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Greenspan's early background hardly pointed to a career in economics. The only child of parents who were later divorced, he was graduated from Manhattan's George Washington High School, where Henry Kissinger was a fellow student. Greenspan studied clarinet at the Juilliard School, and during World War II joined a dance band (Leonard Garment, now counsel to the President, played the sax). After a year of one-and two-night stands, Greenspan decided that he would prefer to go to college. In 1948 he was graduated summa cum laude in economics from New York University. He worked...
Romeo's servant Balthasar, though seen, has nothing to say until near the play's end, when he comes into his own. Franklyn Seales, a recent Juilliard graduate, brings marked talent to the part. He is a chap who clearly bears watching...
Died. Sholom Secunda, 79, versatile composer of 1,000 popular songs; of cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda...
Marvin Hamlisch was the youngest student ever admitted to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. For his piano audition he transposed Goodnight, Irene into different keys on demand. He was seven at the time. This year, at 29, he became the first individual ever to win three Academy Awards in one night: the first for his adaptation of Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, the second and third for the score and title song of The Way We Were. After his final sprint to center stage, Hamlisch said to the audience: "I think...
Opera Star Eleanor Steber, 57, now largely confines herself to concert appearances and to teaching at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard and the New England Conservatory. But for the American première of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave, in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the soprano sang the role of the old battle-ax aunt to Alan Titus' young Owen. Letting out all the stops, Steber, done up in Victorian rig, calls her nephew a coward for not following in the family's military tradition. How did it feel to play the heavy for a change...