119-689: " Little Devil " is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield which was released by Sedaka as a single in 1961. The title track of Sedaka's 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits , it was a hit, reaching #11 in the US Billboard Charts . The personnel on the song included: Al Caiola , Bucky Pizzarelli and Charles Macy on guitar; George Duvivier on bass; Phil Kraus on percussion; David "Panama" Francis on drums; Romeo Penque, Sol Schlinger and Herman Yorks on saxophone; Jack Keller and Ernie Hayes on piano; and Harry Lookofsky , Julius Held, David Nadien , Paul Winter , Arnold Eidus and Julius Brand on violins. "Little Devil"
238-455: A board of trustees , executive officers , and senior administrators . The board of trustees includes approximately thirty members, with a chair and two vice-chairs, and is responsible for appointing Juilliard's president and managing the school's business affairs. Executive offices include the offices of the president and provost . Four administrators serve each as dean and director of the dance, music, drama, and preparatory divisions. There
357-467: A Spanish-language version of the song the same year that cracked the top half of Billboard' s Hot 100 chart ("Por Amor Viviremos", US pop No. 49). In late 1975, Sedaka's most successful year of his career continued as he earned yet more chart success with the release of his second Rocket Records album, The Hungry Years . This album was an American edition of Sedaka's British Polydor album Overnight Success . The first single, " Bad Blood ", hit No. 1 on
476-551: A US No. 1 hit two years later for Captain & Tennille ). This album also marked the effective end of his writing partnership with Greenfield, commemorated by the track "Our Last Song Together" (later the last hit song for Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods , whose version hit No. 95). They reunited, however, and composed together again, before Greenfield's death in 1986. From 1974 onward, Sedaka's records were issued in Europe and around
595-430: A class by themselves." Sedaka and Greenfield co-wrote " Love Will Keep Us Together ", a No. 1 hit for Captain & Tennille and the biggest hit for the entire year of 1975. Toni Tennille paid tribute to Sedaka's welcome return to music business success with her ad lib of "Sedaka is back" in the outro while she was laying down her own backing vocals for the track. "Captain" Daryl Dragon and Toni also recorded
714-492: A graduation rate of 94%. Of the undergraduate degrees, 87 were in music, 20 in dance, and nine in drama. The school conferred 132 Master of Music Degrees and eight Master of Fine Arts Degrees in drama. Juilliard has made efforts to diversify its student body and program. In 2001, the conservatory introduced a Jazz Studies Program, which Wynton Marsalis currently directs. The school launched an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) initiative in 2018, which includes
833-711: A handful of songs in German, and one single apiece in Hebrew, Japanese, and Canadian French. His English-language recordings were also quite popular internationally; "One-Way Ticket to the Blues" and "Calendar Girl" reached No. 1 on the Japanese pop charts in 1959 and 1961. He also enjoyed popularity in Latin America for his Spanish-language recordings. Many of these were pressed onto 78 rpm discs. Sedaka stated in 2020 that he
952-529: A live audition, sometimes with additional callbacks. After auditions, the school invites select applicants to meet with a program administrator. Admission to the Juilliard School is highly competitive, as it ranks among the most selective schools in the United States. In 2007, the school received 2,138 applications for admission, of which 162 were admitted for a 7.6% acceptance rate. For
1071-451: A low ebb in the late 1960s, he was able to maintain his career through songwriting. Because his publisher, Aldon Music, was acquired by Screen Gems , two of his songs were recorded by The Monkees . Other hits Sedaka wrote in this period included The Cyrkle 's versions of "We Had a Good Thing Goin'" and " Workin' On a Groovy Thing "; a Top 40 R&B hit for Patti Drew in 1968; and a Top 20 pop hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969. Also, "Make
1190-562: A major teen pop star, the pair continued writing hits for Sedaka and numerous other artists. When the Beatles and the British Invasion took American music in a different direction, Sedaka was left without a recording career. In the early 1970s, he decided a major change in his life was necessary and moved his family to Britain. Sedaka and Greenfield mutually agreed to end their partnership with "Our Last Song Together". Sedaka began
1309-484: A new composing partnership with lyricist Phil Cody, from Pleasantville, New York . After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School , Sedaka and some of his classmates formed a band called the Linc-Tones. The band had minor regional hits with songs like "While I Dream", "I Love My Baby", "Come Back, Joe", and "Don't Go", before Sedaka launched his solo career and left the group in 1957. The Linc-Tones, later renamed
SECTION 10
#17327982853581428-423: A new hit after her 1958 single " Who's Sorry Now? ". She was introduced to Sedaka and Greenfield, who played for her every ballad they had written. Francis began writing in her diary while the two played the last of their songs. After they finished, Francis told them they wrote beautiful ballads but that they were too intellectual for the young generation. Greenfield suggested that they play a song they had written for
1547-602: A note home suggesting he take piano lessons, his mother took a part-time job in an Abraham & Straus department store for six months to pay for a second-hand upright. In 1947, he auditioned successfully for a piano scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music 's Preparatory Division for Children, which he attended on Saturdays. His mother had wanted him to become a classical pianist like his contemporary Van Cliburn , and Sedaka continued to show fondness for (and capacity to play) classical music throughout his life. At
1666-454: A party in London in 1973. When John learned Sedaka had no American record label, he suggested Sedaka sign with his Rocket Record Company, Limited , and Sedaka accepted the proposition. When John visited Sedaka at his London apartment, they discussed plans for relaunching his career in the United States. John said he had "always been a Sedaka fan anyway". He went on to say: So the basic plan
1785-438: A performer's professional career. These include undergraduate and graduate programs in dance, drama, and music. Musicians and performers can also complete Artist Diploma programs in jazz studies, performance, opera, playwriting, and string quartet studies. The Pre-College Division teaches students enrolled in elementary, junior high , and high school. The Pre-College Division is conducted every Saturday from September to May in
