Need a "safety" choice -- accomplished with the oboe

shennie
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:36:33 +0000

Desanto - you might want to take a look at St. Olaf in MN. They are an LAC of about 3000 and have 2 full orchestras. They offer merit awards for music regardless of your major. All students in the orchestra are required to be enrolled in lessons as well, so they have teacher support for all the instruments. They are well known for their choral program, but my husband and son were quite impressed with their music program overall. They brought home a recording of the top orchestra which was excellent.