Exercises in the appropriate registration for instruments of different specifications. A supervised work experience with a cooperating institution or business, to provide the student with an opportunity to meet active professionals and to guide career planning. The student must develop a proposed project and carry out its requirements under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Through gentle movement sequences, musicians can learn to improve coordination, posture, and balance, which can lead to more artistic performance. The process combines an overview of gerontological issues and their relationship to the needs of older adults.
Classes meet on campus and at local adult-care facilities.
Admission by audition presented to faculty at first meeting of each semester. A junior and senior level course. This includes tape head alignment, level calibration, mixing console maintenance and repair, the development of troubleshooting and analytical skills, room equalization and acoustics, computer repair, maintenance, and memory management. The class takes advantage of the wide range of operatic activity in London, not only by attending as many live performances as possible, but also by meeting with opera performers and directors and by making backstage visits to London's two main opera houses. An introduction to the care, maintenance and repair of the trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.