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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Jeff:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>This is kind of off the thread but
you said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“Someone who holds a music degree has merely demonstrated
that they can absorb material long enough to regurgitate it on an exam, and
that they have shown some degree of incremental improvement in musical ability
over a 2 or 4 year period, that they have attended a certain number of
performances per term and have been present and accounted for in at least one
performing ensemble each term. It has not made them musical if they were
not already.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>I hope that’s not indicative of the
music program there at USC. If it is, then I see your point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>____________________</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>David M. Porritt, RPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><a href="mailto:dporritt@smu.edu"><span
style='color:blue'>dporritt@smu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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