Typed letter signed "Frank Damrosch" to Seymour Halpern ("Master Halpern"), in reply to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life.
New York: February 5th, 1930.
Price: $75.00
About the item
1p. on "Juilliard School of Music" letterhead. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Fine.
Item #310038
A correspondence from the first dean of Juilliard. Reading in part" "In answer to your question ... I would say that I gave my undivided and concentrated attention to whatever I undertook to do; and that I sought opportunities to do things which were not being done and were well worth doing."
Frank Damrosch (1859-1937) founded the New York Institue of Musical Art in 1905, which merged with the Juilliard Graduate School in 1926, to become the Juilliard School, where damrosch served as the school's first dean.