1904-476: A personal friend; he mainly saw his work with Sedaka as a work project to bring the singer into the modern era. A year later he reconvened with the Strawberry team, who had by then charted with their own debut 10cc album, to record The Tra-La Days Are Over for MGM Records , which started the second phase of his career and included his original version of the hit song " Love Will Keep Us Together " (also
2023-507: A recording contract. His first single for RCA Victor, " The Diary ", was inspired by Connie Francis , one of Sedaka and Greenfield's most important clients, while the three were taking a temporary break during their idea-making for a new song. Francis was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked if he could read it, and Connie said no. After Little Anthony and the Imperials passed on the song, Sedaka recorded it himself, and his debut single hit
2142-703: A second-year extension and receive an Artist Diploma. The Andrew W. Mellon Artist Diploma Program for Theatre Directors was a two-year graduate fellowship that began in 1995 (expanded to three years in 1997); this was discontinued in the fall of 2006. The Music Division is the largest of the school's divisions. Available degrees are Bachelor of Music or Diploma, Master of Music or Graduate Diploma , Artist Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts . Academic majors are brass , collaborative piano, composition, guitar , harp , historical performance, jazz studies, orchestral conducting , organ , percussion , piano , strings , voice , and woodwinds . The largest music department
2261-1032: A single campus at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , comprising numerous studio rooms, performance halls, a library with special collections, and a dormitory . It has one of the lowest acceptance rates of schools in the United States. With a total enrollment of about 950 students, Juilliard has several student and faculty ensembles that perform throughout the year, most notably the Juilliard String Quartet . Juilliard alumni have won 105 Grammy Awards , 62 Tony Awards , 47 Emmy Awards , and 24 Academy Awards , including two alumni with EGOTs . Musicians from Juilliard have pursued careers as international virtuosos and concertmasters of professional symphony orchestras . Its alumni and faculty include more than 16 Pulitzer Prize and 12 National Medal of Arts recipients. In 1905,
2380-681: A slowdown in Sedaka's music sales and radio play, not unlike what he experienced in 1964 when The Beatles and the British Invasion arrived. Sedaka subsequently left Rocket and signed with Elektra Records . Sedaka met John again several times after his departure from Rocket, and he described their meetings as "cordial, but cold". The ice eventually thawed, however, and in the foreword to Sedaka's 2013 biography, John wrote of their friendship in glowing and positive terms. Sedaka recorded four albums for Elektra Records: A Song (which produced
2499-568: A song called "The Waterbug". Sedaka worked to revive his solo career in the early 1970s. Despite his waning chart appeal in the US in the late 1960s, he remained very popular as a concert attraction, notably in the UK and Australia. In 2010, as a guest on Australian disc jockey Bob Rogers' radio show, he thanked Rogers and Australian music fans for standing by him during that challenging time: "You know, Bob, in my lean years—I called them ' The Hungry Years '—it
SECTION 20
#17327982853582618-565: A task force and provides workshops for all faculty and staff. Student Diversity Initiatives provide students forums and activities to educate the community on diversity, internationalism, culture and social justice. In the same year, Alicia Graf Mack , who previously danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem , became the school's first black dance director. The school has recently invested in funding for minority students and schoolchildren to address inequalities. However, some have criticized
2737-440: Is Juilliard's string department, followed by the piano department. The collaborative piano, historical performance, and orchestral conducting programs are solely at the graduate level; the opera studies and music performance subprograms only offer Artist Diplomas. The Juilliard Vocal Arts department now incorporates the former Juilliard Opera Center. The school's non-degree diploma programs are for specialized training to advance
2856-661: Is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), with its last reaffirmation in 2020. Juilliard admits both degree program seekers and pre-college division students. The latter enter a conservatory program for younger students to develop their skills; All applicants who wish to enroll in the Music Advancement Program, for the Pre-College Division, must perform an audition in person before members of
2975-466: Is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody. After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens , Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over
3094-755: Is an additional director for the jazz program. Other academic subdivisions include the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Lila Acheson Wallace Library. The vice president holds the position of chief advancement officer and manages the development of the school. Other administrative areas include the chief operating officer and corporate secretary, the public affairs office, and enrollment management and student development. The Juilliard School has ties with higher education institutions such as Barnard College , Columbia University , and Fordham University and has associations with Nord Anglia Education for primary and secondary education since 2015. The school
3213-638: Is one of the world's largest collections of Steinway and Son's pianos in the space of concert halls and practice rooms. Pipe organs at Juilliard include those by Holtkamp (III/57, III/44, II/7), Schoenstein (III/12), Flentrop (II/17), Noack (II/3) and Kuhn (IV/85), which are located in various practice rooms and recital halls. The strings department allows students to borrow valuable historic stringed instruments for special concerts and competitions. There are more than 200 such stringed instruments, including several by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù . The Lila Acheson Wallace Library
3332-523: Is the main library at Juilliard that holds study scores, performance and sound recordings, books, and videos. The school's archives include manuscript collections with digitized holographs . The library has over 87,000 musical scores and 25,000 sound recordings. The Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections features the Igor and Soulima Stravinsky Collection, the Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Collection, and
3451-577: The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (February 1, 1975) with " Laughter in the Rain ". It was Sedaka's second No. 1 single thus far at that point in his career (after 1962's original version of " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ") and solidly reestablished Sedaka's popularity in America. Sedaka followed the success of "Laughter in the Rain" with a more politically motivated song, " The Immigrant ", inspired by
