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...years, the Juilliard School of Music has played a leading role in helping the U.S. to attain a musical identity of its own. In the process, the school has largely been molded in the image of its presidents, including 51-year-old William Schuman, who recently resigned to head Manhattan's new Lincoln Center. Last week Juilliard got a new president, Peter Mennin, 39, a distinguished composer who figures he will make a good start by just keeping pace with the conservatory's present high standards...
Professional Potential. In his 16 years at Juilliard, Schuman. the man most responsible for its continuing role as the nation's No. 1 conservatory, made it flourish as never before. In place of oldfashioned theory courses, he instituted a widely discussed curriculum called "Literature and Materials of Music," which used the music of the past as text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music...
...well tested are the Juilliard philosophy and formula that at least one-third of the nation's home-trained concert artists are Juilliard alumni. Increasingly...
...Juilliard plans to enroll only students of truly professional potential. Selecting its high-caliber students, integrating Juilliard with the other parts of Lincoln Center, where it will soon move, and adding a drama wing to the school's music and dance divisions, promise to be a job that will keep Mennin as frantically occupied as any of his predecessors...
...year in Frankfurt, the remainder of his time racing by plane or in his own Volkswagen to performances with virtually every major orchestra in Europe. He is an extraordinarily accomplished guest conductor, a talent he had already well developed before he left home in the 1940s, with degrees from Juilliard and Columbia in his pocket. By then he had already collected kind reviews while leading such major U.S. orchestras as the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. Trouble was, he got no offers of a fulltime conducting post, and in 1949 he moved to Paris, later to Sweden, where...