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...long spate of work with music. After leaving Pomona College as a sophomore, Cage went to Europe intending to become a writer. Instead, he studied modern music and art and returned to the United States in the mid-1930s to pursue two years of study with composer Arnold Shoenberg. It was after this stint in New York and with a new conviction that he had no ear for harmony that Cage began to usher in a new era of music...
Concert: Chamber Orchestra. Works of Shoenberg, Gershwin and Mozart. 8:30 pm. Sander's Theater. Free...
Concert: Chamber orchestra. Works of Shoenberg, Gershwin and Mozart. 8:30 p.m. Sanders Theater. Free...
Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Last week two whopping gifts brought the center a trombone-length nearer reality. From Socialite Art Patron Mrs. Vivian Allen (daughter of Department-Store Tycoon Joseph Shoenberg, one of the founders of the May Co.) came $3,000,000, to be used on a 1,200-seat repertory theater. For the general fund covering construction expenses, one member of the Philharmonic's board of directors anonymously kicked in $500,000. Total gifts so far: $28,550,000, largely from the Ford, Rockefeller and Avalon Foundations. Still needed...