3570-470: The Emergence album. Singles from that album included "I'm A Song (Sing Me)", "Silent Movies", "Superbird", and "Rosemary Blue". Good friend and New York music impresario Don Kirshner attempted to make the U.S. release of "Emergence" a comeback for Sedaka, but the album and single releases had no appreciable success, and RCA showed little interest in promoting the album. After the failure of "Emergence" in
3689-621: The Big Five American Orchestras and half of the New York Philharmonic . Juilliard's endowment nearly tripled over the 1980s, reaching a quarter billion in the mid-1990s. Despite high tuition, on average, over 90 percent of accepted students ended up attending the school. In 1999, the Juilliard School was awarded the National Medal of Arts and became the first educational institution to receive
Little Devil - Misplaced Pages Continue
3808-601: The Eugène Ysaÿe Collection. The school acquired the Juilliard Manuscript Collection in 2006, which includes autograph scores, sketches, composer-emended proofs and first editions of major works by Mozart , Bach , Beethoven , Brahms , Schumann , Chopin , Schubert , Liszt , Ravel , Stravinsky , Copland , and other composers of the classical music canon. Many of the manuscripts had been unavailable for generations. Among
3927-592: The Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named after its principal benefactor Augustus D. Juilliard . The school is composed of three primary academic divisions: dance, drama, and music, of which the last is the largest and oldest. Juilliard offers degrees for undergraduate and graduate students and liberal arts courses, non-degree diploma programs for professional artists, and musical training for pre-college students. Juilliard has
4046-622: The Shepherd Sisters . Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted by being played such a puerile song, but Greenfield reminded him Francis had not accepted their other suggestions and they had nothing to lose. After Sedaka played " Stupid Cupid ", Francis told them they had just played her new hit. Francis' rendition of the song reached No. 14 on the Billboard charts, while it topped the UK Singles Chart . While Francis
4165-645: The adult contemporary hits "Alone at Last" and a recording of " Amarillo "), All You Need Is the Music , In the Pocket and Neil Sedaka Now . The only top-40 pop hit to emerge from the Elektra records, as well as Sedaka's last to date, was "Should've Never Let You Go", a duet between Sedaka and his daughter Dara, which had appeared on In the Pocket in 1980. Throughout the 1970s, Sedaka's former record company, RCA, reissued his 1960s-era songs on compilation LPs on
4284-528: The 1960s and 1970s, include Itzhak Perlman , Yo-Yo Ma , Leontyne Price , Kyung Wha Chung , and Pinchas Zukerman , among others. In the 1950s, the school received international attention when alumni Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky Competition . In 1968, Mennin hired John Houseman to manage the new Drama Division as director and Michel Saint-Denis as associate director and consultant. The School's name
4403-566: The 2000s. In 2006, Juilliard obtained a trove of precious music manuscripts from board chair and philanthropist Bruce Kovner that make up the Juilliard Manuscript Collection. Philanthropist James S. Marcus donated $ 10 million to the school to establish the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at the school in 2010. In 2014, Kovner gave $ 60 million for the Kovner Fellowship Program to provide expenses for exceptionally gifted students. On September 28, 2015,
4522-580: The Arts (CIA), formerly called the Music Technology Center, at the Juilliard School was created in 1993 to provide students with the opportunity to use digital technology in the creation and performance of new music. Since then, the program has expanded to include a wide offering of classes such as, Introduction to Music Technology , Music Production , Film scoring , Computers In Performance and an Independent Study In Composition. In 2009,
4641-615: The Billboard 100 and stayed there for three weeks (October 11, 18 and 25, 1975), was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was the most commercially successful individual single of his career. Elton John provided uncredited backing vocals for "Bad Blood". Despite their later falling out that resulted in Sedaka moving from Elton's Rocket Records to Elektra, Sedaka has credited John as being responsible for his successful return to
4760-710: The Boys Are" eventually became her signature song . Sedaka and Greenfield also wrote some of Jimmy Clanton 's hits, such as "Another Sleepless Night", "What Am I Gonna Do?" and "All the Words in the World". Sedaka himself recorded each of these three songs: "Another Sleepless Night" appears on his Rock With Sedaka debut album; "What Am I Gonna Do?" was the B-side of "Going Home to Mary Lou" and appeared on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings "Little Devil" and His Other Hits ; and "All
4879-827: The Dance Division, offered performance opportunities through the Juilliard Dance Theatre (1954–1958) and later the Juilliard Dance Ensemble (founded c. 1960 ), which often collaborated with the Juilliard Orchestra. For many years, the Juilliard Dance Department shared facilities with the School of American Ballet .{sfn|Olmstead|1999|pages=194–215}} In 1957, after two years of deliberation,
Little Devil - Misplaced Pages Continue
4998-933: The Glorya Kaufman Dance Studio, Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Drama Studio, the Judith Harris and Tony Woolfson Orchestral Studio, and Edwin and Nancy Marks Jazz Rehearsal Room. Recital halls include the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Paul Recital Hall, and the Morse Recital Hall. The building also houses the Alice Tully Hall , where the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center performs. Adjacent to
5117-517: The Hollywood Reporter's 2022 listing of the top-ranked music schools in the world, Juilliard ranked fourth. The Juilliard School enrolled 492 full-time undergraduates, 114 part-time undergraduates and 374 graduate students as of the 2019–2020 school year. Women made up 47% of all the students enrolled. The retention rate for that academic year was 94%. That same year, Juilliard awarded 116 Bachelor's Degrees and 140 Master's Degrees and had
5236-598: The Hot 100 in 1959 and going to No. 1 on the Italian pop charts in 1960, giving Sedaka his first No. 1 ranking. In the UK, the song spent a total of 17 weeks in the top 40, peaking at No. 3 (4 weeks). In addition, the B-side, " One Way Ticket ", reached No. 1 on the pop charts in Japan. Sedaka had dated Carole King when he was still at high school, which gave him the idea to use her name in the song. Gerry Goffin —King's husband—took
