Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President George H. Gartlan, music supervisor in Manhattan. Conductor Walter Damrosch talked proudly of his radio classes (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) which numbered some 1,500,000 last year, 5,000,000 this, with 10,000,000 estimated for next year. President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them by a tax on baseball and other public sports. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians seized the opportunity to flay "canned" music once more. His refrain: "There will be no incentive for young musicians if 200 cheap musicians...
...drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy. He is professor of English at Columbia University, an able pianist, president of the Juilliard School of Music. A false report: that Collaborators Erskine and Antheil had been commissioned by Otto Hermann Kahn, presiding patron of the Metropolitan Opera...