Best College Orchestra

musicprnt
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:00:22 +0000

They are successful orchestra musicians because they took the opportunities they had and ran with them, that is all, there are a lot of kids who are successful musicians who went other routes as well, the same way there are kids who went to Juilliard thinking it was the golden ticket found out the name itself meant very little out there, that is what I am talking about, that the name alone won’t mean much, but rather , in how well prepared the kids are. The thing is, you don’t know if those same kids went to a conservatory,. or went to another school, what would have happened, it is probably more statistically likely they would have done well at another place that prepared them well as either Harvard or Yale would. I am sure there are kids who come out of a Harvard or Yale in music who do well, whose experience there made them well prepared, but it is no more a golden ticket to grad school or careers then going to a conservatory, or going to another program is, and one thing almost anyone in the music world will tell you is that the myth of “name” is out there and strong, in Asia Juilliard especially has godlike status as ‘the place to go’ (friend of my son , who is Korean-American, visited relatives in the middle of nowhere, and all they wanted to talk about was Juilliard…which he doesn’t go to, obviously).Put it this way, the number of successful orchestra musicians, soloists, and so forth who came out of the ivy league is relatively small (off the top of my head, people like Alicia Weilerstein, Yo Yo Ma, Gil and Orly Shaham, went to Ivy league schools, but they also had artists representation and were playing with major orchestras in high school shrug), it is dwarfed by the big conservatories and programs like Rice and some of the others.