Music at Davidson, Rice, Williams or St. Olaf?

jeke
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:41:23 +0000

Are you primarily a singer? Williams has a fantastic choral director (Brad Wells) and the chamber choir has a lot of great singers. The larger concert choir includes a lot of people who sing more recreationally, myself included, and we’re probably not as serious as anyone at St. Olaf, but we still perform great music - in the past three years we’ve sung the Brahms Requiem, Martin Mass, and Bach B Minor Mass, in addition to a bunch of smaller works - and generally do it quite well, IMHO. If you have questions about choral opportunities at Williams; you should definitely email Brad (Bradley.C.Wells@williams.edu); he’s a super-nice guy and I’m sure he’d be happy to talk to you.

I don’t think we have any kind of official music ed. concentration available as part of the music major, but there are plenty of opportunities to learn theory. Also, if you want to get hands-on experience with education, I’m sure it’s possible to spend some time as a student teacher helping out in the local schools; Williams is really good at arranging things like that.