Anthony Strilko, the very best!
Tony was my roommate for more than four of my five years at Juilliard, and my best friend throughout my whole life, until his
recent unexpected death.
Tony was the very finest human being I have ever met. While I owe my
professional training and aesthetic ideals and standards to Jean
Morel, I owe just about everything in life and how to live it to
Tony. Especially how to be a friend.
Tony had an innate sensitivity and feel for just about everything in
life and an extraordinary ability to communicate it to those he felt
worth communicating it to. I could always trust Tony's advice and
judgement in anything in life that came up. Living with him and
remaining a close friend of his turned me into whatever I have become
and accomplished in this life. Morel showed me the Olympus, the
heights of uncompromising human attainment and ideals. Tony taught me
how to live with it and what to do with it.
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