nDozens of music schools
are graduating thousands of performance majors yearly.
nOnly 22 full
time orchestras in the United States1. For example,
there are roughly 60 full-time
jobs for clarinetists in the entire country.
Jobs are next to non-existent.
nSchools are following
the purist traditional
European model – teach students that if they practice hard and play well enough, someone will
hand you a place to play.
nSchools and graduates
are relying on others to supply the venues and jobs. Who?
nArts and funding for the
arts are on the decline. State of New
Jersey just cut their arts budget
to zero. Organizations
are folding or in financial trouble.