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When the Philharmonic commissioned the symphony in 1960, Schuman was still president of the Juilliard School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant-a work more notable for its vigor and blaring momentum than for charm or lyric effects. Schuman, though he is a difficult composer to classify in any specific school, is an easy composer to recognize: in his symphonies he has shown a fascination with quirky, eccentric rhythms, a love...
...composer," says William Schuman, "and I'm also an administrator. I can't imagine a life when I couldn't do both-or each." Last week Schuman was doing both. As president of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, he turned what one associate calls his "leaping mind" to the myriad problems that follow on the center's glittering opening; as a composer, he sneaked away from his office to listen to the New York Philharmonic rehearse his new Eighth Symphony. The premiere of the Eighth, in fact, was a reminder of the unique combination of talents...
Dual Discipline. When General Maxwell Taylor resigned as Lincoln Center's president to become President Kennedy's military adviser, Schuman seemed an ideal successor. He insisted that he must have time to compose: "You want an artist, I presume, not an ex-artist." The board agreed, and Schuman prepared to launch himself into what he calls his "dual discipline.'' In the less harried Juilliard days, it involved sandwiching in roughly 600 hours of composing a year between administrative responsibilities. Schuman achieved this by paying scrupulous attention to time: "When I sit down to compose, I note...
Previous Pollak lecturers were Robert Schuman, Sir John Slessor, David A. Morse, James B. Conant, Per Jacobsson, and Lord Bridges...
Professional Potential. In his 16 years at Juilliard, Schuman. the man most responsible for its continuing role as the nation's No. 1 conservatory, made it flourish as never before. In place of oldfashioned theory courses, he instituted a widely discussed curriculum called "Literature and Materials of Music," which used the music of the past as text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music...