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Hi, Everyone,

Hope you're all having a wonderful week. Our latest interview is with Juilliard dean, Ara Guzelimian, who's currently in the Bay Area to give a talk on the life and times of pianist Alice Herz-Sommer. I had the chance to speak with the former senior director of Carnegie Hall, and asked his thoughts on this generation's approach to music-making, Herz-Sommer, his time working with Isaac Stern, and the voices (composers) of today.

As always, thank you all for reading

http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-dean-of-the-juilliard-school-ara-guzelimian

A lot of the questions were about how to get people interested in classical music, if classical music is dying, and whether modern classical musicians are too much like robots.

I feel like he probably has much more interesting things to talk about.

I find it a little disheartening that he relies on name-dropping to make his points. Isaac Stern, James Levine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stephen Hough, and Herz-Sommer are all featured prominently, but with the exception of a few composers, he misses the opportunity to tell us what current faculty and recent graduates of Juilliard are doing.