Jazz trombonist

WestOfPCH
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:19:36 +0000

The short answer to “why Peabody over New School “ for my son comes down to 2 things:

1. Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, and some of the other faculty

2. He really wanted a university with elite academics to go with an awesome jazz program.

Peabody won on both of those. There are some other specific things which I can DM you about, none of which are bad things about New School. He doesn’t have a problem with Baltimore itself, plus it’s easy enough to get to NY when he wants to go, plus he used to go to DC regularly before the pandemic. So there’s lot of variety in cities musically, culturally, and socially within easy reach.

I should add that @JeJeJe made some excellent comments. My son didn’t apply to NEC because of qualification #2 above, but we heard similar things about the school from friends whose kids applied there and researched it thoroughly.