Music: Casey at the Baton

A music man replaced a soldier last week during a changing of the guard at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Elected president of the still unfinished, $142 million center (future home of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Juilliard School of Music, a repertory drama theater, and possibly the New York City Center) was Composer William Howard Schuman, 51, Juilliard's president for the past 16 years. He succeeds General Maxwell Taylor, who resigned as Lincoln Center's president last summer to become President Kennedy's military adviser (TIME cover, July 28).

Schuman, a lean, balding and relaxed man,...

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