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Last January the Met board of directors decided to take Mr. Morgan's advice. They launched a public campaign for contributions to help buy the Opera House, for $1,000,000. Within a month their drive had netted $300,371, including $70,000 from Manhattan's opulent Juilliard Foundation. Small contributions of $1 up, from miners, sailors, truck drivers, waiters and music critics, were expected to produce $300,000. A gift of $10,000 came from Switzerland. Last week ex-King Alphonso of Spain, mindful of the time when the Met had raised $50,000 at a benefit...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...
Annamary Dickey, as fetching as a cinema heroine, reached the top the way a cinema heroine should. A college and Juilliard School graduate, she has been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start...
...most composers have been content to compose in one direction. Not so the famed, self-exiled German modernist, Paul Hindemith. Twelve years ago, before Nazi censors decided he was a Kulturbolschewist, sad-eyed Composer Hindemith dished up a whole opera in crab style. Last week an enterprising group of Juilliard Graduate School alumni gave this crab-style opera its first Manhattan hearing...
...Most sensational debut of the Metropolitan's third week was not Masini's, but that of a young (25), good-looking New York contralto, Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens. Contralto Stevens, who studied at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, had spent three years singing at Prague's New German Theatre and at the Vienna Staatsoper...