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On Friday, March 26th at 4:30PM in the Organ Recital Hall at the UCA, I had my senior recital. The recital is a for-credit class that is technically geared towards performance majors, but they’re required of composition, education, and bachelor of the arts majors as well. Usually, grading is pretty straight-forward. Your applied teacher sits in the audience and watches you along with everything else, grading your performance of music that you have learned under their tutelage over the last however many semesters. Grades are as you would expect them – technicality, stage presence, song interpretation, working with the accompanist, and so on.
Composition is a little different, however. With composition, your work on the pieces has already been graded by the applied professor, for the most part, you aren’t even performing the pieces. The point of the recital shifts away from proving you can sing or play to proving you can pull together music and get it performed somehow. Your job changes from learning music and reciting it on stage to writing music, finding performers, organizing rehearsals, then organizing the recital and possibly conducting or performing the pieces, though the focus on that latter part is minimal.
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