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After briefly exploring the notion of pursuing a joint degree in Music and Economics, Capello returned in his junior year to concentrate in the "Culture and Personality" Social Studies track. "It was the best choice of my undergraduate career," he now says...
...Capello became interested in the meanings that different cultures invest in music. Sociological, political and anthropological theories of how we define different cultural and ethnic traditions--and the study of ethnomusicology, in particular--interested him. Questions about why and how a piece of music was performed in different cultures (a difference he noticed first-hand in jazz was performances at LSU and Southern), and about the perceptions and forms of different musical traditions, drove him farther from a narrowly-defined study of music...
...next round of transfer applications, Capello gained admission to every school to which he applied (with the exception of Yale, where he was wait-listed--adding to the long list of Yale's recent mistakes). He applied to major in several academic disciplines: cognitive science, philosophy, English, and music. "The choice wasn't a hard one," Capello remembers. "Harvard was my first choice...
...Capello arrived at the College in September 1993 as a second-term sophomore and a Music concentrator. Three weeks after his arrival he was elected manager of the Jazz Band, joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and gained a reputation for being Harvard's best bassist and one of its nicest guys. But all this was not enough. "There was so much to do here, and I became frustrated with just a music degree," he recalls, "I had never experienced such a diversity of opinion and character...
...Capello's senior honors thesis, "Defining Jazz as America's Classical Music: The Implications for a New American Identity," was based on his work last summer with the Jazz at Lincoln Center program. The thesis posited that Lincoln Center's adoption of jazz as a full constituent in its program represented the first legitimation of a uniquely American musical achievement as classical, high art. Capello believes that jazz, in borrowing from many different musical traditions, reflects a new source for a multicultural American identity...