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- Includes perspectives from both inside the academy and the
professional music world, providing insights into how higher
education can best prepare students for music performance careers -
Draws connections between a range of changes needed in music higher
education, from incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion to
entrepreneurship and digital technologies
Amid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music
listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music
faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical
music performance training for current and future students. But how
can faculty and administrators, under urgent pressure to act, be
certain that their changes are effective, strategic, and beneficial
for students and institutions? In this provocative yet measured
book, Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin address these questions
with perspectives rooted in extensive experience as musicians,
educators, and arts leaders. Building on a multidimensional
analysis of core issues and drawing upon interviews with leaders
from across the performing arts and higher education music fields,
Stepniak and Sirotin scrutinize arguments for and against radical
change, illuminating areas of unavoidable challenge as well as
areas of possibility and hope. An essential read for education
leaders contemplating how classical music can continue to thrive
within American higher education.
Amid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music
listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music
faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical
music performance training for current and future students. But how
can faculty and administrators, under urgent pressure to act, be
certain that their changes are effective, strategic, and beneficial
for students and institutions? In this provocative yet measured
book, Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin address these questions
with perspectives rooted in extensive experience as musicians,
educators, and arts leaders. Building on a multidimensional
analysis of core issues and drawing upon interviews with leaders
from across the performing arts and higher education music fields,
Stepniak and Sirotin scrutinize arguments for and against radical
change, illuminating areas of unavoidable challenge as well as
areas of possibility and hope. An essential read for education
leaders contemplating how classical music can continue to thrive
within American higher education.
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