<p>mr.whymper, no, no, I wasn’t referring to you in any way,please don’t think that! I just inserted my comment as a side bar to all of this.I didn’t think that was what you intended when you originated the thread. I’ll leave it up to one of the “dads” as to whether or not I should remove it and put it in it’s own thread.
Are you still an undergraduate? If so, and you attend a school which also offers a good music program, could you fit the extra music coursework into your schedule? Would it be possible to pursue a “double-major”, even if it requires another year, as that might preserve your funding? There are universities which have conservatories associated with them ( Case Western/CIM and Rice/Sheperd come to mind), where you could do that, and Case also has it’s own music department which offers it’s own music degree, which does not have as rigorous entrance requirement as does CIM.</p>