If ever I were ever appointed as faculty to a music conservatory (although I don't expect to be, nor am I looking to be), I would wish the press release state my bio as reading something like this:
RW is a highly experienced musician, the specifics of which are unimportant. He will teach music and musicianship and how to apply such musicianship to life going forward after college, whether or not it becomes a career, and if it should.
More importantly, insofar as is possible, RW will attempt to separate out what is beneficial for the teaching institution and his own teaching career and ego, from what is beneficial for the student's development and potential entry into the real-world music business as it exists now, (rather than how it existed when RW himself was a student decades ago--or even RW's teacher's even way further back) and endeavor to place much greater importance on the latter.
Most importantly, he will point out the most valuable but not always most obvious thing, that a careful study of music teaches one how to teach oneself anything in the world.
He will also insist that his college students never put a space before a comma, and always put one after.
But of course, most of this explains why I would never be selected in the first place.
RW is a highly experienced musician, the specifics of which are unimportant. He will teach music and musicianship and how to apply such musicianship to life going forward after college, whether or not it becomes a career, and if it should.
More importantly, insofar as is possible, RW will attempt to separate out what is beneficial for the teaching institution and his own teaching career and ego, from what is beneficial for the student's development and potential entry into the real-world music business as it exists now, (rather than how it existed when RW himself was a student decades ago--or even RW's teacher's even way further back) and endeavor to place much greater importance on the latter.
Most importantly, he will point out the most valuable but not always most obvious thing, that a careful study of music teaches one how to teach oneself anything in the world.
He will also insist that his college students never put a space before a comma, and always put one after.
But of course, most of this explains why I would never be selected in the first place.