5355-772: The Hot 100: "Sunny" (No. 86, 1964), "The World through a Tear" (No. 76, 1965), and "The Answer to My Prayer" (No. 89, 1965). His other singles from this era—"The Closest Thing To Heaven", "I Hope He Breaks Your Heart", "Let The People Talk", "The Answer Lies Within" and "We Can Make It If We Try"—all missed the Hot 100, the same fate since Sedaka's third U.S. single for RCA Victor , and became commercial failures. To make matters worse, RCA Victor refused to release his new recording, " It Hurts to Be in Love ", because he had not recorded at their own studios, as stipulated by his contract. Sedaka attempted another recording of this song in RCA's studios, but
5474-654: The Institute of Musical Art (IMA), Juilliard's predecessor institution, was founded by Frank Damrosch , a German-American conductor and godson of Franz Liszt , on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to study music. Chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York , the institute became one of first endowed music schools in
5593-729: The Italian pop charts in April 1963. Cinebox videos exist for "La terza luna" and "I tuoi capricci". Sedaka's Italian diction was impressive; his recordings in Italian had very little American accent. RCA Victor's Italiana branch distributed his records in Italy and released three compilation LPs of Sedaka's Italian recordings. Sedaka also recorded an album in Yiddish ( Brighton Beach Memories – Neil Sedaka Sings Yiddish ), several songs in Spanish including "Mi Vecinita" ("Next Door to an Angel"),
5712-472: The Japanese anime television series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam . These included the two opening themes "Zeta-Toki wo Koete" (based on Sedaka's "Better Days Are Coming") and "Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete" (originally in English as "For Us to Decide", but the English version was never recorded), as well as the end theme "Hoshizora no Believe" (based on Sedaka's "Bad and Beautiful"). Due to copyright restrictions,
5831-566: The Japanese and Canadian pop charts); " Little Devil " (No. 11, 1961); " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen " (No. 6, 1961); his signature song, " Breaking Up Is Hard To Do " (No. 1, two weeks: August 11 and 18, 1962); and " Next Door to an Angel " (No. 5, 1962). For several of those songs, Sedaka was paired with Stan Applebaum and His Orchestra. Singles not making the Top 30 during this period included "Sweet Little You" (No. 59, 1961) and "King of Clowns" (No. 45, 1962). RCA Victor issued four LPs of his works in
5950-543: The Juilliard Building at Lincoln Center. All students study solfège and music theory in addition to their primary instrument. Vocal majors must also study diction and performance. Similarly, pianists must study piano performance. String, brass and woodwind players, as well as percussionists, also participate in orchestra. The pre-college has two orchestras, the Pre-College Symphony (PCS) and
6069-711: The Juilliard Chinese Student & Scholars Association (J-CSSA), the Juilliard Christian Fellowship (JCF) and the Juilliard Green Club, among others. Juilliard does not have any fraternities or sororities . In the 1980s, Juilliard students assembled an ice hockey team called the Fighting Penguins to compete against a faculty team. The naming of the teams became the first usage of the penguin as
SECTION 50
#17327982853586188-419: The Juilliard School announced a major expansion into Tianjin during a visit by China's first lady, Peng Liyuan , the institution's first such full-scale foray outside the United States. The school opened in 2020 and offers a Master of Music degree program. In May 2017, retired New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel was named president, replacing Joseph W. Polisi. From March 2020 through
6307-518: The Juilliard School of Music board announced that the school would relocate from upper Manhattan to the future Lincoln Center . The Lincoln Center would cover the costs for the construction project, but the school would have to instruct exclusively advanced students, introduce a drama program and cut its Preparatory School. Juilliard's new building at Lincoln Center would be designed by Pietro Belluschi with associates Eduardo Catalano and Helge Westermann. The Juilliard School building at Lincoln Center
6426-635: The Juilliard Summer School and Music Education Program, and opened Juilliard's admission to non-Americans. Schuman discontinued the Theory Department and initiated a new curriculum called the Literature and Materials of Music (L&M), which began in 1947–1948, and was based on the assumption that musical theory education "should transfer theoretical knowledge into practical performance." Designed for composers to teach,
6545-529: The Juilliard building is the Samuel B. & David Rose Building, which is the home of the school's Meredith Willson Residence Hall, named after the composer, conductor and Juilliard alumni Meredith Willson . The building consists of student dormitories, faculty suites, and studios for visiting artists. and is also home to the School of American Ballet . Juilliard's leadership and administration consist of
6664-766: The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program after her. Juilliard's longest-serving president Joseph W. Polisi (1984–2017), helped the school modernize by developing educational outreach, formalizing and expanding its music programs, establishing interdisciplinary programs and reforming the school's finances. In 1991, Polisi founded the Music Advancement Program (MAP) to help underrepresented students affected by music education budget cuts throughout public schools in New York . Between 1990 and 1993, individual departments for all instruments and voice were established,
6783-532: The Merideth Wilson Residence Hall was built next to the school, salaries for teachers were increased, and the school hoped to accept fewer people and eventually cut 100 students to allow for more funding. In 2001, the school established a jazz performance training program. By the end of the 20th century, Juilliard had established itself as a prestigious performing arts school. At the time, graduates comprised approximately 20 percent of
6902-483: The Music Play" was included on Frankie Valli 's charting album Timeless . On a 1965 episode of the quiz show I've Got a Secret , Sedaka's secret was that he was to represent the United States at the 1966 Tchaikovsky classical piano competition in Moscow. Unaware of Sedaka's secret, panelist Henry Morgan challenged Sedaka with the fact that the Soviet bureaucracy had outlawed rock 'n' roll music, and that any Western music young Russians wanted had to be smuggled into
7021-443: The Music Technology Center moved to a new, state of the art facility that includes a mix and record suite and a digital "playroom" for composing and rehearsing with technology. Together with the Willson Theater, the Center for Innovation in the Arts is the home of interdisciplinary and electro-acoustic projects and performances at the Juilliard School. The Juilliard School has about 275 pianos, of which 231 are Steinway grand pianos. It
7140-428: The Pre-College Division to thrive, affording its graduates training at the highest artistic level (with many of the same teachers as the college division), as well as their own commencement ceremony and diplomas. In addition to Fuschi, directors of Juilliard's Pre-College Division have included composer Dr. Andrew Thomas . The current director of the Pre-College Division is Yoheved Kaplinsky. The Center for Innovation in
