From the monthly archives:
A few weeks ago, an applicant to our undergraduate program in music composition emailed me, complaining that he was rejected without an explanation. I wrote him back an email that seemed to answer his questions, but I then did something I had never done: I offered him a free lesson.
He came today for his lesson. [...]
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It’s audition time at UCLA and many other music schools and departments around the world. Students have their hopes up that they will be beginning careers as world-famous musicians, and that schools should be so lucky to have the opportunity to train such talent. Parents assume that their children will get in, because, after all, [...]
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I’ve always been torn, and erred towards the side of abstaining from socializing with students; although many of my fond memories in college were hanging out with my profs.
Last night, one of our students, who has tremendous herding abilities, got a bunch of our class to go to an Italian restaurant in Sherman Oaks [...]
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