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...Harvard is no Juilliard, no Rhode Island School of Design, no California Institute for Arts, and for that matter, no Yale. But like just about everything else at Harvard, no matter what the rules do and don't says, just about anything is possible
Died. Marcel Grandjany, 83, French-born harpist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music; in Manhattan. Grandjany's gifts as performer and composer helped raise the harp from a musical decoration to a full-fledged solo instrument. Among his compositions: The Colorado Trail, Children's Hour, and Fantasy for Harp...
...years since, Carter has composed at an unpressured pace made possible partly by a small inheritance from his father. He lives with his wife Helen in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and does some teaching at Juilliard and Cornell. He has a studio with a piano, but of late has been more comfortable composing elsewhere-"away from the telephone, away from the requests I get 50 times a year from worthy institutions asking my advice on whether to give $20,000 to somebody else...
ELLIOTT CARTER: STRING QUARTETS NOS. 2 AND 3 (Columbia). Individual instruments may go their own melodic way in Carter's complex auditory scenarios, but the Juilliard Quartet plays with single conviction...
...into a normal sort of life," he says. He did not decide to become a professional musician until he was 14 -when he asked his parents' permission to go to New York. There ahead of him were two of his older sisters: Kyung-Wha had studied at Juilliard and was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and Myung-Wha was a pupil of first Leonard Rose and then Gregor Piatigorsky. Myung-Whun was attracted by the more personal, less competitive atmosphere of the smaller Marines College of Music and apprenticed himself to Pianist Nadia Reisenberg and recently also to Conductor...