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...rafters of Manhattan's $20,000,000-endowed Juilliard School of Music were still shaking. The new president had just taken over-35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post...
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible adults of musicians." He explained: "Right now, when we need musical leaders in every community, we are concerned only with training virtuosi for a nonexistent market. Musical education has to be ventilated. We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...German romanticist Robert Schumann, Juilliard's new president is New York-born, taught music for ten years at Sarah Lawrence College. Since 1938, when Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra played Schuman's Second Symphony, he has been one of the most consistently performed of contemporary composers. His most popular scores: the American Festival Overture, Fourth Symphony. Schuman still composes for three hours a day in the basement of his home before he goes off to school at noon...
Featuring Handel's Solomon Choruses, the program will include works by Thompson, Schuman, Sullivan, and a collection of football songs. Ethel P. Bernard of Radcliffe will assist Fine, who is directing in place of the vacationing Professor G. Wallace Woodworth...
...second concert concert will feature works by Sullivan, Schuman, and Handel. Miss Ethel P. Bernard will assist Mr. Fine in this combined concert by the Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society...