Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been commercializing his talent by acting in programs like The Aldrich Family, Superman, Renfrew of the Mounted. As a baritone, he is better than most is-year-olds, has been offered a fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music, but now inclines toward the theatre. For his interest in physics. Tommy Dix has been made an honorary member of the American Institute of Science. He is also a Boy Scout...
...orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus descended upon Café Society on its opening night, when a pale young man, one of the guests, stepped up with a clarinet. It was Benny Goodman, just recovered from long illness (sciatica). When he sent out Somebody...
...fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records were launched in Washington...
Last January the Met board of directors decided to take Mr. Morgan's advice. They launched a public campaign for contributions to help buy the Opera House, for $1,000,000. Within a month their drive had netted $300,371, including $70,000 from Manhattan's opulent Juilliard Foundation. Small contributions of $1 up, from miners, sailors, truck drivers, waiters and music critics, were expected to produce $300,000. A gift of $10,000 came from Switzerland. Last week ex-King Alphonso of Spain, mindful of the time when the Met had raised $50,000 at a benefit...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...