Music: Resolving the Catch

"Their parents know they are great. Their teachers know it. But I am the first manager in their lives who thinks so too." So says a pert, raven-haired Vassar graduate named Susan Wadsworth about the 20 young concert musicians currently under her professional care. As founder, director and 50% of the staff of Manhattan's Young Concert Artists Inc., Wadsworth offers her charges a resolution of the music business's own Catch-22. It is fiercely difficult for fledgling artists to establish themselves without the help of big managers like Sol Hurok, Herbert Barrett or Columbia...

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