The Yard

04/24/2013

Hajnal Pivnick reviews The Whiskey Collection's recently released debut album, "Letters from and Old Trunk."

By HAJNAL PIVNICK The Whiskey Collection’s first album (released yesterday) “Letters from an Old Trunk” brings beautiful, soulful bluegrass tunes by wa

04/07/2013

Composer Molly Joyce interviews Nico Muhly (M.M. '04, Juilliard) on his experience in the music world.

Third-year composer Molly Joyce sits down with the composer and Juilliard alum to discuss his training, composition, and how to make it in the music industry.

04/07/2013

Composer and pianist Peng-Peng Gong unveils his "Love Triangle for the Left Hand," written for The Yard (YWV 4).

Each month we will publish a new piece composed specifically for the The Yard, gradually compiling a Yard-Werke-Verzeichnis (YWV), “Catalogue of Yard Works.”

04/07/2013

Pianist Peter Dugan weighs in on the gun debate, armed with the ablative absolute.

By PETER DUGAN Debates over gun control have been fierce in the last several months. It’s a battle between powerful and diametrically opposed forces: the

03/31/2013

Jacob Snow on the challenges and discontents of life in the audition circuit.

By JACOB SNOW The level of performance today is astounding. Forget about the Big Five Orchestras (Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Boston). Au

03/31/2013

Alana Murphy on the transition from piano performance to musicology.

By ALANA MURPHY Hi, I’m Alana and I’m a musicologist. Wow. It feels weird to finally say that out loud—it makes it real, you know? And I was

03/31/2013

The Backyard and Forbes presents its '80 Over 80 in Classical Music'

In sum, they represent the best and brightest of the concert-coughing, hearing-aid-buzzing, Asian-name-fudging, whisper-shouting characters that color Juilliard

03/21/2013

Grumpy Cat makes a special guest appearance in the Meme of the Month for March: http://www.theyardpress.com/2013/03/21/meme-of-the-month-2/

03/21/2013

Gnome shares his 'Dos and Don'ts' of the audition process.

Gnome’s inbox has been inundated with hundreds of questions from prospective students about the audition experience at Juilliard. Rather than answer them each

03/21/2013

Violinist Hajnal Pivnick reviews a recent art installation at the Armory.

By HAJNAL PIVNICK Big city dwellers are drawn to public places where they can relax, meditate, concentrate, reflect, or to escape their cubicle, studio apart

03/21/2013

Benjamin Laude reports on the developments in Juilliard's global initiatives in China and Latin America.

By BENJAMIN LAUDE In late February, the Juilliard Student Council hosted an open discussion on the school’s global initiatives around the world. The Yard fi

02/13/2013

As Obama wraps up his State of the Union Address, cellist Nicholas Finch and pianist Benjamin Laude engage in the first round of what will be an ongoing debate about the President's first term and the prospects of his second.

If on the night of November 4, 2008, a banshee appeared to foretell of the Republican Party’s then impending demise, this past fall’s elections could be seen as a death knell for the whole American right-wing.