Author : Jerome Stanley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761866671
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Book Synopsis The Making of a Music Academy by : Jerome Stanley
Download or read book The Making of a Music Academy written by Jerome Stanley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a music-training program at one among many American institutions of higher learning. These institutions accepted the challenge to evolve and develop training programs for music as part of a liberal arts education. Covering a period of more than one hundred years, the book discusses aspects of politics and the arts in America during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It focuses upon faculty and administrative efforts to maintain a rich experience in the arts at a typical university in Midwestern America. It is a representative story that includes interviews with former faculty and administrators as well as with present faculty and alumni. It is a kind of arts-survival story presenting the argument that music is essential to the ideals of a complete education.