missing academics with BM

jingle
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:26:18 +0000

One option would be for your kid to get a broad liberal-arts BA with a music major, then an MFA/DFA in performance if that continued to interest him. My husband started out in a piano major in a conservatory, but found it intellectually too narrow. After a year he transferred to Cornell and switched to a BA in music. He ended up with a double major in music and philosophy, and graduate degrees in both fields, but not with a performance emphasis; he’s now a professor of music theory. However, several of his friends went to Illinois and Yale from Cornell in piano performance, and have had successful careers.