Wisdom of changing intended major from performance to composition?

SpiritManager
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:55:45 +0000

Marimbamom - on the WQXR Project 440 site that I started a thread about earlier one composer I was intrigued by, Paula Matthusen, is "based in Miami and New York. She writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and creates sound installations. She specializes in writing for diverse instrumentations, as in her work run-on sentence of the pavement for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics…
Matthusen is currently Director of Music Technology at Florida International University.

I would say - based on the above, that your son should check out that university. Florida State Univ, too. And Univ. of Miami, of course. I keep saying it - but there are lots of great things going on all over the place.