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...where she was studying voice, to audition for Schippers. After listening to her and looking at her small, shapely figure ("Rarely." wrote an Italian critic, "have we seen a physique so perfectly adapted to the role"), Schippers announced: "This is Salome." The daughter of a clergyman, Tynes studied at Juilliard, sang with the New York City Opera and on television before settling in Italy. For a while, the idea of playing Salome disturbed her. Even after the opening night performance, she knelt down in her dressing room and prayed for five minutes, "explaining to the Lord that I didn...
Slowed on the Circuit. Jackson's facility is the result of a schooling unusual in jazz-13 years of private study in piano and theory as a youngster in Philadelphia, followed by four years at Juilliard and additional work at New York University. For five years, Jackson scored musicals for MGM, finally quit over the limitations of the job. Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard...
California-born Bill Smith, on the other hand, prefers chamber works to vocal compositions, has written some highly praised pieces (Divertimento for Norvo, Concerto for Clarinet and Combo) for chamber jazz groups. Juilliard trained and, like Eaton, a Roger Sessions pupil, Smith, 34, was a fellow student with Dave Brubeck at Mills College and a charter member of the original Brubeck Octet. He is still under contract to Brubeck, is on leave from his teaching post (composition) at U.S.C...
...work progresses, Carter was so intent on emphasizing their individual identity that he instructed the performers to sit in four separate corners of the stage. (The Lenox String Quartet, which played he work at Ojai last week, refused, said the arrangement would upset their coordination, but the Juilliard String Quartet has obliged to the extent of opining up an 8-ft. gap between players...
...Back home in Cleveland, where his father is a factory worker, gifted Vince La Selva begged for and got a secondhand trumpet when he was eight. As a prized member of his high school band, La Selva was allowed to conduct occasionally, but when he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, it was to study the trumpet. At Juilliard, La Selva organized a 60-member student orchestra, later revived it when the Army stationed him at Governors Island...