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Last year, when the Juilliard String Quartet performed the entire cycle of six, Columbia saw a chance to get them all recorded in one set. Out this month, on three LP records, is the result. The performances are superb, and so is the recording...
...suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music...
...Juilliard String Quartet will give concerts today, at 5 p.m., in Paine Hall and at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders...
Schuman, who still finds time to compose despite his duties as president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and director of publications for music publishers G. Schirmer, Inc., did not quite want to say his latest work was his best: "I have no stepchildren; if I slighted one work, it would feel hurt." But he had tried to compose a work "on the highest musical plane, exploiting the virtuosity of the violin and not just showing it off." The concerto had, he said, "a good deal of melody-and melody is the bread and butter of music...
Last April, Orchestra Manager John R. Woolford commissioned Martha to compose the dance, with new music by a composer of her own choice. She picked her old collaborator, William Schuman, president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, who wrote the music for her Night Journey three years...