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Schnabel will give two lectures on "Music--Its Function and Limitations" here early next December. He succeeds Howard Hanson, of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson took over the post after its establishment in 1948. Mrs. Bertha L. Elson donated the lecture series in honor of her husband, a Boston musician and critic...
...studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...composition instructor at the Juilliard School of Music, Peter finds that "if you lead a normal life, you have more time to compose." Anyway, he says, "to be bohemian is old hat." He and his violinist wife, Georganne, 24, whom he met at Eastman and married last year, manage to stay out of each other's artistic hair by dividing up their six-room apartment on Riverside Drive: he composes in a room at one end of the apartment while she practices in a room at the other...
Levine also stated that Nicholas Slonimski, Boston music critic, had agreed to speak on the same platform with Shostakovitch. Howard Hanson, American composer and president of the Eastman School of Music, has tentatively accepted an HLU invitation to speak if Shostakovitch comes between Wednesday, April 20, and Sunday, April...
...also had a spruce new home, a roster of first-class names on its faculty and an accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music on the office wall. L.A. was not yet as famous as Manhattan's Juilliard, Philadelphia's Curtis or Rochester's Eastman, but it had climbed up into their company as the first independent and accredited four-year music school on the West Coast...