Freeman, Robert, 1935-
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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- The crisis of classical music in America focuses on solutions for the oversupply of classically trained musicians in America, a problem that grows ever more chronic as opportunities for classical musicians to gain full-time employment diminish. An acute observer of the professional music scene, Robert Freeman describes how this problem has no chance of abating unless music schools equip students with the communication and analytical skills they need to succeed in the rapidly changing landscape for America’s music professionals. The book maps a broad range of reforms required in the field of advanced music education and the organizations responsible for that education. Featuring a foreword by Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Crisis of Classical Music in America speaks to parents, prospective and current music students, music teachers and professors, department deans, university presidents and provosts, and even foundations and public organizations that fund such music programs. This book reaches out to all of these stakeholders and argues for meaningful change though wide-spread collaboration — Provided by publisher.
- Includes index.
- The winds of change — Where did musical education come from? — My education — Advice for parents : should your child play the cello? — Advice for college music students : what’s your goal — Really? — Advice for music professors : should all your students aim for Carnegie Hall? Should they all teach at Harvard? — Advice for music deans : building education programs appropriate for the new century — Advice for provosts and presidents : who should lead your music school and how should that person lead? — Advice for foundation directors and civic leaders : what do we do to balance the supply of and demand for professionally trained musicians? — Epilogue.
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