<p>One of the neat things about Brown is that the arts are very much open to students who are not concentrating in the arts. There is an active program that provides private lessons to students who are not music concentrators, and there are also many other private lessons available if you don’t do it through that program. The orchestra is made up primarily of non-music concentrators, and has a special program started by Issac Stern where world class musicians come to work with and perform with the orchestra. Jean-Pierre Rampal played with them (I think just the year before he died).
There is a a flautist in Providence who I believe is well known (John Curran). He is not listed as a current faculty member, although he was. (some colorful past I think from articles) but gives lessons.
From this list of current music concentrators you can see that many are doing music as a second concentration, and are quite gifted.
[Brown</a> University Department of Music](<a href=“Music | Brown University”>Music | Brown University)
This will give yo some idea of music / flute at Brown:
[Brown</a> Web Search Results](<a href=“http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/brown?hq=inurl%3Awww.brown.edu%2FDepartments%2FMusic%2F&query=flute]Brown”>http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/brown?hq=inurl%3Awww.brown.edu%2FDepartments%2FMusic%2F&query=flute)
I wanna is correct about a capella. Many of those groups even travel and compete (sponsored also by past alum members etc)
There is also a Gilbert and Sullivan group that puts on a musical every year, in addition to I think at least one other musical on campus every year. So , yes you will find plenty of serious and non-serious music opportunities at Brown.</p>
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