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When the wealthy Juilliard Musical Foundation gave the Metropolitan Opera Company $50,000 last year John Erskine, president of Juilliard's Music School, made public a list of strings to the gift. One was that the Metropolitan should pay more attention to native talent (TIME, March 13, 1933). President Erskine had taken to writing opera librettos but the Metropolitan had already scheduled the Hanson-Stokes Merry Mount for its single native venture this season. It fell to the Juilliard School last week to present Helen Retires, on which Mr. Erskine collaborated with Composer George Antheil...
...Warsaw, he made a début at 11, another in London at 19, joined the Warsaw Conservatory faculty at 21, succeeded Leopold Auer as head Professor of Violin at Petrograd Conservatory seven years later. In the U. S. he became head Professor of Violin at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, dedicated his Caprice to Charles Lindbergh...
...reading, writing, game and music rooms, an auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeteria, trade school, all with the most modern equipment. One room is an exact replica of the one in London in which George Williams, dry goods clerk, helped found the first Y. M. C. A. in 1844. The Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most of the building's total cost - $1,000,000 - was donated by the late James Newbegin Jarvie, Montclair (N. J.) sugar and coffee merchant, friend of Archibald...
...such top-notch quartets as the Musical Art, New York, Gordon, Roth. But Mrs. Coolidge is earnestly devoted not only to the highest music but to "international exchange of culture." Last week's Festival featured uncommon-run composers like Cimarosa (The Secret Marriage, sung by Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music). Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinu, Gustav Strube. The Busch Quartet played a "first any where" of Pizzetti and" a "first in the U. S." of Busch himself. This week Busch & Serkin were to play sonatas together in Washington. Then the Quartet was to play at Columbia, Yale...
...loan to be repaid in 1938 with 6% interest. The Metropolitan's chairman, Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath who is also a trustee of the Juilliard School, contradicted only the statement that the Juilliard Foundation had offered solid backing. But both he and quiet Cornelius Bliss, the boxholder who is working hardest to raise the $300,000, signified that as a mouthpiece John Erskine had overstepped his bounds...