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dr_trumpet
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 Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Smaller undergrad programs |
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| jjtrumpet wrote: | | Those of you who went to small or lower-tiered undergraduate music programs and then pursued additional performance opportunities or degrees, how's your playing life? |
Living the dream!
Honestly, as an undergraduate at a very small school, I got to play the following orchestral works:
Shostakovich - Symphony #5, Piano Concerto
Barber - First Symphony
Tchaikowsky - Symphony No. 4 and No. 5
Ives - Unanswered Question
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Handel - Messiah
Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia, Polovetsian Dances
Wagner - Overture to the Flying Dutchman
Strauss - Til Eulenspeigel, Ein Heldenleben
Beethoven - Symphony #3, #5, #6, #7
And many more...these are just off the top of my head...
I've played professionally for many years since then, and never gotten the chance to play Shostakovich #5 again, Chichester Psalms, or Barber's First. Great works, but never again the opportunity...
The point is that, in the right situation, you can find golden opportunities to play on works you may never get the chance to play again at a small school.
And this is just the orchestral side....the jazz and wind ensemble programs were just as impressive.
AL
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kehaulani
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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What makes you think that you can't play them at a large school?
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dr_trumpet
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| kehaulani wrote: | | What makes you think that you can't play them at a large school? |
You can. The point I was making is that, when I attended a large school (and I did for my doctorate - IU Jacobs School), there were 5 orchestras, and rarely did an undergraduate student even make an orchestra. As an undergraduate, I got four years in an orchestra that was very good, and got to play great literature.
It isn't impossible to play those works at larger schools, but from what I saw as a doctoral student at Indiana, undergrads rarely got those opportunities.
AL
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Fuzzy Dunlop
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: smaller colleges |
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| blbaumgarn wrote: | | Bud Herseth went to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa I believe and sat principal in the CSO for 50? years. |
...and he got a math degree from Luther College. |
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kehaulani
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Al.
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Christian K. Peters
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 7:35 am Post subject: Smaller undergrad |
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Hello all,
I think that as long as the trpt prof gives you the tools you need to to play and to be competitive, if you want that, it is all you need. The comment made that a big name might open a door, but you got to be a player at the end, of the day really sums it up.
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