<p>Yes, thanks a lot for your comments fishyfriend. This is pretty alarming to me. I am still interested in attending Yale for music however. I'll probably see you at Yale next year! Do you happen to know how many undergrads are actually taking lessons for credit right now? How many are in Claude Frank or Boris Berman's studios? I mean, is it actually impossible then, to get in without sufficient connections?<br>
Just wondering, what repertoire are you working on now? :)</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm very sorry for not responding to your questions sooner. Before going further, I want to clarify my opinion about the Yale music program, and Yale in general. I meant to address only the undergraduate lessons situation, which is probably the biggest problem I've faced at this school. On the whole, my experience has been wonderful. I have been delighted by the professors, classes, extracurriculars, and especially my fellow students here, and I'm certain that I'm happier here than I would be at any conservatory--probably even any other college. Yale has forced me to confront a larger intellectual, social, political, and cultural world than I ever knew existed, even as music has become a much larger part of my life than it was in high school. </p>
<p>WindCloudUltra, your friends are right about the Yale music community; it's amazing. Timo and others are putting together an all-night concert of contemporary/student music for the last day of classes. This has become an annual tradition at Yale, and is one of a huge number of contemporary music events that are held here every year. This week, the composer Penderecki will be speaking to my composition seminar and later conducting various Yale ensembles in his "Credo." </p>
<p>The concert scene is the best anyone could ask for. You can go to a concert every night (or more frequently!) if you have the time; also, my residential college provides heavily subsidized tickets and transportation to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC each semester. Other colleges have similar arrangements for the Met or for Broadway shows.</p>
<p>I'm constantly amazed by the level of student involvement in extracurricular music activities--directing, playing in orchestras or theater pits, chamber music, etc. Often, the music being performed has been written or arranged by other students. A giant money pot known as the Sudler Fund provides the resources for just about any student production (musical, dramatic, or otherwise) you want to do.</p>
<p>Overall, if the undergrad lesson system is lacking, Yale's other advantages (musical and otherwise) are worthy of consideration even by very serious instrumentalists.</p>
<p>The rest of this is for amypianist...</p>
<p>I believe Claude Frank and Boris Berman are very hard to get. Once again, if you are interested in studying with them, you really need to contact them personally or even arrange to play for them, ideally well before the start of the schoolyear. This semester I've worked on the Bach English Suite No. 2 and the Haydn Sonata in E-flat, Hob. XVI/52.</p>
<p>-fishyfriend</p>
<p>is there a lot of competition for music at yale? also how is the flute teacher(s)?</p>
<p>I realize that I'm digging out old post... Having been moving around in CC, never realize that there is a music major forum! </p>
<p>All those double major stuff would have helped me a lot had I seen it, but now I'm been through all the processes. </p>
<p>So I wonder, for any parent/student for any kind of dual program, how did everything go? Got into anywhere?</p>
<p>Daughter is double majoring in bass and math at Oberlin and loves it there.</p>