Monday, January 02, 2006
Boston music college strikes new chord with bluegrass
From the Denver Post
At Berklee College of Music, a school founded as an incubator of jazz and steeped in the syntax of cool, the pluck of the banjo was once a sound disdained. The bluegrass instrument was considered the stuff of Appalachian Mountains, not urbane Boston.
But cool shifts. And next semester, bluegrass will become a sanctioned subject at Berklee.
The 3,800-student school will permit students to major in mandolin and banjo, signature instruments of bluegrass. Big names in bluegrass have come to play and teach. Banjo icon Earl Scruggs recently was awarded an honorary degree. ...
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Denver Post
At Berklee College of Music, a school founded as an incubator of jazz and steeped in the syntax of cool, the pluck of the banjo was once a sound disdained. The bluegrass instrument was considered the stuff of Appalachian Mountains, not urbane Boston.
But cool shifts. And next semester, bluegrass will become a sanctioned subject at Berklee.
The 3,800-student school will permit students to major in mandolin and banjo, signature instruments of bluegrass. Big names in bluegrass have come to play and teach. Banjo icon Earl Scruggs recently was awarded an honorary degree. ...
Read the article
Denver Post
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 10:26 AM 
