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...rafters of Manhattan's $20,000,000-endowed Juilliard School of Music were still shaking. The new president had just taken over-35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post...
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible adults of musicians." He explained: "Right now, when we need musical leaders in every community, we are concerned only with training virtuosi for a nonexistent market. Musical education has to be ventilated. We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
Last week, 17 years after Schillinger came to New York and two years after his death, Manhattan's classic-minded Juilliard School of Music cagily tested the Schillinger method on its summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...
White-haired Juilliard Director George A. Wedge had no fears that his students would be metamorphosed into engineers. He said cautiously: "I thought we ought to see what it's all about. A student can get many interesting ideas from the Schillinger method . . . but he needs a firm classical foundation first. [The course] will not be included in our winter curriculum...
...Several musical cuts below Juilliard's winter scholars...