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...guessing game that followed Bing's decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel of the New York City Opera and Hamburg's Rolf Liebermann and Composer Peter Mennin, the president of Juilliard. "I didn't even know myself until three weeks ago that I was being considered seriously," says Gentele...
Repeating one of his Stockholm innovations, Gentele intends to sponsor experimental operas by young composers in inexpensive productions to be staged, probably, in the small but well-equipped opera auditorium next door to the Met at Juilliard. Like Conductor Pierre Boulez, who takes over the New York Philharmonic next fall, Gentele thinks that the creative units of Lincoln Center should shun rivalry for artistic integration. Though he is but the latest European to win a top arts job in the U.S., he does not think America should have an inferiority complex about the Old World. "On the contrary," he says...
...came to the Stein apartment. "I learned a little math and I read a fair amount," he recalls. Only after a truant officer discovered him did Stein enter a vocational high school; it simply bored him. He dropped out, but won a scholarship in music at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Later Stein wrote music and produced a few off-Broadway shows on shoestring budgets. To make money he sold librettos at the Metropolitan Opera House. After ballet performances he sometimes bought back programs from departing customers and resold them at later performances, netting a small but perhaps significant capital gain...
...school's only noticeable lack is a properly equipped laboratory for electronic music-probably because Juilliard regards electronic composers as a threat to the traditional instrumental playing it must teach. But at least one student complained: "They should sell some of that wall-to-wall carpeting and buy some electronics equipment." Composer Luciano Berio, who teaches composition at the school, feels that electronic music is indispensable. "The curriculum is incomplete without it," he says flatly...
...settling down in their lavish surroundings, both students and faculty inevitably indulged in less serious gripes. Even the perfection of the soundproofing upsets musicians grown accustomed to the cozy cacophony of the old building. Violinist Robert Mann of the Juilliard String Quartet, for instance, finds the quiet somewhat disquieting. "I like distant musical sounds; it reminds me I'm in a conservatory." Told that a student had complained because "the library is too comfortable; I can't take notes there," Mann admitted that the opulent new building takes getting used to. "It reminds me of what my father...