Piano At Swarthmore?

interesteddad
Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:52:35 +0000

Swarthmore is a great, great school. But honestly (and we did this search last year), I can name 10 topnotch liberal arts colleges with better music programs.




I know absolutely nothing about music programs, but I would be inclined to agree. Swarthmore didn’t even have a music major until the 1950s or so…I believe that P.D.Q. Bach was Swat’s first music major. I’m sure their music programs are perfectly fine for your average talented college student, but probably not at Julliard soloist levels in terms of resources. Frankly, if I had an unusual talent/interest such as professional level music ability, I would be on the phone to the head of the music departments at all of these schools asking questions straight from the horse’s mouth. I would guess that most would give pretty straight answers about what they do and do not offer.

But, hey…Yo Yo Ma “went to” Harvard, which isn’t exactly a musical powerhouse, either. (I suspect that he made “other arrangements”, or to be more exact, Harvard made “other arrangements” to accomodate his career as they probably did when Natalie Portman was busy with Star Wars episdodes).