<p>The Williams music department is superb, the performance opportunities vast, and their record in getting folks into good graduate programs, especially in composition, unparalleled (if that’s where you’re headed). If you have a special interest in opera, or in early music, or in musical theatre, you’d be better off at Yale (and, perhaps, in ethnomusicology, though there are other places - such as Wesleyan - that are better than both of them. for that). On the whole, Yale’s undergraduate programs in music can’t compete (the Five Colleges definitely can, but that’s a whole different story.).</p>