The rafters of Manhattan's $20,000,000-endowed Juilliard School of Music were still shaking. The new president had just taken over35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post.
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible...
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