Music: Broken Ground

Otto H. Kahn, famed financier, patron of music, disembarked from his yacht, The Dolphin, at Stony Point, a notch in the blade of the Hudson River, 35 miles from Manhattan. Attired in a light overcoat, a grey hat caressed with pearl at the brim, he trudged up a hill to a meadow.

A spade was given him. He set his foot upon its heel, drove it deep into the sod. A short time later, a chorus of 35 singers burst into song nearby.

Thus the ground was broken for the Lillian Nordica Memorial Dormitory,...

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