missing academics with BM

PianoParent
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:06:51 +0000

I’m not worried about it, but I don’t think it’s too soon to start getting him some feedback from others who have dealt with the issue. My son started taking formal piano lessons when he was 6 and played in his first piano competition at 7. He loves music and seems destined to have a career in music. However, like many other musicians, he loves and is very good at math and science. In our case, I’m trying to give him a chance to see what a career in science is all about. Then again, he is planning to go back to Interlochen again this summer, not to a science camp.

Perhaps it will come down to a dual degree or some variation. There is an older organist/choral director in our town who is pushing Yale to him (she got her degree there in music). And Melvin Chen did his undergraduate work there in Physics and Chemistry. At the very least, I would like him to find out what can be done at different colleges/conservatories. Perhaps he will know enough to take one path or the other before college, but I don’t want him to think that he must do that. Everyone tells me that high school flies by so maybe that’s why I seem rushed.