Academic challenges. Post 3A

Hello! Today i’m going to talk about academic challenges for this 2020. I study musical interpretation here in the faculty…this university follows a traditional way of teaching which is influenced by the occidental music mostly, you have to study pieces from European composers of the XVIII and XIX century the majority of the time, and learn about occidental music history. I think that it has to change, we have to learn more about latinoamerican music, and contemporary ways of playing…because the current ways of composing music are related with new techniques. Also, the career has a “ghost year” (5^th year), you only have 3 subjects: Principal instrument, chamber music and “professional practice” wich doesn’t exists (you only have to do a portfolio) and you have to pay like a normal year, they say that you are preparing your final concert but its not justified with the money. You also have subjects that don’t work so well, where the teachers don’t do their work (that is a problem related with being a public employee, so the summarys are hardly done because they spend a lot of money).

This faculty is the poorest of the entire university. We study music and we don’t have good and pitched pianos (which are really really important in a formation of a musician) or an accompanist neither, in other conservatories you have the possibility to have rehearsals with your accompanist once a week, to have a better result of the music that you are studying. But that problem is the smaller one in comparison with other serious problems: the faculty doesn’t pay the employee’s salaries in MONTHS, we have teachers with denounces of sexual abuse, once, the ceiling of the Elefante hall fell down, and more and more, and…the English computers are the most technological thing in this building!.  If I talk about the deficiencies of this faculty I think I’ll never finish! 

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(our harpsichord)