| Shennie makes some excellent points.
Vieuxtemps, I think you are exaggerating -- there are very few violinists and pianists of the type you describe -- i.e., top talent, who go to Ivy League schools and then become professional musicians. You may be turn out to be one, but you can count them on one hand. Most of the high school age top young violinists and pianists I've seen (at Aspen, for example) will go to conservatories -- for one thing, few have the grades to get into an Ivy League school, and fewer are interested. And most of those who do have the grades and chose to go to a school without a performance program will end up giving up, or modifying, their performance ambitions. Not all. Maybe you will be one of very few. Don't be so quick to disparage those who chose other options. |