Back to School for 2016!!!
College auditions are just around the corner and all is a bit shaky with the seniors. Today’s topic was the concept of “cut programs” vs. “ensemble programs”. When I was the age of these students and setting off for a BFA program – all of the leading schools were known as “cut schools.” In essence they would take on roughly 50 students as freshman and then cut the class to 30 as sophomores and then cut to 15 as juniors and ideally graduate around 10 students. Some of the advantages to the cut system are: Read more