Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were two Juilliard trustees already on the Metropolitan board: Lawyer Allen Wardwell and Frederic A. Juilliard, nephew of the late Augustus...
...Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...
...blacks in the cast proved perfect actors. Crown is strapping Warren Coleman. Flashy, irrepressible Sportin' Life is John W. Bubbles of the dance team. Buck & Bubbles. Bess is Anne Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...
...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...