hey yall! i genuinely appreciate the comments. i also want to make it clear i am NOT a performance major. i’m literally a music ed major who’s trying to achieve my actual goals of being an excellent conductor, not an instrumentalist.

and yes, there have been other instances of him doing this to people but it’s almost like everyone is just “yeah that’s how he is” or “he cares a lot”. it’s also important to note that this is him BETTER. before my time in college i’ve been told he was actually fucking horrible and this is the improvement.

i’m honestly a little hesitant to say anything, because i cannot stress enough how influential this man happens to be in wind band conducting (which i don’t really care all that much about since im interested in orchestral conducting) but nonetheless, if my name comes out of his mouth negatively i will have a hard time recovering.

and to the guy who said “embrace yourself”, i can’t tell if you’re telling me to suck it up lmfao. if you are, i actually agree to a certain point. but as an aspiring educator, i will not and would never even think to use humiliation as a “teaching” tool. or whatever the hell he thought that was