Author: brycon
Date: 2020-08-08 20:08
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Wait until you have your own children and see if you feel the same way.
Not to mention the conservatory faculty and staff, many of whom, from my experience, are within the at-risk age group. And I've seen anecdotal reports about possible long-term lung complications, which would be a horrible thing for any professional wind player or singer to suffer.
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> “Virtual” music is not a substitute for the real thing.
I think we can all agree on this. Neither music nor teaching will need to be done at a distance forever. Give science some time to work.
I think that online teaching is a lot like vegetarian cuisine insofar as the best vegetarian recipes are the ones that don't attempt to fool you into thinking you're eating meat. Ratatouille: delicious; vegan carnitas tacos: pass.
Trying to replicate online the traditional music-school experience isn't going to work well. It's the vegan carnitas of education. But online education has its own advantages. In an online summer course in which I taught, for example, we were able to bring in top players from around the country to give masterclasses. This sort of access just isn't possible in a traditional educational situation (unless you're studying in NYC, perhaps). Moreover, I was able to do things like screen-share a score to Mozart and do some basic voice-leading analysis, pointing things out by writing into a PDF on my ipad, as students followed along. Again, this sort of thing would be much more difficult to do in person.
I'm sure there are some very smart people who are figuring out even better things to do online. I'm hoping conservatories embrace these things and give their students a great experience during this troubling time.
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