7259-454: The Pre-College Orchestra (PCO). Placement is by age and students may elect to study conducting, chorus, and chamber music. The Pre-College Division began as the Preparatory Centers (later the Preparatory Division), part of the Institute of Musical Art since 1916. The Pre-College Division was established in 1969 with Katherine McC. Ellis as its first director. Olegna Fuschi served as director from 1975 to 1988. The Fuschi/Mennin partnership allowed
SECTION 60
#17327982853587378-523: The RCA Victor and RCA Camden labels. Sedaka released a final album of new material with RCA, consisting of a live concert he gave in Sydney. The album was released on the RCA International label in Australia and Europe as Neil Sedaka On Stage in 1974. Mac Sedaka, Neil's father, died on June 6, 1981, of metastatic colon cancer; Neil was at his bedside singing his father's favorite song, Sedaka's 1965 song "Pictures From The Past", when his father briefly awoke from his coma before his death. Sedaka re-recorded
7497-432: The Rain". It was only the second Sedaka album ever to chart in the U.S. Sedaka was known principally as a singles artist up to that point in his career; his only other American charting album was Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits , a compilation of his early singles. Although the single was released in the autumn of 1974 and was very slow in building in sales and at radio, eventually Sedaka found himself once again topping
7616-420: The Swedish Eurovision selections on February 10, 1973, but placed third. The band, renamed ABBA , made "Ring Ring" the title track of their first album , released on March 26, 1973. The single, credited to Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anderson, Sedaka and Cody, reached number 1 in Sweden and Belgium, and charted in the top 5 in at least four other countries. Sedaka later said that ABBA's "songwriting and production are in
7735-413: The Swedish original with lyricist Björn Ulvaeus and composer Benny Andersson , intended to enter " Ring Ring " in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest and believed with strong English lyrics it had the potential to become an international hit. He sent a tape of the song together with a rough translation to Sedaka, who within days returned original lyrics, co-written with Phil Cody. The song was entered into
7854-432: The Tokens near the end of Sedaka's tenure with the group, went on to have four top-40 hits of their own without Sedaka. Sedaka's first three solo singles, "Laura Lee", "Ring-a-Rockin'", and "Oh, Delilah!" failed to become hits (although "Ring-a-Rockin'" earned him the first of many appearances on Dick Clark 's American Bandstand ), but they demonstrated his ability to perform as a solo singer, so RCA Victor signed him to
7973-490: The Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 14 in 1958. His second single, a novelty tune titled " I Go Ape ", just missed the Top 40, peaking at No. 42, but it became a more successful single in the United Kingdom with a No. 9. The third single, " Crying My Heart Out for You ", was a commercial failure, missing the Hot 100 entirely, peaking at No. 111 but reaching No. 6 on the pop charts in Italy. RCA Victor had lost money on "I Go Ape" and "Crying My Heart Out For You" and
8092-425: The U.S. pop music scene. John has stated, "I only appear on the records of people I really know or like." Another highlight from The Hungry Years was Sedaka's new version of " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ". His 1962 original, a No. 1 hit single, was upbeat; the remake was a slow ballad , which Sedaka had arranged for Lenny Welch five years prior. Sedaka's version hit No. 8 on the Hot 100 in early 1976, making him
8211-408: The US market, Sedaka left New York and moved to the UK. In 1972, Sedaka embarked on a successful British tour and was introduced by Harvey Lisberg to the four future members of 10cc (best known to American audiences for " I'm Not in Love " and " The Things We Do for Love ") with whom he recorded the Solitaire album at their Strawberry Studios in Stockport issued by RCA in 1972. As well as
8330-477: The US, with significant funding provided by philanthropist and banker James Loeb . Damrosch and Loeb's mission was to establish a musical institution with high standards of teaching and learning that would incorporate a unified pedagogy and develop a "true musical culture among all classes". Accordingly, the school would rely on its endowment to ensure the quality of instruction was independent of students' financial status. The Institute of Musical Art opened in
8449-554: The United States and Great Britain during this period, and also produced Scopitone and Cinebox videos of "Calendar Girl" in 1961, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" in 1962, and "The Dreamer" in 1963. His second LP was an album mostly of old standards. He made regular appearances on such TV programs as American Bandstand and Shindig! during this period. When Sedaka was not recording his own songs, he and Howard Greenfield were writing for other performers, most notably in their earliest days Connie Francis . Francis began searching for
8568-573: The United States from Istanbul in 1910. Sedaka's mother, Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish and Russian descent. He grew up in Brighton Beach . His father's cousin, Rachel Gorman (née Cohen), daughter of Isaac Cohen and Calo Cohen (née Sedaca or Sedaka), was married to Morris Gorman (né Garmezano; paternal uncle to singer Eydie Gormé ). Gormé's mother was of Lebanese Jewish descent. Sedaka demonstrated musical aptitude in his second-grade choral class and, when his teacher sent
8687-656: The Way to) Amarillo " ( Tony Christie ) and " Love Will Keep Us Together " ( Captain & Tennille ). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983 and continues to perform, mounting mini-concerts on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic . Sedaka was born in Brooklyn , New York . His father, Mordechai "Mac" Sedaka, was a taxi driver of Lebanese Jewish descent. Sedaka's paternal grandparents came to
8806-1103: The Words in the World" was recorded but was kept in the RCA Victor vaults until 1977, at the height of Sedaka's return to popularity, when it was released on the album Neil Sedaka: The '50s and '60s . Sedaka also contributed some work as a session pianist during his heyday as a pop singer-songwriter. His piano playing is heard on " Dream Lover ", Bobby Darin 's 1959 hit. Sedaka was very popular in Italy. Many of his English-language records were released there and proved quite successful, especially " Crying My Heart Out for You " (Italian No. 6, 1959) and " Oh! Carol " (Italian No. 1, 1960). In 1961, Sedaka began to record some of his hits in Italian, starting with "Esagerata" and "Un giorno inutile", local versions of "Little Devil" and "I Must Be Dreaming", respectively. Other recordings followed, such as "Tu non lo sai" ("Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"), "Il re dei pagliacci" ("King of Clowns"), "I tuoi capricci" ("Look Inside Your Heart"), and "La terza luna" ("Waiting For Never"). "La terza luna" reached No. 1 on
