Eastman Music Horizons Summer

paize038
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:50:39 +0000

My daughter was there last year for flute, and LOVED it! Yes, everyone sings, and yes, it’s a lot of work. Sundays were free days for homework, YMCA, practice, laundry, etc. They did have a park outing. She absolutely loved the conducting instructor…enough that she’s considering conduction for grad work later.

They do keep the kids pretty restricted geographically - you’re essentially only allowed to go between the dorm and the block with the music school. But there’s a good coffee shop there and a sandwich shop, plus the music library and bookstore.

Daughter is still friends with several of the people she attended with last year (possibly even your daughter, PAPDAD!). It was a very supportive environment to be around a whole bunch of seriously talented and disciplined musicians for three weeks.

One thing to note - they do NOT appear to have much medical coverage for the students. There supposedly is a “nurse” on duty, but he/she is actually a student and can’t really do much except maybe hand you a bandaid. My daughter had an allergic reaction (to eggs, we think…didn’t know she was sensitive) and they couldn’t even give her benadryl. My daughter had to find her way to the bookstore, where luckily someone was working even though it wasn’t technically open. Worker let my daughter in, got her the benadryl and stayed with her to make sure she was OK. Daughter ended up missing a day and a half of classes between the allergic reaction and the drowsiness from the benadryl, but essentially had to deal with that episode on her own.