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...Elizabeth" Chisholm remembers Leontyne in those days as the girl with the "high-glee eyes" who was forever singing. She took to accompanying Leontyne at the piano, and later she occasionally had her perform at informal musicales. Between Leontyne and the Chisholms-who eventually helped send her to the Juilliard...
Leontyne finally abandoned her teaching plans in her senior year and set her sights on Juilliard and the Met.* At a concert at Antioch College Paul Robeson heard her, decided that she was marvelous, and agreed to sing at a benefit to help her musical education: the concert raised $1,000. At that point Elizabeth Chisholm went to James Price and asked permission to help Leontyne too. Says Leontyne: "I love her more for that-for asking-than for any check she ever gave me." Leontyne Price fiercely insists on distributing credit for her success-not just to "the wonderful...
Crisis at Juilliard. Leontyne's greatest stroke of luck at Juilliard was being turned over for vocal coaching to Florence Page Kimball, herself a former concert singer. The Leontyne who came to her was a "gawky, very simple child-just another student to me." Miss Kimball realized that Leontyne was more than another student after hearing her sing Mistress Ford in a Juilliard production of Falstaff. Officially. Miss Kimball was her voice teacher; unofficially, she counseled her on how to dress and carry herself, how to handle the social perplexities of a Northern city. Says a Juilliard friend...
...first will feature Robert Koff, formerly with the Juilliard String Quartet, who will lead House musicians in a public concert tonight at 8:30 p.m. The entire Juilliard Quartet will perform in a later program...
Permit me please to comment on one statement: "From Juilliard, where his early attempts at conducting were roundly panned . . ." The facts are that Krachmalnik not only held a scholarship at the school, but earned the special distinction of having been awarded a teaching fellowship...