Going to school to study music is expensive

From Reuters:

Myung made that career switch in October. With two graduate degrees from Boston's New England Conservatory, the 25-year-old gifted violinist turned down a rare opening with the New World Symphony and an audition for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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With the cost of tuition rising every year and conservatory students spending as much as six years in school, many like Myung are swamped in debt as they enter a field in which jobs are scarce and salaries often low.

"Even if you do music really well, there's no guarantee that you'll get a job," said Myung.

Click here for the rest. It's a much longer post, without a snarky headline, that would need to discuss the passing of live music, and live musicians, as a part of everyday human existence. And as someone who would of course much prefer live music, or playing music, or writing music, to sitting around with a stereo, while it truly saddens me, I'm still also excited about where interactive digital music can go. But just don't leave it in the hands of these guys, huh? Thanks, BoingBoing, as usual, for getting word out to the world.

Posted by juechi at November 29, 2005 10:20 AM