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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry)
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Subject: Re: Music majors and recordings
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 10:13:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 10:13:41 1985
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<i groove on records, but i keep hitting potholes on cds>

I don't know about Pennsylvania (or when in PA this occurred)
but in California in the early 60s when I was thinking of
doing music history and composition at USC (a good grad school
for music), they had no qualms about using records at all.
There was a sizable list of works that all entering students
were expected to know - there they were, piled up next to
record players, and piled high - rather daunting.

One obvious reason, though, to emphasis live performance rather
than listing to the records, is that of observing and learning
about technique, either of performing or conducting.  You get
the results of all that in the recording, but you dont get to
see it happen, what the performer does and how s/he does it.
Particularly important if you are to become a performer; less
so if all you need to know is music.

listen and watch well - Dewayne