8925-419: The adult contemporary charts); Sedaka left Curb in 1986. American singer-songwriter Ben Folds credited Sedaka on his iTunes Originals album as an inspiration for his own song-publishing career. When Folds heard that Sedaka had a song published by the age of 13, Folds set a similar goal, despite the fact that Sedaka did not actually publish until he was 16. In 1985, songs composed by Sedaka were adapted for
9044-687: The award. In September 2005, Colin Davis conducted an orchestra that combined students from the Juilliard and London's Royal Academy of Music at the BBC Proms , and during 2008 the Juilliard Orchestra embarked on a successful tour of China, performing concerts as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Beijing, Suzhou , and Shanghai under the expert leadership of Maestro Xian Zhang . The school has received various gifts and donations since
9163-497: The country. Once Sedaka's secret had been revealed, he impressed the show's panelists with his performance of Frederic Chopin's " Fantaisie Impromptu ". Morgan's warning turned out to be prescient, however: despite Sedaka's classical roots, his "other" life as a pop star spurred the Soviet Union to disqualify him from entering the competition. Sedaka also made an appearance in the 1968 movie Playgirl Killer , where he performed
9282-410: The faculty and administration and must be between ages 8 and 18. The Juilliard admissions program comprises several distinct steps. Applicants must submit a complete application, school transcripts, and recommendations; some majors also require that applicants submit prescreening recordings of their work, which are evaluated as part of the application. A limited number of applicants are then invited to
9401-442: The fall semester of 2009, the school had an 8.0% acceptance rate. In 2011, the school accepted 5.5% of applicants. For Fall 2012, 2,657 undergraduate applicants were received by the college division and 7.2% were accepted. The 75th percentile accepted into Juilliard in 2012 had a GPA of 3.96 and an SAT score of 1350. A cross-registration program is available with Columbia University where Juilliard students who are accepted to
9520-542: The first Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, led the school from 1945 to 1961 and brought about several significant changes to raise the school's academic standards. In 1946, Schuman completely consolidated the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School to form a single institution and created the Juilliard String Quartet as the school's main quartet-in-residence. During his tenure, Schuman cut down enrollment by more than half, eliminated
9639-431: The former Lenox Mansion, Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, on October 11, 1905. When the school opened, most teachers were European; however, only Americans were allowed to study at the institute. Although orchestras were exclusively male, women made up most of the student population. The school had 467 students in the first year, but the enrollment soon doubled in size over the following years. Five years after its inception,
9758-596: The foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse at 49 E. 52nd Street , and established a separate new music school, the Juilliard Graduate School (JGS), in 1924. After much discussion, the Juilliard School of Music was eventually created in 1926 through a merger of the Institute and the Graduate School. The JGS moved from E 52nd Street to 130 Claremont Avenue next to the IMA in 1931. The two schools had
9877-715: The institute moved to 120 Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan onto a property purchased from Bloomingdale Insane Asylum near the Columbia University campus. In 1919, a wealthy textile merchant named Augustus D. Juilliard died and left a vast sum of money for the advancement of music in his will, which set up the Juilliard Musical Foundation (JMF) a year later as one of its primary beneficiaries. Under Eugene Noble as executive secretary,
9996-639: The items are the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony , complete with Beethoven's handwritten amendments, that was used for the first performance in Vienna in 1824; Mozart's autograph of the wind parts of the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro ; Beethoven's arrangement of his monumental Große Fuge for piano four hands; Schumann's working draft of his Symphony No. 2 ; and manuscripts of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2 . The entire collection has since been digitized and can be viewed online. Juilliard consistently ranks as one of
10115-495: The late 1950s and early 1960s, including " Oh! Carol " (1959), " Calendar Girl " (1960), " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen " (1961) and " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do " (1962). His popularity declined by the mid-1960s, but was revived in the mid-1970s, solidified by the 1975 US Billboard Hot 100 number ones " Laughter in the Rain " and " Bad Blood ". Sedaka maintained a successful career as a songwriter, penning hits for other artists including " Stupid Cupid " ( Connie Francis ), " (Is This
10234-477: The more practical-orientated curriculum would provide an overview of the "literature of music". L&M was a reaction against more formal theory and ear training, and as a result did not have a formal structure and allowed for more flexibility. Schuman established the school's Dance Department under Martha Hill 's direction in 1951, intending that students in the program would receive an education in dance , choreography , and music. The department, later renamed
10353-531: The only artist to ever record an entirely reinterpreted version of a song where both versions reached the Billboard Top 10. (Welch's version had reached No. 34.) The 1976 ballad version also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Later in 1976, Sedaka released a third and final album with Elton John's label The Rocket Record Company, Steppin' Out . The first single, " Love in the Shadows ,"
10472-686: The program are able to attend Columbia classes, and vice versa. The program is highly selective, admitting 10–12 students from Juilliard per year. Columbia students also have the option of pursuing an accelerated Master of Music degree at Juilliard and obtaining a bachelor's degree at Barnard or Columbia and an MM from Juilliard in five (or potentially six, for voice majors) years. The school offers courses in dance, drama, and music. All Bachelor's and Master's degree programs require credits from Liberal Arts courses, which include seminar classes on writing, literature, history, culture, gender, philosophy, environment, and modern languages. The Dance Division
10591-399: The remainder of his tenure with RCA Victor, Sedaka never fully recovered from the effects of Beatlemania, the loss of "It Hurts to Be in Love" to Pitney, or the failure of his recordings. RCA decided not to renew his contract when it expired in 1966, leaving Sedaka without a recording label. He went into retirement as a performing artist. Although Sedaka's stature as a recording artist was at
