"The amount of time that such a major would take from the academic obligations from these various undergraduates is staggering," Levin says.
Not A Conservatory
conservatory, with surprising results.
"We're not a conservatory, so we will never offer the breadth of Julliard
or the New England Conservatory," says Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. "But even if you are tone deaf, Harvard allows you to take a course by a wonderful, distinguished professor."
Christopher M. Trapani, a composer who transferred from the New England Conservatory (NEC), says that the instruction that he has received here is broader and more comprehensive that what he got at NEC.
"The classes here are just so different, even for music concentrators. The objective at NEC is to give as little work as possible so you can practice six hours a day....They expect you to know how to play the violin and if you don't know when Palestrina died its not a big deal."
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