At 12:46 PM -0400 7/26/06, Raymond Horton wrote:
Sorry, John, I've been in and out of town and away from computers part of the time and did not see your reply when you first posted it in late June. At what school are you?
Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, which despite the ambiguous name is Virginia's land grant university. (The official name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, but that's too long for the athletic folks to deal with!)
I think our program, and your son's, are the new approach that tries to put technically-trained musicians behind mixing boards. A friend of our--a fabulous keyboard player--was asked to go to Germany to record the Bach multi-harpsichord concertos, and he came back saying that the German recording engineers could all read score and instead of saying something like "something didn't sound right just before the repeat" they'd say "there was an Ab instead of an A natural on the 3rd beat of measure 49"!
Now, if only they also teach them about the physiology of hearing and the best way to protect their ears from damage, it'll be a BIG improvement!
John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
