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After brief stints at Claremont Men's College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With...
...high school, he "played with the dance band for money and with jazz groups for fun." Ohio State University came next, after Stoltzman was rejected by Eastman School of Music and Juilliard. At Ohio he majored in math and music, and even considered a career in dentistry. "I still thought that classical music was somebody sitting in a symphony and playing things that you didn't understand," says Stoltzman. But after some lessons with Clarinetist Robert Marcellus of the Cleveland Orchestra, he decided on graduate work in music at Yale...
This production has been transplanted from the Juilliard Theater Center, and to judge by the cast, the school is nur turing some of the best and the brightest in their craft...
Glass's musical background is strictly classical. When he was eight, he began flute lessons at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, his home town. At 14, he passed an early entrance exam for the University of Chicago and subsequently enrolled. After Chicago came five years at Juilliard as a composition student. Glass copied the cutting-edge modernists and won some prizes. But he wasn't satisfied. "To me, all of modern music sounded terrible," recalls Glass."It was purely theoretical, and I saw music as more accessible, as a sense of community...
Meanwhile, Rostropovich and his family are enjoying their new freedom and fresh celebrity. In addition to the dacha and the Moscow apartment, they keep flats in Paris and New York and one near Lausanne. Olga, 20, and Elena, 19, are studying at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Galina sang Tosca last week at Covent Garden. Friends report that her life with Slava is often tempestuous, partly because his career is rising and hers is fading; after all, Rostropovich was largely responsible for destroying her position at the Bolshoi. While Galina supported her husband's defense of Solzhenitsyn, she feels that Slava...