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...lectured during the spring term of 1939 at Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Juilliard, bringing, according to Time "pleas for admission from hordes of Harvardmen...
...violinist father and a mother who was a professional accompanist, Browning followed in Cliburn's footsteps, studied with famed Teacher Rosina Lhevinne at Juilliard. He tours...
...music man replaced a soldier last week during a changing of the guard at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Elected president of the still unfinished, $142 million center (future home of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Juilliard School of Music, a repertory drama theater, and possibly the New York City Center) was Composer William Howard Schuman, 51, Juilliard's president for the past 16 years. He succeeds General Maxwell Taylor, who resigned as Lincoln Center's president last summer to become President Kennedy's military adviser (TIME cover...
Schuman immediately enrolled in a music school, later went off to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, eventually worked under Contemporary Composer Roy Harris. At the age of 34, Schuman, still a veritable novice, was appointed head of staid old Juilliard. Said an apprehensive trustee: "This will either be the greatest thing that ever happened to Juilliard or the most colossal error of our collective lives...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...