Man of All Hats; Ken Rowland - Singer, Set Designer, Star - Bows Out
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The fifth-generation Marinite entered the local spotlight in 1960 as an opera singer. A slow bloomer, he made up for lost time with a broad reach. "I started a little late, but I've done a lot of things," he says. After taking on numerous lead tenor roles along the regional opera circuit, he returned to school in his 40s to study music at Dominican College (now a university), a move that preceded an artistic shift to musical theater. Key roles in The Sound of Music, Kismet, My Fair Lady and other shows followed. An opera workshop he was asked to run while at Dominican spurred [Ken Rowland]'s interest in set design. "I got a few pieces of wood and cardboard and started making a set," he recalls. The workshop experiments led to the creation of a host of "sparse, stylized sets" for area opera companies, then for the Ross Valley Players, where Rowland has been an indispensable fixture for a quarter-century now.
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Man of All Hats; Ken Rowland - Singer, Set Designer, Star - Bows Out
Never underestimate the passion and power of locally based performing arts, a lesson I took to heart years ago in the unlikely setting of small-town South Carolina. Ther...
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