Word: mennin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which began the evening, is an example of this ambivalence. The four movements, while containing interesting rhythmic devices and harmonic structures, were unsatisfying as individual entities and failed to form a coherent whole. Phrases caught the ear, but no meaning or emotion was conveyed. Canzona, by Julliard director Peter Mennin, was similarly unsatisfying...
...PETER MENNIN Baltimore...
...enroll only students of truly professional potential. Selecting its high-caliber students, integrating Juilliard with the other parts of Lincoln Center, where it will soon move, and adding a drama wing to the school's music and dance divisions, promise to be a job that will keep Mennin as frantically occupied as any of his predecessors...
Impeccable Innovator. At Baltimore's famed Peabody Conservatory, which he headed before accepting the Juilliard job, Mennin was a firm administrator and an impeccable dresser. He was also an innovator: he founded a new theater to present little-known operas, and an imaginative project (financed by the Ford Foundation) to find and train gifted young composers. For all that, Mennin (whose father is named Mennini) rarely arrived at his office much before noon...
...nation's foremost composers, Mennin won the first Gershwin Memorial Award, two Guggenheims, the Beams Prize of Columbia University, and awards from the Naumburg Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. By the end of the year, Mennin, best known for his vigorous Sixth Symphony, hopes to complete his seventh...