The Ball State program is based on a German model, and has been for a
number of years. It is very demanding and a lot of studentsdon't make
it through, flunking out or changing majors, but the ones who do are
prepared for a number of fields in music and sound (one recent grad was
the music editor on "The Lord of the Rings" movies, for example.
Unfortunately, there is a move afoot to dumb it down some. More news later.
Raymond Horton
John Howell wrote:
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
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