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Last week the camp neared the end of its eleventh season. A $300,000 concern, helped through depression years by friends like the Juilliard and Eastman Foundations, Carnegie Corp. and the late Sam Insull, the Music Camp offers eight weeks of fun and din to any young (10-to-18) U. S. musician with $200. About 200 youngsters attended this summer...
Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
Died. Frederic A. Juilliard, 70, director of the Juilliard Musical Foundation since the death of his uncle, Augustus D. Juilliard, its founder; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Tuxedo Park...
While his sister toured Europe, Vittorio was. content to stay home studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his daughter Abby sat on camp chairs and listened. Afterwards Mr. Rockefeller offered to help pay the expenses, paid for two concerts in 1919, for the four January concerts every year since. Rich Manhattanites like Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal, Frederic A. Juilliard, the late Charles W. Gould paid for four concerts every March...