<p>keep the bow moving no matter what, that's what my teacher tells me too. Damn it, today's the day I play preludio at about 1:45 pm. I'm so screwed.</p>
<p>Not too bad, I got a first in a provincial class. Now i just need get one more first to qualify for the nationals. I'm still screwed. :(</p>
<p>You can do it! (Just here to support you.)</p>
<p>Vocalise today at the music festival. Please pray for me somebody. There's only one person I consider my rival though.</p>
<p>Good luck! Break a string.</p>
<p>umm, didn't win anything at the last oen. Teacher says I played superbly, but the adjudicator is not exactly a good one, nor is she a good player. So I guess that means he thinks I should have gotten first? Do I sound like I'm making excuses? lol i am(sort of), but I'm actually just willing myself to believe my teacher, whom i have a lot of respect for. Comparing the adjudicator to him is like comparing a crow to a peacock. Meh, I have the bruch concerto tonight. Hope I do well. </p>
<p>What am i doing? Venting of course! CC is better for venting than parents, friends, anyone.</p>
<p>p.s. the thinking "slow" really helped my psych for the preludio. Very effective startegy you have there jono.</p>
<p>1st, but I'm so dissatisfied with the damned adjudicator.</p>
<p>This is really nice information about the instrumental side, but can someone speak to the combined program in vocal performance? I read that you can actually audition after the junior year for Julliard for the combined degree, but if you don't audition until then, does this mean you can't take lessons at Julliard until then? Has anyone done this program?</p>
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<li><p>Double-degree program: you apply to Columbia and audition to Juilliard in the spring of high school senior year, and if you are accepted for the double-degree program (note: you can be accepted at both schools but still not be accepted to the program), which you most likely won't be but give it a shot anyway, you take lessons at J-ard with a teacher there for your first three years at Columbia, during which time you have to finish all of your Columbia requirements. Then in what would be your senior year at Columbia, you move to Juilliard and do 2 years there, and I think the result is a masters degree from Juilliard and a bachelors degree from Columbia.</p></li>
<li><p>Lessons exchange program: this year it doesn't exist (I don't know how long it hasn't been existing), but four people I know including myself are going to take lessons at Juilliard anyway. Arrange it privately with a teacher at Juilliard to see if one will teach you. Maybe by next year this program will be more common than it is this year, because parents have been talking to Columbia and Juilliard to try and make lessons more available and cheaper. Columbia is also thinking about hiring more teachers for lessons from Juilliard, MSM, and Mannes, and Columbia is also thinking about bringing MSM and Mannes into the partnership. These teachers won't teach just anybody, though, and they have limited space anyway, but some of them would even like to become Columbia teachers as well.</p></li>
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<p>Interesting inside info, jono. I've wondered why Barnard has a relationship wiht Manhattan School of Music while Columbia does not. </p>
<p>Do you know whether any of these negotiations or hiring plans include jazz? Do you know how serious Columbia is about this? I notice they spent $1.7 million on bringing Peter Brook's production to campus. That could have bought a whole lot of adjunct instructors, and supplied a lot of opportunities for student performance instead, which is what makes me a little suspicious of priorities. But, I'd love to hear you have reason to believe this will happen soon.</p>
<p>Yeah I read an article that said the school just completed a 26 million dollar renovation to the president's house after he lived in several interim locations, but I hope 26 million is a typo. . . that can't be right.</p>
<p>My mom talked to Deborah Bradley and Walter Frisch there, and Deborah Bradley is the one hiring the new teachers as far as I can tell since last time I saw her she was heading off to interview a prospective music instructor. She told my mom about the hopes of hiring Juilliard, MSM, Mannes, NYC, and other instructors and the hopes of expanding to the other NYC conservatories. She also told my mom that she would work on making lessons with outside instructors more affordable.</p>
<p>Thanks. Deborah Bradley has done a good job. I just hope the university does get more generous with music performance.</p>
<p>$23 million :) But placing emphasis on historic preservation when you've got one of the world's most architecturally significant campuses in the world is okay in my book. That's far from a misplaced priority.</p>
<p>How bout vocal ensembels? I'm looking for a large choral group (not too into a capaella), and if there is one, how hard is it to get in. I know they have something liek a glee club but they don't seem too active from looking at their website.</p>