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...long work, it subsides into a reflective passage in which background vocalists solemnly intone 'DOOM DOOM DOOM' as the showers of a solo violin fall overhead. Then it culminates in an ending chant, with an Eastern/bagpipe-style guitar riff in the Tom Verlaine tradition. Who are the mystery kids? What makes them hopeless Jeffreys never pronounces. Perhaps there is no answer...
Seven years ago Diana Watt and her older brother found an old violin in their grand parent's attic. "Of course we fought over who would get to keep it," she says, "but I had no idea that it would have such an enormous effect on my life." Indeed, without that violin and the intensive lessons which followed its discovery, she probably would not have developed a serious committment to music, and would instead have remained "one of those kids who takes four years of piano and hated every minute of it." Certainly, she would not be about to become...
Although a pre-med German major who gave up playing the violin freshman year "out of rebellion," Watt insists that music has been the most important thing in her life since she was twelve. "Nothing else really meant anything to me," she says...
School for Watt was San Dominico School for Girls, a private arts-oriented high school with a strong music program. There she participated in recitals almost every week, practiced the violin for at least two hours a day, and studied music theory. "Virtually all of my friends were musicians," she says...
Nevertheless, Watt rebelled against the idea of a professional career in music. Although she admits that she was at one time good enough on the violin to have become a free-lancer or orchestra player, the thought of entering the "rat-race" of professional music seemed to her to run contrary to the whole spirit of music-making...