William Schuman composed more than 100 works during his lifetime, won the Pulitzer Prize for music, and still found time to re-shape Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School. Today, we look back at one of the country’s most powerful arts administrators. Also: jazz singer Holly Cole performs in our studio. This is an encore edition of Soundcheck.
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Holly ColeThe Life of William Schuman
Arts organizations, the problem is not that your deficits are too large, but that they are too small. That is composer William Schuman talking in 1966, when he was president of the still-in-construction-and deeply-in-debt Lincoln Center. We’ll find out if the philosophy of one of the most powerful arts administrators ...
Holly Cole
Canadian singer Holly Cole’s idea of a “jazz standard” might be Irving Berlin, or it might be the Beatles. She joins us for an in-studio performance of unconventional jazz.