"It would be great to have more performance activities, but the logistical problems would be horrendous," Yannatos says, noting that the department would have to triple its staff to make it possible.
Funding is also a problem, according to Levin, because the University raises money to support existing programs, rather than to develop new ones.
"Harvard might try to think in long terms about how to enhance performance opportunities," Levin says, but it would do so only "by thinking very carefully and clearly."
"There is no need for Harvard to assemble a hastily built mediocre program," he adds.
On the other hand, professors encourage students not to forget that many of their teachers are concerned with the needs of performers.
"I think its very important for performers to realize they find in me an empathetic figure, someone who listens carefully to their concerns," Levin says. "Students who wish to talk about performance should come to talk to someone who is a performer."