Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musicians are simply dissatisfied with what they find here. They arrive to discover insufficient practice facilities and uniformly express frustration with a Music Department which they say discourages performance. Pianists, in particular, face a difficult situation: Few opportunities exist for organized music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...
...January of her freshman year rolled around she decided to move off campus. "I couldn't stand the food. I wanted to live with my boyfriend, and most of all I was going crazy not having anywhere to practice. I used to spend hours wandering around searching for a piano...
...this is that it never happens," says senior adviser Will Marquess, and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, emphatically agrees. But after petitions, letters, and parental intervention, Moses and company gave in and made her a rare exception. Krash moved out of Matthews, turned vegetarian, and bought her own piano...
...year here my confidence in my playing dropped dramatically because I wasn't practicing and performing enough. At home I'd been practicing four to five hours a day, performing, and teaching," she says, adding. "I don't think I could have made it to junior year without a piano...
...Krash believes that the problems of piano playing at Harvard go far beyond a lack of facilities. "Of course there should be more pianos, of course the music building should be open past ten o'clock." But the real problem, she says, is attitude. "The Music Department could really be an advocate of performance, but instead professors say to me. 'Oh, you probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none...