Greetings Fellows CAUTs!
First, I wanted to praise Mike Reiter, RPT, for his excellent leadership in moderating the CAUT Forum at this year's National Convention. He was well organized in advance, and did a great job of keeping us on-task while ensuring that we heard form as many different voices as possible.
Also, I would like to clarify a point I made. It had to do with what happens at my school when I am not notified sufficiently in advance about a concert tuning. When I stated that they are not allowed to use a piano, Mike observed that such an approach was "hard." Now, I have no objection whatsoever to being known for being tough, but that is not the only reason for this approach. When a concert happens, there is the live audience at the venue, a live audience online, and then there is the eventual online audience in perpetuity. The school's reputation--as well as my own reputation--is on the line in all of those instances. Disclaimers such as, "They didn't let the piano tech. know in time that they needed a tuning" simply do not exist. Besides (and perhaps more importantly), it is educationally remiss to mislead students into thinking that such poor planning and bad communication will fly in the professional world. The more of their generative failure that they can experience while still in the relatively loving embrace of their school, the better they will fare in the world beyond the ivory towers.
Alan
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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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