<p>Yale has a very well respected undergrad and grad music program from what I understand. My only beef with the Yale Grad program is they seem to turn out composers who only produce Phillip Glass style music (several members of the program have done comission pieces for the New York Youth Symphony), either that is all they teach or someone at NYYS actually likes that stuff <em>lol</em>.</p>
<p>Lencias, I love Michael Giacchino, his music is something else! His score for the new Star Trek is a masterwork (my son says that score is better then anything John Williams has done, which isn’t a slight against John Williams, it is this score is a killer)…</p>