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Terry Riley’s In C performed simultaneously in New York and Tianjin

Source: The Tianjin Juilliard SchoolMarch/03/2023

In January, Juilliard announced an inaugural, interdisciplinary performance series featuring music, dance, and drama students, with four offerings in the second semester of the 2022-23 school year. Named The New Series, it includes four to six presentations each academic year and features collaborations among guest artists, creators, alumni, and students from all of Juilliard's divisions. The series combines interdisciplinary creative forces to broaden the experience of both students and audiences. This year’s events take place from January to April. 




As part of The New Series, a live collaboration between the students at Juilliard’s two campuses—in New York City and Tianjin, China— took place on February 6. Students performed Terry Riley’s iconic work In C together via Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts. The ensemble consisted of musicians in New York and Tianjin, including 16 students from Juilliard, 13 students from Tianjin Juilliard, and 3 students from the Tianjin Conservatory of Music (who performed on pipa, sheng, and accordion, instruments used in traditional Chinese music). The multimedia production also featured interactive dance videos choreographed by Juilliard students.

In C, considered one of the original works of minimalist composition, is written for no specific instrumentation and with no time signature or assigned parts. In place of more traditional notation, this one-page piece offers 53 short motifs that can be played by any instrument or combination as players follow each other over the course of an hour through the score. Every performance of Riley’s seminal composition is a unique rendition of the work.

This inaugural real-time collaboration between both Juilliard campuses and music students bridged a distance of 7,000 miles to create a single performance experience.

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