The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-14
TO AID MUSICAL ART.
The Generous Juilliard Request Will Be
a Stimulus to the Study and the En-
joyment of the Best in Music.

The will of the late A. d. Juilliard. pro
viding that great portion Of his wealth
how much more than S5,B00000 it is
not yet possible to saybe used to form
the Juilliard Musical Foundation, is one
of the most generous and interesting in
history. 1t nay prove that the gift is
not as large as the requests made in re-
cent years by certain other Americans
TO institutions-such as the Sl5,000,000
left to Yale university by John w. Ster-
ling, or the Sl5,000,000 and $7,500,000
left respectively by Isaac d. Fletcher
and j. Pierpont Morgan to the Metro
politan museum; but it is certain that
the interests of music-the whole broad
field of the art-in America have re-
ceived no such great benefaetion as this
which drops from the will of Mr. Juilliard
The 81 100000 bequest of Henry L. Hig-
ginson to the Boston Symphony orches-
ira and the 100000 left by Joseph Pu-
liter to the New York Philharmonic so.
ciety were, indeed, splendid helps to
worthy benefciaries, but Mr.. billiards
generosity goes much further, not only
in sum, but in scope.
With a wisdom to be expected from
keen man of business. the giver has left
an elastic document for the trustees of
the foundation that is to be. He leaves
the details of time, place and division to
the trustees, but his purposes are plain.
ly written: ITO aid all worthy students
of music in securing complete and ade-
quate musical education either at appro-
pirate institutions now in existence or
hereafter to be created, or from appro-
pirate instructors in this country or
abroad; to arrange for and to give with
out profit to it musical entertainments
concerts and recitals of a character APP
propriate for the education and enter
tainment of the general public in the
musical arts, and to aid the Metropoli.
tan opera company in the city of New
York for the purpose of assisting it in
the production of operas"
Thus in the briefest form this lover of
music sets forth his intentions unmis
takably, yet avoided any embarrassment
through minutia, of the men who are to
carry out the design. The apportion-
ment of the income for the various ad
vantages of the students. the general
public and the Metropolitan opera com
pany will be made according to the judg-
ment of the one or more who. because of
their association with the testator, are
familiar with his wishes The field of
the foundations generosity appears to
be local in only one particular-the pro-
vision of assistance for the opera com
pany; nor can that be viewed as a pure
ly New York organization, when its road
tours are taken into consideration. Those
who have watched the Metropolitan com
pany's struggle to keep up the standards
of grand opera in hard times will be
glad to know that help is coming and
from the will Of man who, as president
of the board of directors of the insti-
tuition, knew its needs as well as its
virtues.
The provision for concerts and recitals
for the feneral public viii give pleasure
to the ever-increasing thousands who
make up the Sunday audiences at the
Metropolitan, at Carnegie hall, and in
the dozen other auditoriums where peo-
pie seek good orchestras and fine voices.
But it is the first clause of Mr.. JUL
liard's description of the general scope
of the foundation that appeals most to
the Imagination. The aid of "all worthy
students" will does not specify that
they shall be Americans, but we fancy
that ours will be the favored nation
means the rescue from obscurity of po-
tentially fine voices, of great violinsts,
perhaps of successor TO that gentle
man who has deserted the piano for the
portfolio.
1t is a remarkable will In that it in
sures some pleasure for every person in
this town whose ear is not dead to har-
monY.-New York Sun.