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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2003/06
From: "Philip McKenzie" <philclimb1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] study exchange + US part 2 :)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:26:47 -0400
Really all three schools, faculty, performing activities are quite good. No
bad choices among them.
That said, Columbus does have the National Champion Buckeye football team
("buckeye" is not actually translatable outside of the U.S.....uh, outside
of Columbus, OH actually). Columbus also has a professional hockey team.
It's where Jack Nicklaus grew up and it has the quality golf courses to
prove it. It has the corporate headquarters for Wendy's hamburgers, White
Castle hamburgers, and a couple of other regional restaurant chains. You'll
never cook again. It is the only of the three towns you mentioned with a
professional orchestra, currently where Gunter Wand is acting artistic
advisor. It is, by a minute or two of latitude, the furthest south and
perhaps the warmest. It is the only one of the three that is the state
capitol. With 7 days notice you can buy a round trip plane ticket to
Chicago for about $80. There's an orchestra in Chicago too. 90 minutes to
Cincinnati, 2 hours or so to Severance Hall and the Cleveland Orchestra. A
top notch oboist in the Columbus Symphony as well (Steve Secan). If you
can't hear great oboe playing while living in Columbus, you're not trying.
Now that must be plenty of ancillary information to rankle fans of Illinois
and Iowa. Brag on your school, give it your best shot.
Philip D. McKenzie
-----Original Message-----
From: doublereed-l-admin@-----.edu
[mailto:doublereed-l-admin@-----.edu]On Behalf Of Anthony
Parnther
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 6:00 PM
To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
Subject: Re: [DR-L] study exchange + US part 2 :)
Danny,
The University of Illinois is one of the largest collegiate instrumental
music programs in the nation. (If not THE largest..) There are six concert
bands at that particular institution and I know of numerous non-majors
performing in almost all of them.
Robert Sorton is the Oboe Professor at Ohio State. I happen to know him
and his wife Pam (who is also a fantastic oboist) for they coached at the
youth symphony camp near where I live. He is an incredible musician and
pedagogue, and I think you would enjoy his guidance.
These programs have web sites, take a look.
University of Illinois.... http://www.music.uiuc.edu/
Ohio State.... http://www.arts.ohio-state.edu/Music/
Best of Luck!
ARP
>From: "Danny Yee" <celestar@-----.au>
>Reply-To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
>To: <doublereed-l@-----.edu>
>Subject: [DR-L] study exchange + US part 2 :)
>Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:26:22 +0800
>
>
>Well... following on from my previous post (which was quite a long time
>ago so I don't expect anyone to remember :) )
>
>Anyway, I'm just about to apply/submit my study exchange application
>into my university to study in the US for the semester and wanted to
>choose a college which let non-major students study Oboe and participate
>in their orchestras/wind bands etc. (oh I'll be going in early 2004,
>which is 1st semester over here in Australia, which will be Spring
>semester for the US people I think.)
>
>I'm hoping there would equal opportunities for non-music majors in
>getting into orchestras/bands, because it would be terrific to
>experience this... playing in my own youth orchestra is fun, but playing
>in another country is something else!
>
>Since I can only afford/pick colleges offered by my own University, and
>must select one which offers my degree (electrical engineering) it
>limits my choices quite significantly..... anyway, I've got these
>colleges which suits these criteria:
>
>Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
>Ohio State University, Columbus
>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
>
>There were others such as University of Minnesota - Duluth
>that I haven't seen much about
>
>The question I'm hoping people on the list could answer is....
>
>Does anyone know much about these universities in terms of their
>musical/oboe opportunities..? Any experiences in general with these
>colleges... and recommendations/thoughts...?
>
>I've done some research myself in terms of their academic side but any
>information from people ACTUALLY living/going/experienced would be ten
>times better IMHO.
>
>Thanks everybody
>
>-Danny Yee
>
>
>
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