Word: mennin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disquieting Quiet. Juilliard has always been known for looking at music with a coldly practical eye. "We want only the really great talents coming to the school," says President Peter Mennin. "Entrance exams will be tougher, the curriculum will be tightened. We're sending students out into a hard professional life...
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). A double bill leads off with the world premiere of Peler Mennin's cantata The Pied Piper of Hamelin, narrated by Cyril Ritchard and performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The second part of the program. "Old Timers' Night at the Boston Pops," includes Joan Kennedy's narration of Peter and the Wolf...
...year had raised enough money to offer some deserving prospect a year of sub sidized study and practice. Last week, at Manhattan's Juilliard School, he auditioned nine candidates from among 50 applicants around the country. The judges included Singers Nilsson and Alexander Kipnis and Juilliard President Peter Mennin. They picked not one but two winners, each of whom proved in extreme ways Melchior's dictum that no two Heldentenors are alike...
Before a competent reading of Peter Mennin's Canzona and the concluding Ten Thousand Men of Harvard the band tackled a parvum opus of Anton Bruckner: the March in Eb, "originally for street band," as Walker announced with pain. The thing never should have been arranged for modern band, and HUB was roundly hissed for it--and hissed back, according to tradition...
...Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...