Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-07-22 08:58
ww.player wrote "What I would like to see done is for all schools to work together to limit the number of music majors, particularly in the applied areas."
Well, it's not going to happen, is it? The schools are staffed by people who make their living teaching music. These people aren't going to say: "Let's take fewer students, then you can sack half of us." They are going to take as many paying students as they can get.
Classics (Latin and Greek) teaching has declined in secondary schools (that is to say, schools for 11-18 year olds) in England. Why? Not because the classics teachers all got together and announced "What we are teaching is no use in the real world, so we'd like fewer pupils to choose our subject." It has declined because pupils decided that classics was less useful and interesting to them than other subjects on offer.
Music teaching will decline if and when aspiring musicians come to the same conclusion. There is little sign of this happening.
Meanwhile, if the conservatoires want to make later life easier for their clarinet students, they shouldn't be encouraging them to take courses in electric guitar. They should be encouraging them to take courses in maths, business studies and IT. Those are the skills most of them are going to need once they start earning a living.
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