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...will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from Howard University in Washington...
...singers signed up by Manager Johnson, the only tenor and the most notable acquisition is 32-year-old Charles Kullman. A Yale graduate born in New Haven, Kullman abandoned medicine to study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and at Fontainebleau. Currently he is singing at the packjammed Salzburg music festival...
...Conference. There she discovered that Britons could sing and that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed to head the festival committee. The Alger name is big in Detroit. Old Michiganders remember the "General," rich from lumber and iron, who served President McKinley as Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick...
...Josephine Antoine, Julius Huehn and Dudley Marwick are products of the Juilliard School of Music; a Charlotte Symons has toured with the San Carlo company; a Hubert Raidich sings at the Brussels Opera. Thelma Votipka, Chase Baromeo, Carlo Morelli and Eduard Habicht have sung in opera in Chicago...
Witherspoon had been boosted for general manager by the wealthy Juilliard Musical Foundation when it gave the Metropolitan $150,000 (TIME, March iS). Witherspoon was to bring in new blood, grant the proper opportunities to young U. S. singers, whose hardships he knew from personal experience. His father, a Buffalo minister, sent him to Yale, where he majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During...