Klarinet Archive - Posting 001351.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] A curricular issue
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:46:33 -0500

At 01:34 PM 10/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> <><><> Bill Wright wrote:
> Roger, I think I posted all of my thoughts about non-music and
>non-performance majors a moment ago, so I won't repeat myself.
> But I wonder whether if this is a design flaw in the music school's
>curriculum? I always come back to the same issue: If a student has
>committed dollars and years to a music major, performance or otherwise,
>and if the school has accepted the student, then a promise has been made
>!!

The promise that would allegedly be made would be that the student is
required, as part of his degree program, to take a major ensemble. There
is no specification in the language as to what specific major ensemble
counts. DePaul University routinely places people in the choir who do not
make it into the ensemble on their major instrument. Many other
universities have similar solutions.

If I understand your repeated concern above, it is that you feel a student
may interpret or be led to interpret that a school's language means the
ensemble for which they want to be in. You took that to the next level of
"honesty" vs. "dishonesty."

I think I understand what you have said.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

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