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Barnum-Sized Bushel. As the first building completed in the 14-acre, $142 million Lincoln Center complex, Philharmonic Hall attracted to its stage last week a Barnum-sized bushel of musical talent. On opening night, Conductor Bernstein used not only the Philharmonic but also three choruses (the Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet...
...million Philharmonic Hall. It is still surrounded by a pocked and chugging wasteland of bulldozers and derricks, power shovels and cement mixers, which will eventually be a 14-acre landscaped park containing a repertory theater, a theater for dance and operetta, a library-museum, a building to house the Juilliard School of music, and (by 1965) the new $35 million Metropolitan Opera House. When completed in 1966, Lincoln Center will be a $142 million complex, and the most important cultural center...
...rugged style would probably be in startling contrast to the varied elegance of the four surrounding buildings: the low-slung theater originally designed by the late Eero Saarinen, Max Abramovitz' travertine-columned Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's fluted Metropolitan Opera House, Pietro Belluschi's Juilliard School of Music. The center's governing committee got Moore to look at the site, and last week, after Yorkshire-born Sculptor Moore pored over a model of the site, he agreed to take on what should be the most formidable modern outdoor piece in a public place...
TIME'S coverage of my appointment as president of Juilliard School of Music [June 22] was appreciated. However, the Ford Foundation-sponsored project at Peabody Conservatory prepares gifted young American conductors, not composers...
Impeccable Innovator. At Baltimore's famed Peabody Conservatory, which he headed before accepting the Juilliard job, Mennin was a firm administrator and an impeccable dresser. He was also an innovator: he founded a new theater to present little-known operas, and an imaginative project (financed by the Ford Foundation) to find and train gifted young composers. For all that, Mennin (whose father is named Mennini) rarely arrived at his office much before noon...