Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Unfortunately, like any other field it also shelters sexual predators of varying degrees who abuse their positions of power. I was surprised when not one of my Stanford professors would allow a closed door during private conferences with me.

In most music programs, because the curriculum is filled with courses in music, the student rarely has the opportunity even to become acquainted with the core of courses usually associated with a liberal arts education. In other words, unless the music performance graduate continues in music, he or she is for all practical purposes not college-educ

It is possible to receive both quality music training and a well-rounded academic education by enrolling at a conservatory that is part of a larger university, like those at Indiana University and Oberlin College.

Today, these same arts workers are in their forties and fifties. At this point in their careers, they may be earning annual wages of 25–40,000, no longer living in shared housing, intolerant of periodic layoffs, and almost certainly receiving no help from their parents. Moreover, the open job market has far fewer opportunities for their skills, and

A young person who dreamily “wants to go to Juilliard” or “be a concert pianist” should research the reality of these statements.

Seed money from the Ford Foundation provided what appeared to be limitless growth for performing arts groups, spawning new foundations to fund an ever-increasing number of projects. Ford’s unique invention, the challenge grant, saw great success in raising money by asking donors to match foundation giving.

Today, amateur musicians are conservatory-trained professionals who cannot find work. Typically, their lives are the reverse of those of the 1950s amateurs—highly trained in their hobby but uneducated in whatever becomes their money-making career. Instead of earning a college degree in a field that will support them adequately and playing music in

Do you love music, or are you just hooked by the attention your performances bring?