(by Jeff Weisner; crossposted from PBDB) Last year, I did some posts about auditioning and how to approach it. You can read them here andhere, but to recap the main points: – Auditions are standardized tests like the SAT. – Like any standardized test,...
(One of a series; other parts available here or at PBDB) Most of the issues that music students face when applying to graduate school are the same ones that undergraduate students face – researching teachers, figuring out what you want from the programs,...
(crossposted at PBDB) I am a hopeless political junkie, and especially in this election season, I manage to waste astonishingly large amounts of time reading a huge array of political blogs and websites. I pore over polls, read analyses and insider reports, and...
Around this time I like to point readers to the series I wrote about looking at music schools – the various parts are here, here, here, and here. Many seniors in high school and college are looking at their school choices and planning research trips around now,...
Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression. By David McGill. Indiana University Press. (crossposted at PBDB) Having introduced everybody to the influential and important American pedagogue and oboist Marcel Tabuteau in my last book...
