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After a year as a Music and English concentrator, Fletcher says he realized at the end of his sophomore year that it was time to change. "There wasn't as much opportunity to do the kinds of things I was most interested in," he says...
Making the switch in concentrations wasn't easy. "The special concentration people want to make sure your program is not too specific, nor too general," Fletcher says. He also needed written statements from faculty certifying that he could not satisfactorily "pursue his goals" in the Music and English departments...
...Music and Dramatic Arts concentrator, Fletcher has been able to study what he wants to. "I have always been interested in music," Fletcher says. The director and composer started playing the piano at age five, and discovered the theater at age six. "I've been interested in the combination of the two. When I got to Harvard, I was interested in a combination but I didn't think it was possible," Fletcher says...
...switch was a good idea: and according to Alfred, Fletcher is well suited to the world of the stage. "He does have a working sense of the shape of a dramatic action. He showed he could grow with the genre, which is what you hope for with someone just beginning to write for theater," says the professor...
...that Fletcher has created an original work, he says that he believes "there is a lot of anticipation for this project because it hasn't been done before; in my time it hasn't been done as a thesis...