Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate attempt to save its life, the Metropolitan sold its independence. Price: $150,000. The buyer was the Juilliard Musical Foundation, created by the late Augustus D. Juilliard, a native of Stark County, Ohio, who migrated to Manhattan and made a fortune in textiles. As Augustus Juilliard grew old he tired of making money and opera became his interest. Nearly every night he was to be seen...
...least 10%. Then, in addition to the 14 weeks of winter opera at the old price-scale ($7 top), there must be a supplementary "popular" season in which young U. S. singers can air their talents and perhaps earn a winter engagement. (Cynical wiseacres suspected that graduates of the Juilliard Music School would find the way to the Metropolitan stage easier than other young aspirants would...
...further their aims the Juilliards demanded greater representation on the Metropolitan board.*It was not a suggestion but a command when they named as their candidates Lawyer John M. Perry, who drew up Augustus Juilliard's will, Dean Ernest Hutcheson of the Juilliard School of Music, President John ("Helen of Troy") Erskine who has long been ambitious to dictate Metropolitan policies. In exchange for its donation, the Juilliards claimed also the right to pass on the Metropolitan's new managerial force. Herbert Witherspoon, oldtime basso and now a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, was named to succeed...
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...