Eastman School of Music - Score Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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it d h d of the voice department for ZO lulius M. I-luehn, professor of voice an ea years died on june 8, 1971. Cn December 21, 1935, Professor Huehn made his debut as the Herald in Lohengrin on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ' ' W t 'n Wa ner's Die Later at the Met, he became the youngest baritone to sing o an 1 g Walkiere. Frequent singing partners ' Melchior. ' In 1947, I-luehn was appointed as voice department chairman at Jordan College 111 Indianapolis where he taught until joining the Eastman faculty in 1952. Starting IH 1954, Professor I-luehn was director of the School of Music at Chautauqua d tment for seven years. Shlmmer Institution and head of its voice epar for him were Kirsten Flagstad and Lawrence , qkit 1 , ' an 154 5

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Eastman s voice department was hit hard this year with the death of Julius Huehn and also losephine Antoine. Hiell-loved hx' her students, Miss Antoine had laeen a regular memher of the department since 1900. She had been chairman of the voice department at Chautauqua Institution every summer Since 19o1. Nliss .Antoine was leading coloratura soprano at the Met from 1935 to 19-17.She also performed tor the Chicago. San Francisco, Central City and Cincinnati opera companies. The Student .Association Council made a 5150.00 contribution to the lose- phine L. .Antoine Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Chautauqua Institution. 12

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- -4'--q - A , Asagu ' ,sf-me-J, , l 5 vw , . i I x 'x ,-uv. I r 'i Q XX - lf Dr. Howard Hanson has his birthday request, the street the city plans to name for him will be the one-block alley between Swan and Gibbs Streets. 'l used to always sneak through that alley to the Rochester Club when the pressure at Eastman School got too great,' he confessedf' Times Union 1Of29f71 The University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music gave Howard Hanson a surprise brithday party at a convocation at noon in Kilbourn Hall on his 75th birthday. Emory Remington's trombone choir performed Happy Birthday cleverly combined with the familiar theme from Hanson's Romantic Symphony. Numerous congratulations were read from such eminent people as President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller. Howard Hanson expressed his gratitude for his years at the East- man School with its outstanding faculty and its gifted students , and concluded: 'fl hope we don't get too professional, musically .. , l would rather have a few wrong notes played with love than a per- fect performance without it.