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...Eileen in Wonderful Town, and she won a Tony award as Daisy Mae in Broadway's Li'l Abner. Early in her show business experience, she was taught how to go for the green. As a dappled-taffy blonde out of rural Pennsylvania, Tenafly, N.J., and the Juilliard School of Music, she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts years ago, hoping to win the evening with a long-hair practice number selected from a Juilliard textbook. "If you sing that, you will probably win," Godfrey's musical director told...
...Keally, which was planning the main building of the Brooklyn Public Library, and next with Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, who had designed the Empire State Building. In 1941, he fell in love with a pretty Nisei girl, Teruko Hirashiki, who had come from Los Angeles to study piano at the Juilliard School of Music; two months later, they were married. The date was Dec. 5, two days before Pearl Harbor. Yamasaki himself was not fired from his job during the resulting anti-Japanese outburst, even though Shreve, Lamb & Harmon were working on a number of military bases...
When the Philharmonic commissioned the symphony in 1960, Schuman was still president of the Juilliard School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant-a work more notable for its vigor and blaring momentum than for charm or lyric effects. Schuman, though he is a difficult composer to classify in any specific school, is an easy composer to recognize: in his symphonies he has shown a fascination with quirky, eccentric rhythms, a love...
...military adviser, Schuman seemed an ideal successor. He insisted that he must have time to compose: "You want an artist, I presume, not an ex-artist." The board agreed, and Schuman prepared to launch himself into what he calls his "dual discipline.'' In the less harried Juilliard days, it involved sandwiching in roughly 600 hours of composing a year between administrative responsibilities. Schuman achieved this by paying scrupulous attention to time: "When I sit down to compose, I note the time, for instance, 8:17 a.m. If I'm called to the phone, I note a loss...
Last place and $1500 were awarded to university of Michigan musical entitled Land Ho! The Juilliard School of Music production The Wildbirds came in second, and Tour de Force, presented by the Triangle Club of Princeton, tied Lute, Flute for third...