James Madison's New Policy

Momsinger
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:39:58 +0000

My daughter just started at JMU last week, first week of classes finishing up. It’s way too early to report much, but stay tuned, because I will be giving reports to the forum.

JMU is a non-auditioned program (or optional audition). My D reports that there are 28 new declared MT majors in the freshman class! The prior year there were 6. There’s a new director of MT, so presumably changes will be coming. Hopefully one of the changes will be to institute private voice lessons for MT majors. At the present time, the only way a theater major can get private voice lessons is to establish a connection with a voice teacher willing to take them on, and their schedules are pretty much full with music majors. This is, of course, not good. We were fortunate in that one of the new voice faculty is a friend and colleague of mine (I’m a professional singer) and we were therefore able to get her private lessons with him.

Further info will come.