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...ensemble began as the dream of a few close friends, most with Juilliard backgrounds, who had been freelancing around the new-music scene in New York City. "We would fantasize about the ideal group," Pianist Ursula Oppens told TIME'S Nancy Newman. "It would have infinite rehearsal time to prepare wonderful pieces and play them wonderfully." A pair of concerts at Manhattan's Public Theater early in 1971 and a six-week residency at Dartmouth that summer convinced them that there was a market for their dream. With the acquisition of a manager, Speculum...
Nobody gets to Carnegie Hall that way. Yo-Yo was taken to the Juilliard School and enrolled with Leonard Rose...
...when Yo-Yo first left home to go to a summer music camp, he ran into difficulties. "I became totally disorganized," he says. Even back at Juilliard and later at the Marlboro Music Festival, he "acted crazy and silly." He would go to sleep on tables, get drunk, play pranks. The solution was, of all things, to be shipped off to Harvard. There, in addition to studying music, he could meander in and out of Dostoyevsky, sociobiology, German literature...
...world of the violin we have Sanford Allen (b. 1939), who entered the Juilliard School of Music at 10, and by 20 was accomplished enough to play as a substitute violinist in the New York Philharmonic. In 1962 he became the first full-time Black player in that orchestra. Over the years he gave occasional recitals, and in 1977 he courageously decided to give up his guaranteed income from the Philharmonic in favor of a career as a freelancer and soloist...
...other hand, no past Black musicians carved notable careers as viola soloists. Enter one Marcus Thompson (b. 1946), who holds three degrees from Juilliard and has taught music at M.I.T. since...