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...years, the Juilliard School of Music has played a leading role in helping the U.S. to attain a musical identity of its own. In the process, the school has largely been molded in the image of its presidents, including 51-year-old William Schuman, who recently resigned to head Manhattan's new Lincoln Center. Last week Juilliard got a new president, Peter Mennin, 39, a distinguished composer who figures he will make a good start by just keeping pace with the conservatory's present high standards...
...YORK UNIVERSITY William H. Schuman, composer, president, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Mus.D...
There aren't enough competent players for a second team, but backs Tom O'Connor of Columbia, back Bill Grana of Harvard Schuman of Princeton deserve mention--granted, of course, that anybody does...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...Schuman still spends some 600 hours each year composing music, but the gigantic task of whipping Lincoln Center into shape may force him to cut back on that rigorous schedule. "All the words about Lincoln Center have been spoken," said he last week. "Now we must make them realities through specific projects." Schuman is already turning several projects over in his mind, but he insists, "I don't want to announce any plans that are half-baked." If his plans are still vague, William Schuman's dream is not: "It is to make Lincoln Center a dynamic...