From Pieter Viljoen Posted from 206.223.231.126 on April 15, 2007 at 3:17 AM (GMT)
I think letting your teacher decide who you can study with is a bit wrong. Go there, have lessons with the people and decide for yourself. Encore basically looks for a certain type of player, and maybe you didn't show them that side of yourself on that day. I wouldn't be too worried about it.
I would just really advise for you to actually go to CIM and meet with the teachers. I don't know any reason in the world why you'd get along with Updegraaf and not say, Bill Preucil, David Russell, or Paul Kantor. They're all great teachers with great personalities.
If you're that into school, consider Yale as well as the Harvard/NEC program. You have to be pretty unreal committment wise to do the latter, though. Also there is USC which is now one of the best places to study violin, but apparently it's a bit soft on the academics so it might not be for you. I think IU sounds like a great idea. As someone who recently applied to schools, all I can tell you is that meeting and playing for a teacher 1on1 can completely change your perception of them, so I'd recommend you do that. This is the next 4 years of YOUR life, not your teacher's.
From Pauline Lerner Posted from 70.108.85.178 on April 15, 2007 at 6:30 AM (GMT)
Many of us on this site are living proof that you can survive the junior year of high school with your sanity more or less intact. Hang in there!
From Kerah Williams Posted from 68.51.43.59 on April 17, 2007 at 1:32 AM (GMT)
Tasha--
Please don't go to that bug-and-snooty-kid-infested campground BREVARD again! Check out Sewanee Summer Music Festival (5 weeks on the campus of Sewanee: The University of the South) which has great teachers from all over, including SUNY-Fredonia and Stanford. I went last summer and it was a really great experience for me. The campus is gorgeous--think Harry Potter meets the Episcopal tradition of the past century--and financial aid is available.
You should also look at the Hot Springs Music Festival at www.hotmusic.org If you are accepted, all expenses are paid except meals, and those are easy especially considering the fact that almost all the restaurants in town have discounts for Festival Students.
All is not lost!
And I understand how you feel about drowning in school work. The only reason I am writing this is because my mother, of all people, reads the blogs and discussions here and told me that you didn't get in to Brevard. I haven't had the time to get on the site for at least two months. The smoke is starting to clear and school is starting to taper off, but not nearly as fast as it should. : )
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Posted from 206.223.231.126 on April 15, 2007 at 3:17 AM (GMT)
I would just really advise for you to actually go to CIM and meet with the teachers. I don't know any reason in the world why you'd get along with Updegraaf and not say, Bill Preucil, David Russell, or Paul Kantor. They're all great teachers with great personalities.
If you're that into school, consider Yale as well as the Harvard/NEC program. You have to be pretty unreal committment wise to do the latter, though. Also there is USC which is now one of the best places to study violin, but apparently it's a bit soft on the academics so it might not be for you. I think IU sounds like a great idea. As someone who recently applied to schools, all I can tell you is that meeting and playing for a teacher 1on1 can completely change your perception of them, so I'd recommend you do that. This is the next 4 years of YOUR life, not your teacher's.
Posted from 70.108.85.178 on April 15, 2007 at 6:30 AM (GMT)
Posted from 68.51.43.59 on April 17, 2007 at 1:32 AM (GMT)
Please don't go to that bug-and-snooty-kid-infested campground BREVARD again! Check out Sewanee Summer Music Festival (5 weeks on the campus of Sewanee: The University of the South) which has great teachers from all over, including SUNY-Fredonia and Stanford. I went last summer and it was a really great experience for me. The campus is gorgeous--think Harry Potter meets the Episcopal tradition of the past century--and financial aid is available.
You should also look at the Hot Springs Music Festival at www.hotmusic.org
If you are accepted, all expenses are paid except meals, and those are easy especially considering the fact that almost all the restaurants in town have discounts for Festival Students.
All is not lost!
And I understand how you feel about drowning in school work. The only reason I am writing this is because my mother, of all people, reads the blogs and discussions here and told me that you didn't get in to Brevard. I haven't had the time to get on the site for at least two months. The smoke is starting to clear and school is starting to taper off, but not nearly as fast as it should. : )
Hang in there.