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< p > Excerpts from Forest’ s reply to my email:< / p >
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[...]I was/am just as miffed at what you said. The fact is, we do have
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a composition degree here. If we as a committee accept you as a composition
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major, then you can be one.[...]
I am not sure what Dr. Wohl is saying exactly, and I don't want to be
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unprofessional, so I will continue to help you figure this out. I put your
portfolio in his box over a month ago, and sent an email to him about this (as
well as Dr. Queen) with the intent on getting you approved to be a composition
major. We have already done this for one other student, and you are the
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perfect candidate for this as well. Aargh!
As far as whether or not you should graduate with the BA, that is a tough
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call. There is a lot to be said to just getting done, but it really comes
down to your portfolio. Do you feel your portfolio is strong enough to get
into a graduate program? I would say the title of your degree is secondary to
the strength of your portfolio, depending on where you want to go. Some of
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the more "old school" programs back east might not agree with this, but then
again some of those teachers are still writing serial "music." Last time I
checked it wasn't 1950 anymore. You could also make the case for staying in
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school to beef up your portfolio, as music school is the ideal laboratory for
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a composer--where else do you have so many musicians at your fingertips
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willing to play new music? Besides, you should still be experimenting to a
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fairly large degree right now, until you better develop your personal "voice."
This is the place to do that.
I will investigate further and have an answer for you. This is aggrevating
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though. In the meantime decide if you really want to try and get the comp
degree and if you do, we can make it happen.
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< p > What do you all think? I’ m now quite torn.. I’ d really < em > like< / em > to stick around for a bit longer and, as Forest said, have the resource of the music department to play with, as well as have that extra assurance of ‘ Composition’ on my diploma for some schools. He does have a point about Just Getting Done, though.. Hmm< / p >
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