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...scouts could not possibly hope to find a full bag of authentic Chinese, settled for any vaguely Oriental features. Dancer Denise Quan is really Canadian of Chinese origin. Shawnee Smith is American Indian (Hopi) and English. Vicki Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School) of Filipino-English origin. Mary Huie, of Chinese origin, was working as a clerk for Revlon when a scout spotted her on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue (she thought she was facing an attempted pickup when the stranger approached her with: "How would you like to be in a Broadway show...
Arrival by Fluke. Composer Engel started his first opera, Alfred, when he was ten ("I spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans...
...late great Bela Bartok, once dismissed as a decadent "formalist," but restored to Red favor two years ago. The hit performers of last week's festival turned out to be not Communist musicians but a clutch of wandering Americans: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the men of the Juilliard String Quartet...
...known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores that the quartet gave an additional concert for students, who almost dismantled the hall with enthusiasm. Established...
Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz...