| I've got a curriculum question for all of you in the know. On this thread, we've talked mostly about high-profile vocal performance B.Mus. programs for which new students must audition (BU, Indiana, Oberlin, etc.). We've also addressed the idea of going to B.A. programs at top institutions (e.g. Yale, Columbia, LACs) and augmenting the B.A. by working with a voice instructor. I'm finding however that there's a middle ground. For some B.Mus. programs, one enters without audition a B.A. curriculum which includes lessons in performance. Then at the end of the first or second year, majors may audition to go on with the applied coursework necessary to complete a B.Mus. I've found that Wooster, Furman, Wash U, U. of Georgia, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others follow this mode.
I'm sure this wouldn't be the best choice for a serious intrumental musician, but on the surface it seems that it might be more appropriate for a vocalist who will not be able to practice as much as an instrumentalist, and whose instrument is still in the process of developing. Are these "delayed audition" B.Mus. programs inherently inferior for vocalists to those at which the slection process takes place during the senior year of HS? |