On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:40 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > Not to reiterate, but if the PTG wants universities to hire RPT's, > we need to do a LOT more promotion in that area. I heard a new data > base has been, or is being, created with all the music schools > around the country. When that happens, we need to send information > to these schools at least one a year, if not more often. Such a database has been in existence for more than three decades. The College Music Society maintains it, keeping fairly current lists of all faculty at all music degree granting institutions among other things. We (PTG, the CAUT committee) obtained that list a number of years back, and did one or perhaps two mailings either to the whole list or to an abridged one. I am not sure how effective direct mail can be. I know most of what I receive goes unopened into the recycling bin. Music administrators get an enormous volume. While I agree it is good to maximize communication and develop as high a profile as we can (as an organization), how to do that effectively is an open question. I have to say I do NOT believe we should invest heavily in getting universities to hire RPTs per se. RPT unfortunately is not a good indicator of the skills needed. In tuning, it says nothing about whether someone can produce clean _and_ solid unisons. With respect to high level regulation and voicing of grands it says nothing whatsoever. Just to mention a couple of the most obvious shortcomings. Someone who expects that an RPT, without other qualifications, is ready to do a caut job will be disappointed, and it will reflect badly on the organization if we imply differently, IMO. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100723/8ea25ea4/attachment.htm>
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