10710-437: The results were unsatisfactory. Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller, the song's co-writers, offered it instead to Gene Pitney . Pitney took the existing musical track, replacing Sedaka's lead vocal track with his own. Everything else was Sedaka, including his own arrangement and backing vocals, piano-playing, and usual female backup singers. Pitney ended up with a No. 7 hit for himself and his record label, Musicor , in 1964. For
10829-541: The same board of directors and president but maintained their distinct identities. Columbia University Professor John Erskine became the first president of the two institutions (1928–1937). Frank Damrosch continued as the Institute's dean, and the Australian pianist and composer Ernest Hutcheson was appointed dean of the Graduate School. Hutcheson later served as president from 1937 to 1945. Juilliard's third president, William Schuman , an American composer and
10948-652: The same time, to his mother's dismay, Sedaka was discovering pop music; his mother eventually acquiesced when Sedaka received a five-figure royalty check for his hit " Calendar Girl " in 1961. When Sedaka was 13, a neighbor heard him playing and introduced him to her 16-year-old son, Howard Greenfield , an aspiring poet and lyricist. They became two of the Brill Building 's composers. Sedaka and Greenfield wrote songs together throughout much of their young lives. Before rock and roll became popular, Sedaka and Greenfield found inspiration from show tunes . When Sedaka became
11067-470: The school scored 100 out of 100 for academic reputation and 69.2 for employer reputation for an overall score of 93.8. Juilliard and the Curtis Institute of Music were the only two American conservatories that made the top 10 in the 2022 QS World Rankings in performing arts. In another report, The Hollywood Reporter ranked the school first among drama schools in the world in 2021. According to
11186-651: The school's lack of diversity in its faculty and curriculum and focus on primarily Western Classical Music . The Juilliard Black Student Union (JBSU) was founded in the fall of 2016. A group of students established the Alliance for Latin American & Spanish Students (ALAS) in the summer of 2018. The political organization, the Socialist Penguins, was created in 2021 to encourage "anti-capitalist and anti-racist discussions." Other Juilliard clubs include
11305-417: The singer-songwriter period; Sedaka and Cody "clicked" as songwriters and began a prolonged collaboration between the two. Sedaka took a different approach to songwriting with Cody compared to Greenfield, with whom he was arguing frequently near the end of their collaboration; whereas he allowed Greenfield in the studio during recording, he met with Cody off-site to write songs. Cody did not consider Sedaka to be
11424-464: The song that same year. Sedaka left Elektra and signed with Curb Records . Sedaka recorded two albums on the Curb label – Come See About Me , a covers album, in 1983 and The Good Times in 1986. Neither of these albums fared well on the charts or in terms of sales, with only modest success for the singles that were released from them (another duet with Dara, a cover of " Your Precious Love ", reached
11543-663: The songs were replaced for the North American DVD, as well as for Japanese online releases of the series until 2017. In 1994, Sedaka provided the voice for Neil Moussaka , a parody of himself in Food Rocks , an attraction at Epcot from 1994 to 2006. Juilliard School of Music The Juilliard School ( / ˈ dʒ uː l i . ɑːr d / JOO -lee-ard ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City . Founded by Frank Damrosch as
11662-423: The songwriters' parents and by John Lennon , then facing immigration issues at the time. "The Immigrant" reached number 22 but topped the easy listening charts. In late 1972, producer Stig Anderson approached Sedaka to write the lyrics for a single by a new Swedish pop quartet then known as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Sedaka agreed, on the condition he liked the song. Anderson, who had co-written
11781-419: The spring 2021 semester, the school switched to online classes and suspended live performances in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . In June 2021, members of the student group The Socialist Penguins organized a protest against rising tuition costs after claiming that they "weren't being listened to" when meeting with president and provost about the tuition fees. In September, the school's Evening Division
11900-639: The support of Festival Records , he recorded a new LP of original material entitled Workin' on a Groovy Thing (released in the United Kingdom as Sounds of Sedaka ) at Festival Studios in Sydney. It was co-produced by Festival staff producer Pat Aulton , with arrangements by John Farrar (who later achieved international fame for his work with Olivia Newton-John ) and backing by Australian session musicians including guitarist Jimmy Doyle ( Ayers Rock ) and noted jazz musician-composer John Sangster . One of
12019-477: The title track, " Solitaire ", which was successfully covered by Andy Williams (UK Top 5 singles chart) and the Carpenters (US Top 20), it included two UK Top 40 singles, one of which ("Beautiful You") also charted briefly in America, Sedaka's first US chart appearance in ten years. "Solitaire" was the first collaboration between Sedaka and Phil Cody, whom Sedaka felt was an ideal lyricist for writing music in
12138-566: The top performing arts schools in the world. Since QS first published its QS World University Rankings for the subject performing arts in 2016, Juilliard held the top spot among academic institution for performing arts for six years. The school dropped its ranking to third place in 2022, falling behind the Royal College of Music and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . As part of Juilliard's ranking criteria for 2022,
12257-465: The tracks from the album, "Wheeling, West Virginia", reached No. 20 in Australia in early 1970. The album is also notable because it was Sedaka's first album to include collaborations with writers other than long-time lyricist Howard Greenfield; the title track featured lyrics by Roger Atkins and four other songs were co-written with Carole Bayer Sager . In 1971, Sedaka reunited with RCA and released
12376-567: The tune and wrote the playful response "Oh! Neil", which King recorded and released as an unsuccessful single the same year. Thus, this was the only time the melody of the song was used by a popular artist and a future sensation around the same time. After establishing himself in 1958, Sedaka wrote many more hits from 1960 to 1962. His flow of Top 30 hits during this period included: " Stairway to Heaven " (No. 9, 1960); " You Mean Everything to Me " (No. 17, 1960); " Run, Samson, Run " (No. 27, 1960); " Calendar Girl " (No. 4, 1961; also reached No. 1 on
