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...nine, he was apprenticed to a British militia band in Guiana, hardly saw his parents again until he left the country in his early teens to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Then he went abroad, studied under Felix Weingartner in Vienna, nearly starved for five years until he got a job in England as a music critic...
...Manhattan's Town Hall at 15, with a group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...
...While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...
...again, on its 50th anniversary, over NBC. He had picked the Met's Licia Albanese for Mimi, Jan Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...
...German romanticist Robert Schumann, Juilliard's new president is New York-born, taught music for ten years at Sarah Lawrence College. Since 1938, when Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra played Schuman's Second Symphony, he has been one of the most consistently performed of contemporary composers. His most popular scores: the American Festival Overture, Fourth Symphony. Schuman still composes for three hours a day in the basement of his home before he goes off to school at noon...