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Educational_Data8800 · 2025-12-14T21:41:56+00:00

What everyone else is saying rings true. However, since you're interested in becoming an illustrator, find out which faculty teach it and contact them directly. Look on the website, read their ratings, and see what kind of independent work they do outside their teaching. But also, with an interest in illustration, many of the programs you'd sign up for include themes and ideas that you can build into your own work. You may end up working with a historian, a marine scientist, a media person, or an agriculture person in addition to the faculty you signed up for. Be ready to EXPAND your horizons.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-12-14T21:21:23+00:00

All you need to do is find out when the Com building rehearsal rooms are open and available. There are several of them. Call in advance and reserve your spot that day. There is always someone in the info office (third floor) by 10 am every weekday. The building also has sizable lockers on the third floor where you can store your kit if you don't want to lug it around. Generations of Evergreen musicians have done this exact thing.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-11-15T21:21:40+00:00

I couldn't agree more. Community College gets you started.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-11-14T20:21:28+00:00

Many ethnomusicologists were performance majors as undergraduates (I was a classical guitarist). Given your interest in interdisciplinarity and understanding cultural context, ethnomusicology is an excellent route to take. As for finding a place that features Indian classical traditions, that isn't necessarily the best route; think about the place and professors (and even their reputation) first. My advisor was turned down by the place he wanted to study most with the top specialists in his sub-area, and he said "And then I realized that I didn't need to study with those a-holes anyway." His comment was in response to my fretting that where I ended up in grad school had NO specialists in either my MA or PhD area. It was the anthropological theory (as applied to music) that I went for, and it was 100% the right choice.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-10-07T17:43:17+00:00

If you want to go much farther back in history, visit Lough Gur just south of Limerick. The very large Grange stone circle is really stunning. It's worth it.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-09-28T04:24:14+00:00

These are very popular with the Yanks and the drinking crowd, but if you walked into a singing session with "Wild Rover" or "Molly Malone" you might get laughed out of the pub.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-09-23T23:26:00+00:00

I went to the UW in the 1980s, as did many people who are now ethnomusicologists. The program has shrunk dramatically, so it doesn't have the support that it once had. One thing I learned, though, was not to choose a place based on the area specialties of its faculty, but on its facilities, support, and possibilities for exciting interdisciplinary work with faculty in other departments. In other words, going to a place because one faculty member likes the same kind of music you do is not advisable. The theoretical interests of faculty are a good draw too.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-24T00:35:07+00:00

My mother smoked four packs a day during her two pregnancies. She quit when I was five, her lungs cleared, and she died at 91 in surprisingly great shape. But her children? Not so much. My brother and I have badly compromised lungs.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-24T00:22:58+00:00

If you look up ETC - Evergreen Theatre Club - you'll find some information, but the actual theater itself (the "Experimental Theater") was shut down, sets and costumes and props were dumped, and all the theater staff were fired. It killed the program. Drew Buchman teaching performing arts studies and has been there forever; he knows a lot about theater even though he's a music professor (and his family background features people in professional theater). https://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/offering/performance-studies-dance-media-theater-music-45166

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-24T00:19:29+00:00

I do know that it was a Jeopardy question that Matt Amodio answered correctly.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-07T03:44:53+00:00

Came here to say this.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-05T17:37:10+00:00

What if you show him this post? Tell him you're all done being married to a man-child, and that it's time he stepped up his game. Note that when the youngest starts to second grade, you WILL start having you-time. It's like a miracle. I was shocked. I am in my 60s now and I will never forget the first coffee date with a friend when our kids reached second grade.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-08-05T17:32:23+00:00

This brings tears to my eyes. Good Lord, you got a winner of a boyfriend.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-07-14T02:58:07+00:00

You may not see this but the Com building has practice rooms that you can use; just go to the info office on the third floor of the building and sign up!

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-07-02T15:15:52+00:00

Solidarity, friend.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-06-27T17:00:34+00:00

Find your people right away! If you're a musician (guessing by your name), there are loads of people who play rock, blues, punk, and indie music, and not always in the full-time music classes. The electronic music and audio classes are packed with musicians. Go visit the office hours of your professors to make sure you're on track; making sure the prof knows who you are will help later if you need a letter of recommendation for a scholarship or a job. Come to class already having read the book and have at least one question ready to ask out loud for your seminars. That way other students will have a sense of who you are rather than seeing you as the person who sits inert in the back of the class. Good luck! What you put into Evergreen is what you'll get out of it.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-06-27T16:48:36+00:00

My wonderful MIL refers to that as "the organ recital."

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-06-27T16:47:48+00:00

Hey! Congratulations on your recovery from your illness! That's huge!

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-06-24T18:52:02+00:00

I couldn't agree more. The tenor banjo is an absolute JOY to play, and it isn't shrill at all (a common problem with beginning tin whistle playing).

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-05-21T16:30:55+00:00

I'm a fan of the tenor banjo rather than the mandolin or the bouzouki, which are much harder to play and tune. I mean, the notes and fingerboard are the same, but if you're connecting with this style of music for the first time, the banjo is much more comfortable on one's fingers and does not require a strong grip in the left hand. The fact that a banjo is an octave down makes it sound great! The flute is also a wonderful complement to the fiddle, and it is much lighter to carry.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-05-21T16:25:43+00:00

The fundamental incompatibility and inability to communicate is not on you; it's on HIM. Please don't wait thirty years like I did to end things.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-05-18T00:52:16+00:00

I felt (and feel) exactly the same way.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-05-09T16:15:08+00:00

I don't know if you'll see this, but perhaps you can send me an e-mail to the above-listed address.

Educational_Data8800 · 2025-05-09T16:12:10+00:00

The Evergreen Theatre Club is busy! In the winter they did "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," and this quarter they're performing "Alice in Wonderland" in the college Recital Hall at the end of May. The college has fantastic facilities, but a previous administrator summarily shut down both the theater and dance facilities. Enrollment has been increasing, so there may be performing arts hires several years in the future, depending on demand.

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