12495-400: The well-known pedagogue Renée Longy to teach solfège . Mennin organized several new programs, such as Juilliard's Master Class Program and Doctoral Music Program. Under Mennin, Juilliard's international reputation grew as several alumni won competitive international competitions.{{efn|Notable alumni, who won competitive international and national competitions and led international careers in
12614-477: The world on the Polydor label. His first album of new material with Polydor was Laughter in the Rain (1974). Darby Crash referred to Sedaka as "the real godfather of punk" due to his unaffected, simple chord progressions and unpretentious lyrics, saying that Calendar Girl "had all of punk right there-you just had to get high and play that pure rock and roll just like that." Elton John and Sedaka met at
12733-490: Was Bob Rogers and Australia who welcomed me." Sedaka made several trips to Australia to play cabaret dates, and his commercial comeback began when the single "Star-Crossed Lovers" became a major hit there. The song went to No. 1 nationally in April 1969—giving Sedaka his first charting single anywhere in four years. It also came in at No. 5 in Go-Set magazine's list of the Top 40 Australian singles of 1969. Later that year, with
12852-479: Was Sedaka's first song to be translated into Italian – "Esagerata". It was also translated into German ("Crazy Daisy"), Spanish ("Diablito") and in French by Les Gendarmes ("Petit Démon"). Danish and Finnish versions were also recorded. This 1960s pop song–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Neil Sedaka Neil Sedaka ( / s ə ˈ d æ k ə / ; born March 13, 1939)
12971-466: Was Sedaka's last Top 40 hit in the U.S. until 1974. In 1964 Sedaka's career began a sharp decline, hastened by The Beatles ' arrival on the radio and TV, and the rest of the so-called British Invasion . When describing the Beatles' effect on his career in the mid-1960s, Sedaka put it brusquely: "The Beatles—not good!" He would later describe it in 2023: "after five years of hits... the bottom fell out." From 1964 to 1966, only three of his singles cracked
13090-405: Was an uncharacteristically solid rock song featuring a scorching guitar solo. While it peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100, it was the first of his three "comeback" albums' debut singles not to hit No. 1—or even the Top 10. The second single was the album's title track, once again featuring Elton on uncredited backing vocals. While it cracked the Top 40 (peaking at No. 36), it also marked the beginning of
13209-516: Was as simple as finding out what he wanted to have on his album—which turned out to be a compilation from his British albums. It had been like Elvis coming up and giving us the chance to release his records. We couldn't believe our luck. Sedaka returned to the U.S. album charts with the release of Sedaka's Back , a compilation of songs from three albums he had already recorded in the UK—namely "Solitaire", "The Tra-La Days Are Over", and "Laughter in
13328-499: Was changed to The Juilliard School to reflect its broadened mission to educate musicians, dancers, directors, and actors. The drama department first only trained actors, of which the first class graduated as Group 1 in 1972, but added playwrights and directors programs in the 1990s. Houseman founded The Acting Company in 1972, which allowed Juilliard students to perform and tour throughout the country. Also in 1972, Lila Acheson Wallace donated $ 5 million to Juilliard, which later named
13447-497: Was completed on October 26, 1969, officially opening with a dedication ceremony and concert. With Lincoln Center's prestige came a newly elevated status for the Juilliard School. William Schuman assumed the presidency of Lincoln Center in 1962 and composer Peter Mennin succeeded him. Mennin made substantial changes to the L&;M program—ending ear training and music history, adding performances and composition in class, and hiring
13566-423: Was established in 1951 by William Schuman with Martha Hill as its director. It offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts or a Diploma. Areas of study include ballet and modern and contemporary dance, with courses ranging from dance technique and performance to dance studies. Since its inception, the dance program has had a strong emphasis not only on performance but also on choreography and collaboration. The Drama Division
13685-623: Was established in 1968 by the actor John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis . Its acting programs offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Diploma and, beginning in Fall 2012, a Master of Fine Arts . Until 2006, when James Houghton became director of the Drama Division, there was a "cut system" that would remove up to one-third of the second-year class. The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, begun in 1993, offers one-year, tuition-free, graduate fellowships; selected students may be offered
13804-473: Was ready to drop Sedaka from their label; Sedaka feared he was headed for one-hit wonder status. Sedaka and his manager, Al Nevins , persuaded the RCA executives to give him one more chance. Sedaka then bought the three biggest hit singles of the time and listened to them repeatedly, studying the song structure, chord progressions, lyrics and harmonies before writing his next songs. " Oh! Carol " delivered Sedaka his first domestic Top 10 hit, reaching No. 9 on
13923-582: Was renamed to Juilliard Extension which would broaden to offer programs in person and online. In December of the same year, a $ 50 million gift was given to the school's Music Advancement Program to help students of underrepresented backgrounds. The Juilliard School occupies a single main building, the Irene Diamond Building, in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , along Broadway and W 65th Street. The Juilliard building contains several large studio rooms and performance venues, such as
14042-731: Was talked into focusing on the international markets because Elvis Presley , the biggest rock star in America, never toured overseas (largely because of Colonel Tom Parker 's desire to avoid immigration officials), and because his publishers and managers considered it a much lower risk for a new performer not to face American audiences who knew him. The year 1962 was one of the most important of Sedaka's career, with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" reaching No. 1 and "Next Door to an Angel" reaching No. 5. After this his popularity began to wane and his 1963 singles enjoyed only moderate success: "Alice In Wonderland" (No. 17), "Let's Go Steady Again" (No. 26), "The Dreamer" (No. 47), and "Bad Girl" (No. 33). "Bad Girl"
14161-421: Was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked her if he could read what she had written. Francis said no. This inspired Sedaka to write "The Diary", his own first hit single. Sedaka and Greenfield wrote many of Connie Francis' hits, such as "Fallin'" and the "Theme from Where the Boys Are ", the film in which she starred. This hit the Top 5 on the Billboard pop singles chart and Francis had several No. 1 singles. "Where
#357642