Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Beethoven in its first English version, contributing to the New York Public Library a valuable collection of works relating to the Master, giving a large sum toward the erection of a new Festspielhaus at Salzburg, Germany. * In the U. S. * The Directors, beside Mr. Mackay, are: Frederic A. Juilliard, Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, Charles Triller, Alvin W. Krech, Arthur Judson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Scipione Guidi, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Thomas L. Leeming, L. E. Manoly, Frank L. Polk, D. Edward Porter, Walter W. Price, Elihu Root, Charles H. Sabin, Nelson S. Spencer, Maurice Van Praag. Mrs. Vincent Astor...
...Juilliard Foundation has always been generous. For a number of years it has granted foreign fellowships to advanced students of Music who have shown decided promise. The Juilliard fellows journeyed gaily to Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, inhaled the artistic atmosphere, drenched themselves in strong aesthetic traditions, acquired a priceless joie de vivre. Also, there were champagne, liqueurs and sometimes instruction at the feet of a foreign Maestro...
...this is to be changed in October. Certain objections have been lodged at the Juilliard headquarters. There have been rumors of skylarking, of the "waving of wild legs" in naughty European centres, of an inadequately intense devotion to purely artistic education. The Foundation has therefore decided to mingle stern wisdom with its generosity in the future. American control, on the spot, is to be substituted for American beneficiaries' sippings of la vie de Boh?...
...this is indicated in the release of an important statement by Dr. Eugene A. Noble, Juilliard Secretary. According to his pronunciamento, fellowships will be offered as usual (100 of them) to those graduates of music schools and of the music departments of colleges and universities, who give the greatest evidence of brilliance in competitive examinations to be held in October. But "no beneficiaries will be granted money to study abroad under this plan." Instead, the Foundation will employ teachers, operate its own studios and give daily direction to its fellowship-holders. Dr. Noble himself will keep check on their daily...
...necessary to complete St. John's, Manhattan. Biggest givers were: $250,000 from the Stuyvesants (A. Van Home, Miss Catharine E.S., and Miss Anne W.); $100,000 or more from Edward F. Albee (theatres), Vincent Astor (real estate), Arthur Curtiss James* (railroads and banks), F. A. Juilliard (finance), Frank A. Munsey (groceries and newspapers), Dr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice (explorers), J.P. Morgan...