Word: juilliard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing the piano at parties and funerals back home in Laurel, Miss., where her father was a carpenter. At Central State College in Ohio, she expected to take a music education degree, instead discovered her voice ("All of a sudden you open your mouth and begin"). She won a Juilliard scholarship, decided to try an opera career despite the fact that at most a dozen roles in the standard repertory are usually considered "suitable" for female Negro singers. After a rousing debut in a Juilliard production of Falstaff, Soprano Price won the lead in the world-traveling revival of Porgy...
...Palace Theater. Around a spinning turntable sit a former executive of a record company, a young philosophy major, a onetime pressagent, the former owner of a record company who is now getting his M.A. in history, and an ex-Army public-relations officer who has studied music at Juilliard. They form the music staff of The Billboard, 60-year-old amusement weekly (circ. 49,966) that has become the bible of the music trade. By picking pop tunes for listing in the paper's widely respected "Spotlight" columns, they do what almost everybody in the business tries...
...their "development of a fresh theatrical form, the musical play" (e.g., Oklahoma!, South Pacific), Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II received doctorates (of humane letters) from the University of Massachusetts. Next day Drs. Rodgers and Hammerstein did education a good turn, endowed Manhattan's famed Juilliard School of Music with a perpetual scholarship to go yearly to a promising young singer...
...LaSalle Quartet got started four years ago when its members graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School, and stepped right into a position as quartet-in-residence at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. In Leader Walter Levin's words, they quickly discovered that "there just weren't any audiences who knew about chamber music or cared about it or would turn out to hear it" in that part of the country. But the group was young (average age: 29) and hardworking ("You've got to give the public the best there is all the time...
Composer William Schuman, 42, is president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. He is also an ardent baseball fan (New York Giants) and the unofficial coach of the kids in & around his suburban New York home. It was practically inevitable that his two interests should meet, and last week they did. Schuman's The Mighty Casey, a baseball opera, had its world premiere in Hartford, Conn...