance Space, a multi-faceted space for informal
performances of chamber music, jazz, opera, musical theater, as
well as rehearsal space for large ensembles.
A Concert Gala was held at the Manderin Oriental in Midtown on
May 1 to raise funds and inaugurate the School’s 90th Anniversary
season. Honorees of the event were Pinchas Zukerman, Evgeny Kissin,
and Thomas Hampson. Mr. Hampson was unable to attend due to illness;
soprano Lauren Flanigan (Class of 1984) graciously agreed to step
in on short notice and sing for the guests.
May — The School’s 81st Commencement ceremony, held
in The Riderside Church, includes the presentation of honorary doctorates
to jazz musician Dave Brubeck and Manhattan School of Music Board
of Trustees Chairman David Rahm. The President’s Medal for
Distinguished Faculty Service is awarded to Sylvia Rosenberg and
Justin DiCioccio (Class of 1971).
In the fall, the School's first-ever Online Alumni Directory was
launched.
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