<p>Thanks Ohio_mom for the supportive message. I am sure that the issues could be addressed as you wisely suggested.</p>
<p>She's a kick, in her own quiet, sometimes inscrutable way.</p>
<p>Jeunger: Sorry to hijack your post. </p>
<p>Mini:
Ask your D to google Harvard Early Music Society. It has all the details. S's friend also produced La Serva Padrona.</p>
<p>Thanks. Done! I wouldn't be surprised to have her go, if she can find a ride.</p>
<p>tp those in thread speaking of music --- my daughter is a classical vocalist who just applied ed to Brown I have my reservaions about their music department and performance opportunities ----what do youknow about it?</p>
<p>My d. is a composer, and the Brown faculty (while fine) is best known for electro-acoustic, computer music, and ethnomusicology, not what she was looking for, and the opportunities she found at Smith (and the Five Colleges - she is the research assistant to the Five-College Opera Consortium) were simply stronger. I have no idea what performance at Brown is like - I imagine there are opportunities to be had. But the 5-College thing gives my d. a faculty and resources about 4 times the size of that at Brown. As noted, last week, her early music group (which rehearses at Mount Holyoke), sang at Amherst. Her early music quartet has a graduate student harpsichordist from U.Mass, the viola de gamba is a Five-College prof (and her supervisor) from Mount Holyoke, and a flautist from Smith. Her composition class had a visiting composition consortium from Italy perform and talk to them - they had come over to work with graduate students at UMass. Her voice teacher (and first-year advisor) has sung Bach with Joshua Rifkin and opera with Peter Sellars. There is a community opera company in town. And if she catches him before he retires, she'll get to work with the recent Pulitzer Prize winning opera composer at Amherst. </p>
<p>The point is - it just fit her. It may or may not other students. Many colleges these days have terrific performance faculty - the schools continue to graduate all kinds of performers who can't find enough gigs to make a living, so they end up around college campuses! And Providence does have a burgeoning music scene, I'm told.</p>