<p>This historic news made page 3 of this morning's New York Daily News, has anybody seen it?</p>
<p>Apparently the Juilliard School is closing it's Lincoln Center location through a 3 year process starting following the 2012-2013 academic year. It has purchased several facilities at Adelphi University and will officially open that campus in Long Island at the start of the 2014 school year. </p>
<p>The current building will be remodelled to become an extension of the Alice Tully complex.</p>
<p>Wow. I’m sure their new facility will be great, but losing that location seems like a bummer.</p>
<p>steph, do you have a link? I’m having trouble locating anything.</p>
<p>The timing of this announcement makes it somewhat suspect…check today’s date, folks.</p>
<p>I heard Juilliard was relocating to Coney Island which makes a lot more sense to me. ;P</p>
<p>I doubt it, the Juilliard faculty won’t want to give up going to the cafeteria, they like the wednesday tuna surprise and also ogling ABT students.</p>
<p>Not to mention the rich donors who gave to the recent renovation, who won’t have access to the cafeteria any more as well:)</p>
<p>musicprnt, I have heard, and it’s purely hearsay, that the fresh tuna for the Wednesday surprise is actually delivered wrapped in the NY Daily News. </p>
<p>Seems that it would be a viable means of packaging, with the caveat that the publication has yet to see duty lining the cat litter box.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>RichardHK - I think actually Coney Island was one of their first choices! But unfortunately it seems that the administration of Coney Island’s amusement park, along with the councils neighboring residential communities were concerned with possible noise pollution issues, and so vetoed down the move.</p>
<p>Apparently there was study done that hypothesized that the mixure of sound waves from the natural spectrogram shapes of oboe and viola instruments combined with the random live ‘noise’ frequencies of rollar coasters may possibly combine to create incredibly unpleasant and resonant overtones at high partials.</p>
<p>Musicprnt - As it happened I just talked to a friend who works at one of Juilliard’s administrative offices. It seems that the plan is to still keep the dormitory at the Rose Building. In fact, in order to help fund the moving project - all full time students in undergraduate years 1 to 3 will be required to live in the Rose Building. Part of their required room/board fee will go to buying them semester passes on the LIRR to commute to Garden City, LI.</p>
<p>They couldn’t move to Coney Island, the whales, dolphins and other species with acute hearing could not withstand the playing of Berg, Schoenberg and most Babbit pieces, and the WWF and Peta would personally lay down in front of the first bulldozers singing “we shall overcome”</p>
<p>Stephmin-</p>
<p>The MTA pass portion of the student fees would probably double the cost of attending, which would probably make them even happier, since of course the cost of tuition indicates status in the music world.</p>
<p>Welcome to April Fool’s Day…</p>
<p>April Fools???</p>
<p>Wellll, heck, I BIT: but now I’ll be more on alert for the rest of the day ;)</p>
<p>lol yup. they just finished remodling. no way they are moving.</p>
<p>All future Juilliard auditions will require:</p>
<ol>
<li>A performance, from memory, of Hindemith’s Minimax (complete with newspaper hat)</li>
<li>An interview with LL Cool J, taped two years prior to the student’s year of entry</li>
<li>Polka (except dance division)</li>
<li>A recitation of Jabberwocky in the style of Robin Williams (except drama division)</li>
<li>Composition of a 4-part chorale that quotes at least three John Williams film scores (except music division)</li>
</ol>
<p>^ #2 haaaaaa</p>
<p>Another interesting tidbit about a noted institution frequently mentioned here: [The</a> Johns Hopkins University - We’ve changed our name to John Hopkins](<a href=“Home | Johns Hopkins University”>Home | Johns Hopkins University)</p>
<p>I will wait a day or three before I amend anything on the master threads.</p>
<p>The article is very true… Everyone, I mean EVERYONE except students and faculty would say “John Hopkins” and eventually I gave up. People would ask “oh, you go to John Hopkins?” I would answer, “Yes… I go to John… Hopkins…” :(</p>
<p>violadad - LOL great article about Johns Hopkins. I live in Baltimore so the “Johns” sounds right to me and “John Hopkins” sounds really off. </p>
<p>Love the “Bob Hoskins” reference in the article.</p>