Talk:Berklee College of Music

message: I propose moving the list of prominent alumni to its own page. This list could get out of hand pretty quickly. I think it's already long enough to warrant its own article. Please vote either support or oppose and state your reasons. I'll give this two days. --malber 00:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Melissa Etheridge is listed as an alumni, then later on is designated as an honorary degree receipient.  Not the same.  Perhaps someone who knows more about that than me could do an edit? Highonhendrix (talk) 08:06, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: She did both, I just added the source the short list of Prominent Alumni from the Berklee website. --PM - PhilyG talk 02:45, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move?

message: Someone, please, add an introduction... --84.249.252.211 21:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No introduction 

message: There have been several insertions by anonymous editors that Berklee now requires an entrance audition. The most I've been able to find is that prospective students are required to demonstrate basic music skills such as the ability to read music. This was not required when I attended, so this is an obvious change, but I haven't been able to find any sources to cite that an audition is required. If someone can find a citation, please include it. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 12:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entrance audition 

message: --Zetsuie 13:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully it isn't too late for you to hear this, but the acceptance rate for Berklee's Audio Engineering program, MP&E, is about %45.  To get in you have to have accrued 24 Berklee credits, so that usually means that you will be applying in your second semester in hopes to begin your third semester.  MP&E is a great program and hopefully you are still interested.  That is the major I am doing.  Good luck man!--Phil McGowan (PhilyG) 21:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berklee Acceptance 

message: I think the main picture should be of the 150 or 130 mass ave buildings, not the 1140 building. the 1140 building is a generic looking building with a lame little flag; the 150 building has the massive flags and the distinctive overhang, and the 130 building has unique architecture. Thoughts? 192.136.22.4 23:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; and although it seems that someone has already added a picture of the building's rear, I think the lede picture should probably be the front of 150 Mass Ave — if not the main entrance, then maybe the building's distinctive corner on Mass Ave and Boylston. And a photo of the Uchida entrance wouldn't hurt, either. Cribcage 18:17, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. The 1140 building is historically the original Berklee building. This is where the first classrooms and the first dorms were. It's currently the administrative headquarters. It's also, IMO, an architecturally better looking building than 150 Mass Ave or even the Uchida building. However, the article does need more free images. Next time I go to Boston I'll try to remember my digital camera :-) —Malber (talk • contribs) 19:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree about its architecture. However, as campuses expand and develop, I don't think it makes sense to necessarily select a lead picture based on whether a building used to be that university's headquarters. Also, your information is a bit out of date: Berklee's administrative offices (registrar, bursar, career development, dean's office, etc.) are located in the Uchida building, not 1140 Boylston. Cribcage 09:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As a Berklee student myself, I will let everyone know that 150 Mass Ave is the epicenter of the college and it is generally seen as the main building of the campus.  1140 technically isn't the first Berklee building as the Schillinger House of Music (what Berklee was called originally) was first housed in a different building no longer used by the college.  Albeit 1140 is the oldest building though.  Since I am here I will try to snap a picture of 150 Mass Ave and will put it up in place of the logo.--Phil McGowan (PhilyG) 21:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass Ave 

message: Ghosts&empties, the paragraph in this article about the Berklee Ice Cats does constitute a paragraph.  As I was attending the college at the time, I will tell you that it was a very exciting and important time for the college.  This is the first sports team that Berklee has had in it's over 60 year history.  Also, the fact that the team did relatively well for it's first season ever definitely is noteworthy.  I will be open to any opposition you have, just post a reply on this talk page.  Thank you.
--PM - PhilyG talk 14:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hockey Team Paragraph

message: The 09:01, 13 September 2008 118.136.5.49 version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation into Chinese Wikipedia 

message: Does anyone know how much it costs to attend the college?Patches9713 (talk) 00:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure but I haven't seen many other colleges list a price on their wikipedia page. Jwh335 (talk) 08:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it's considered non encyclopedic information. Jwh335 (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As I am a current student, I could inform the world of current Tuition costs, but I agree that it is not appropriate for this site.  To stay accurate, you would have to rely on current students continuously giving you the current tuition cost.  How many other colleges have their tuition listed on Wikipedia? --PM - PhilyG talk 01:40, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's been some recent edits regarding cost and students perspective. As also a Berklee alumnus, I think it's also important for other prospective students to know this too, but I also agree a bit that it should probably go to a different section in the page. I'm checking out other pages to see how they deal with availability of financial aids. Calvin Limuel 14:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost 

message: This article says the following:
"The original mission of Berklee was to prepare students... providing formal training in jazz, rock, and other contemporary music not available at other music schools."
Rock was not in the original curriculum. When Berklee began, rock was in its infancy, jazz was considered to be popular music (despite the new bebop scene), and other popular music of the day utilized jazz vocabulary and jazz musicians. When I attended Berklee (late 70s - early 80s) there were two or three classes and a few ensembles that related to rock. At that time, more and more of the new students coming in were interested in rock and it grew from there. One of the early classes I remember was "The Music of John Lennon" which began in 1980. gnar 12.72.192.228 (talk) 12:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock in the curriculum 

message: In the introduction, Berklee is described as an "independent music college". Wouldn't this be better described as being a "conservatory"? The Boston article lists it as such in the education section. If there are no objections, I'll go ahead and change it, I just didn't know if there was some reason that the use of the term was being avoided.
Glassbreaker5791 (talk) 01:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservatory? 

message: Is the name of the college pronounced the same as Berkeley, California? If not, could someone please add an IPA transcription? thanks! BigSteve (talk) 11:12, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the current name Berklee is named after Lee Eliot Berk, so technically it should be pronounced Berk+Lee, last syllable being , only a tad different from the last syllable of Berkeley , less open vowel. But I don't think anybody would notice that. I also try to pronounce Berklee without making the  cluster sound but separating them, but nobody really does that either. Calvin Limuel 15:37, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I was attending Berklee between '72 and '75.  In that period, my friend and his friend made the Real Book!  It took them 6 months to complete it, and the day after it came out, somebody copied it and was selling it for $5 less!  Amazing start of history, eh? Cathomatic (talk) 06:49, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Real Book 

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message: The article about the degree relies almost entirely on primary sources. Lacking a subject-specific notability guideline that I know of, the article must pass WP:GNG — which it does not. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:54, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly do you think should be merged? I don't think the details in that article are appropriate for this article as they're just way too detailed for this broad overview of the entire history. Maybe one or two sentences could be copied or created to summarize critical and historically important information. I think it may be more appropriate to simply delete the article about the major. ElKevbo (talk) 18:30, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @ElKevbo: I was thinking much the same thing when starting this discussion, but thought it would be likely that a deletion discussion would close with consensus to merge anyways. However, you are right in saying that the majority of the article's comment would likely be discarded during a merge, so I'm not opposed to an AfD; feel free to go ahead with that and close this discussion if you feel that would be better! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:45, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Any objections to trying a proposed deletion first? It seems like a clear-cut and non-controversial deletion. ElKevbo (talk) 19:09, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No objection whatsoever. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:10, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. ElKevbo (talk) 19:35, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for doing that, ElKevbo! I've rescued the little that I could from the article and removed the merge tags. I think any further discussion will only be about deletion, so I'll close this thread. For what it's worth:  —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:18, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Music Production and Engineering Major at Berklee]] into [[Berklee College of Music]]