Posted by At this point... on September 04, 2003 at 11:51:24:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Becoming a professional posted by Rick Denney on September 04, 2003 at 11:21:15:
...in the thread, the arguement is not about the best way to get a professional job as a tubist (that this is the exact intent of the original poster is still an assumption on Joe's...uh...rs'a part...making a living playing the tuba and having a full time symphony or military gig are not necessarily the same thing), but ra's posting pictures of people who have jobs and not degrees in music. Herseth has a degree in something from Luther College in Iowa. He later attended New England Conservatory. Crisafulli attended Northwestern University, which, I doubt in the 20's and 30's, had any resemblance to a "trade school" in music. Out of the bunch, Jacobs was the only one who was a product solely of a "trade school". Joe Robinson got undergraduate degrees in English and economics at Davidson College, was a Fulbright Scholar, and earned a masters degree in public administration from Princeton. It seems that he didn't let non-musical pursuits get in the way of his focus on the gig. I maintain that a person is better served, especially in today's DISMAL job market in music performance, by a well-rounded education, than by a "trade school" alone.