Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
Last week in Manhattan the Schubert Memorial gave its first concert, presented Violinist Sadah Shuchari, 20 (onetime Sadie Schwartz) and Pianist Muriel Kerr, 17, both pupils of the Juilliard Foundation. External circumstances favored them. They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear...
Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...
...were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School of Music . . . distinguished author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee...