The Making of a Music Academy

Jerome Stanley

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780761866671
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Note to the Reader
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Beginnings
• Laying the Foundations
• Leadership and Music Organizations
• A Decade of Growth
• Further Expansion of the Department
• Oxford String Quartet
• A Half-Century of Achievement
• Merging of Two Faculties
• A New Physical Facility
• A Dynamic Period
• The New Century
• Opera and Musicals at Miami
• Music Faculty in Luxembourg and Echternach Festival Orchestra
• Dreams Come True
• University Artists Series and Department Residencies
• The Larger Community
• Conclusion and Future
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Appendix F
• Appendix G
• Appendix H
• Appendix I
• About the Author