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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant's statement read "Yale is to be congratulated on the election to the presidency of a man whose experience in educational administration and whose distinction as a historian and teacher enable him to bring to the task unusual capacities. Professor Seymour's background of experience in the world of affairs equips him admirably to continue Yale's great tradition of leadership...
Today, Georges Enesco remains a great violinist and a gifted composer. Rumanians consider him their best conductor as well. To him they owe the beginnings of a true Rumanian school in music. For eleven years Enesco was Yehudi Menuhin's violin teacher, and the two broadcast a violin duet together last fortnight in Manhattan. Prodigy Menuhin, now 20, says: "In Enesco I have discovered what I have been searching for all my lifetime...
...when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule at Rubinstein's Moscow Conservatory. At 37 he had become a composer but he was still just a music-teacher. When Rubinstein went to 45-year-old Nadejda von Meek, music-loving widow of a railroad tycoon and Moscow's richest woman, to get her to do something for Tchaikovsky, he started more than he intended...
When Webster was 13, his father left the Conservatory to take the whole family abroad. The boy was placed under the famous Pianist-Teacher Isidor Philipp, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, three years later at Paris Conservatory of Music. At 18, he won first prize in the Conservatory's piano competition, is still the only U. S. pianist who can boast that honor...
...outstanding Classics scholars in America, Professor Gulick not only was known to generations of students as an exceptionally able teacher, but at the same time made important contributions to modern knowledge of the ancient Greeks...