universities for music?

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<p>Easydoesitmom, it appears that you have PM turned off. If you PM me with an email address I have some very specific information that I would as soon not share in a public forum. To answer your question in a general way, I think the absolute best studios for double bass are those of Robinson and Meyer at Curtis, Ellison at Rice and Barker at BU.</p>

<p>The following is a necessarily incomplete list of schools that I think are also very good. Note that this list reflects a bias toward the Rabbath method and away from the Simandl. A Simandl devotee's list would be very different:</p>

<p>BU (everyone else)
CIM
CMU
Eastman
Indiana (great faculty but program and school was too large for my daughter)
NEC
Northwestern
Oberlin
U Cincinnati CCM
U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
U Michigan
U North Texas
USC
Vanderbilt (if Edgar Meyer makes most of his lessons - check on this)</p>

<p>I'm sure there are others that should be on the list but they were crossed off my daughters list for other reasons before I researched them. I am afraid I can't be of much help for electric bass teachers.</p>

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<p>Could any of you tell me some places for voice besides St, Olaf</p>

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<p>Nick,</p>

<p>what kind of voice - classical, opera, choral, jazz?</p>

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<p>classical and choral.</p>

<p>Bassdad:</p>

<pre><code> I know you had sent something to my other post earlier, but I decided to expand my college search and include public schools and conservatories that aren't connected with another college Like Depauw's school of music is included with the whole university.
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<p>Whoops,</p>

<p>I forgot that I had had a post about public schools already; sorry!</p>

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<p>Here are some of my favorites for undergrad classical voice/choir. There are probably also some good ones on the west coast, but I am not familiar with those.</p>

<p>Indiana U
Oberlin
Rice U
St. Olaf
U Michigan
Westminster Choir College (Rider U)</p>

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<p>Couple of other voice options</p>

<p>Here's an LAC --great program
<a href="http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/voice/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/voice/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here's a large university--great program
<a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/programs/vocal/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/programs/vocal/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>BassDad, can you give me an idea of how the DB program is at Northwestern/how competitive it is? I'm looking to try out for their summer institute. I've been playing for a few years (finished Dragonetti, working on some Bach suites)--I'm afraid I'm not world class yet, though. I'm aware that the bass players have more opportunities than, say, violin or flute players, but how much leeway do we really get?</p>

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<p>zoidberg,</p>

<p>Daughter did not seriously look at Northwestern, so there is not much I can tell you about them beyond the information that is publically available on their web site. I would suggest calling or emailing Zhang DaXun, their bass teacher, and asking him about the level of playing required to get into both the summer institute and the freshman class. His contact information is listed at <a href="http://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty_profiles/fp_performance.html#strings%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty_profiles/fp_performance.html#strings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you get into the summer program there, you will probably get to meet several of the students you would be competing against for a spot in their freshman class. Good luck and don't hesitate to ask if you have other questions.</p>

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<p>LSU is a very strong choral and voice school, strong opera tradition, good scholarship opportunities, and the winters are very short.</p>

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<p>NYU has some pretty good teachers. I believe Marion Feldman still teaches there (she also teaches at Manhattan School of Music.) I had her for chamber music and she is absolutely excellent. The problem with NYU is that the orchestra isn't too good.</p>

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<p>unt for performance and jazz. it seems though that some of the music teachers ive had from there are idiots though</p>

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<p>johnw: My D had the same assessment of music at NYU. NYU has many excellent teachers, but the students and performance groups were lagging.</p>

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<p>edad: Depends what performance groups. The classical chamber groups and small and large jazz ensembles are excellent. The teachers are top notch; many also teach at the Manhattan School of Music, and Juilliard. It's the large ensembles like the NYU orchestra, and the concert band which are poor (I believe that they cancelled the concert band.)</p>

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<p>Central Michigan University School of Music has an excellent reputation - If you're familiar with concert band music - David Gillingham is a professor of composition there. Many of the faculty were trained at Northwestern. <a href="http://www.mus.cmich.edu/about.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mus.cmich.edu/about.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I would like to major in Music Production and Engeenering at Berklee College of Music.</p>

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<p>What other colleges for music production besides berklee?</p>

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<p>NYU has music production (record producing) in Tisch and has music technology (recording and engineering) in Steinhardt.</p>

<p>Regarding some earlier comments about performance at NYU, I agree that that's what my D and I had heard -- overall level of undergraduate students not on par with conservatories and other top university music schools, but excellent teachers and a program that is determined to improve itself. Plus, it offers some unique performance opportunities (e.g. film scores, musical theater) that many schools don't offer. In the end, my D decided it was the place for her and is looking forward to it. We're both hoping that as the word spreads about its teachers and non-classical performance opportunities, and especially with the admission situation this year with the population boomlet, etc., the level of playing at NYU will indeed improve.</p>

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<p>What college do you think is the best for Music Production and Engeenering?
Berklee is the best, but I need more oprions.</p>

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<p>check out U of Miami</p>