trip to WVU

[Jaume Fabregas]

Albert,
Thanks for your commentaries about the DMA program. For me all this is quite
new because we do not have something like the DMA in Spain and I just
decided to stick in the US for a little longer after the MM. I really think
music education is incredible in the States. I started my apprenticeship as
a piano tuner in January 1998 at SMU (Southern Methodist University) in
Dallas with Mr. David Porritt (RPT, hope everybody knows this one) as I
worked on my MM (Master of Music) and I am glad I will be able to continue
working on tuning and get paid for it at WVU.
Thanks!

Jaume Fàbregas i Marcet
Apartat 321
E-08190 Sant Cugat del Vallès
Barcelona. Spain
Phone: 34 93 675 4726
jumet68@teleline.es
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/6726/

----- Original Message -----
From: Albert Walter Thomas <athomas642@mindspring.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: trip to WVU


> Hello list:
>     To further explain Jaume's educational combination, the Doctor of
> Musical Arts program is the performing-artist's version of the PhD.
program.
> It is geared to the actual concert-artist-practical high-level experience,
> rather to the advancement of a more-theoretical knowledge, although it
> certainly includes a tremendous amount of that advancement as well.  At
the
> same time, he is pursuing a sort of advancing-apprenticeship in
> tuner-technician skills.  My hat's off to him!
>
> Albert Thomas
> Pianist and tuner-technician
> Auburn University