Music Major at Brown or Wesleyan

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<p>Hi
I ahve lots of information about music majors from watching the posts the last 2 years.<br>
I am not interested in knowing about anyone's experience with the music dept at Wesleyan U in Conn or Brown University. Sounds like they don't require an audition and at Wesleyan you don't declare music until end of sophomore year. Any insights into these programs would be apprciated.</p>

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<p>Do you meant you are “now interested” rather than “not interested”? I do that kind of typo all the time.</p>

<p>Let us know what your musical interests are, and it will be easier to answer.</p>

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<p>Sorry-I am interested in the two programs. Violin major. I realize that these are not the high power conservatory programs but I was wondering how the music departments ran at these two schools.
thanks</p>

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<p>Wesleyan in CT or Illinois Wesleyan U?</p>

<p>Both titled threads (note the dates, they are old):</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145788-music-major-wesleyan.html?highlight=wesleyan[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145788-music-major-wesleyan.html?highlight=wesleyan&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145789-ilinois-wesleyan-u-music.html?highlight=wesleyan[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145789-ilinois-wesleyan-u-music.html?highlight=wesleyan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you do a search on Wesleyan, (search entire post, display as threads), you’ll find 93 posts that have a Wesleyan reference. For a serious performance major on a highly competitive instrument, will either Brown or Wesleyan work? It boils down to the instructor, and I haven’t looked at faculty at either. Another concern could well be depth and quality of peers. Now if her focus is academics they are excellent programs. I would say it boils down to her focus and what she wants out of the (music) program. </p>

<p>The Brown titled threads: (Same title, 2 distinct threads. Again note the dates, one is old and one is beginning to gray.)
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/431696-music-brown.html?highlight=Brown[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/431696-music-brown.html?highlight=Brown&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145838-music-brown.html?highlight=Brown[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/145838-music-brown.html?highlight=Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>There is very little interest within the contributors to the music major forum regarding Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn. Plenty of music interest in Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. But that does not tell you much unless you know the potential, drawbacks and caveats of the HYCP music programs. Again, I would consider the same caveats as Wesleyan, teacher selection, peer quality and her focus.</p>

<p>The poster bratsche is a Brown alum, headed to an MM in viola performance. Her undergrad degree is seven or eight years old, but it might be worth a PM.</p>

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<p>Actually, Violadad, Cornell has one of the top composition programs in the country right now with Steven Stucky teaching there. Steven Mackey at Princeton. But my son felt both programs were better suited to graduate work. But, for performance pursuits - absolutely right - not where most of us are focusing our attention.</p>

<p>Wesleyan is terrific for World Music and avant-garde jazz.</p>

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<p>We, too, are looking at Wesleyan. We met with the orchestra director when we visited – Angel Gil-Odonez. He seems fabulous, both in terms of music and his interaction with and dedication to his students. He was candid about the quality of musicians. There are always some great ones, but Wesleyan is a small school, so the pool is small. Varies from year to year. The repetoire looked great, however. The performance hall is beautiful.</p>

<p>The western music curriculum didn’t look as vast as, say, Williams’, but the world music plus total package is very impressive. Lots of music courses and ensembles.</p>

<p>What impressed us the most is that soooooooooo many Wes students are into music. Even if everyone isn’t into classical, people seem to “get” what musicians are about. There appears to be alot of respect and support among the students.</p>

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<p>I knew this was here somewhere. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064685199-post17.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064685199-post17.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Just took me awhile to find it.</p>

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