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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...
...self-styled army brat who lived in a different house each year of her life until settling at the age of thirteen in San Francisco, Watt first conducted during high school when the conductor of her county orchestra--the Marin County Youth Orchestra--offered to give her lessons. Soon the conductor, Hugo Renaldi, was letting her conduct the orchestra occasionally, as well as allowing her to lead Saturday-morning children's concerts...
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...
...Taylor said she and other staff members are convinced that the low-watt, daytime station can become solvent again. "I think we're going to go back on before April 1st," she said, adding, "We're not giving...