There are really only two schools in Canada that fit your description, and
only one really closely...
Sometimes an institution becomes a 'thing-in-itself' existing not because
of a stated purpose, but to provide employment for administrators. So you
are lucky that there is still a stated purpose that has something, however
tenous, to do with music - though I'm sure that this is to raise the
profile of the institution, resulting in more defensible funding, resulting
in bureaucratic job security etc. etc. Therte may even be some poor
creature at the top of it all that believes he/she is serving the cause of
music somehow. Sad, really. john
...evidence to confirm that this method got
>> results, because the "finished products" were getting lots of work both
>> inside the school of music and outside of it.
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>I'm afraid I know of a big Canadian music faculty guilty of the same thing
>(I'm not going to name names....) ...because their main goal was to have
singers out in
>time to compete in major international competitions. That was it.
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>And having watched (and listened to) the products of this school for several
>years (afterall, they get all the jobs in the city), I find many of them
>leave with WORSE voices than they came in with. Yes, they learn a number of
>performance skills and they're full of confidence--and these take them a
>long way. But all these people were accepted in the first place because
>they sang so naturally well--the school is just a collection of many of the
>best voices in the country.
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>Needless to say, I've done most of my study privately, though I've taken
>many good theory courses at said school. I believe private is best--IF you
>can motivate yourself (and if you can't, what are you doing?)--but it really
>makes things tough for breaking into performance opportunities.
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>Alleson Aering
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John Blyth
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Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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