Alice Tully
An Intimate Portrait
Music and philanthropy with New York's famed patron of the arts
Publication Date
Cloth: 04/01/1999
Series: Music in American Life
About the Book
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center is one of the most famous performing spaces in New York City. The woman behind it was one of the city's most influential yet most private philanthropists.In this intimate memoir, Albert Fuller draws on his close thirty-year friendship with Tully to provide a unique look at her eventful life and colorful personality. A Corning heiress, Tully trained as a singer in Europe before turning her love of music toward philanthropy. Her contributions were legion: she chaired the board of directors for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for nearly twenty-five years and served institutions from the Metropolitan Opera and The Julliard School to the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Museum of Modern Art. Fuller's portrait reveals an extraordinary individual whose public generosity was matched by private courage, a quick intelligence, unfailing social grace, and a fierce and fearless love for life.
About the Author
Albert Fuller was a musician, conductor, and professor of music at the Julliard School. He died in 2007.Reviews
"A powerful and moving book. May it inspire more Alice Tullys!"--Donald W. Krummel"Fuller has written an absorbing and convincing portrait of [Tully], and while she might not have appreciated some of the revelations in it, she could scarcely have wished for a more devoted chronicler."--Allen Hughes, Chamber Music
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