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Re: Juilliard

Author: paulwl
Date: 2004-01-25 00:58

I attended night school at Juilliard for a year for ear training. Just being around the place two nights a week, you get quite a good idea of the atmosphere. I learned quite a bit, but I wouldn't do it again.

People have this idea that music education on this level of intensity is a soul-enriching humanistic experience. It's not. It's not meant to be. It's strictly music (or dance or acting) and the hell with everything else – including you, if you get in the way of the music. It's about building musicians, not people.

It's like those TV magazine shows they do about little girl gymnasts, except that the young people are over 18 and the goal is presumed to be loftier and more "worth it," so the criticism is mostly whispered.

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