Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,800 students and a faculty of approximately 430 (2004 figures). Degree program tuition is approximately $20,350 for the fall through spring academic year (2004-2005 figures).
Berklee was founded by Lawrence Berk and was originally named Schillinger House of Music, after his teacher Joseph Schillinger. Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music after his son Lee Berk in 1954, and after the school received its accreditation, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music in 1973.
At the time of its founding, almost all music schools focused primarily on classical music. The original mission of Berklee was to provide formal training in jazz, rock, and other popular music not available at other music schools.
The great Brazilian singer and songwriter Rosa Passos will perform with Berklee students and faculty in a concert featuring her songs along with the music of Gilberto Gil, Jobim, Djavan, and Joao Bosco.
More than 70,000 music lovers flocked to Boston's South End for Berklee's annual free festival, one day after an unforgettable concert at Symphony Hall.
Berklee's student-run jazz record label releases its fourth album, featuring eight young, passionate, and committed artists from around the world, all speaking the traditional language of jazz in a new way.
Music and Dance were considered sacred and often the intrument was chosen by the teacher, not the student.
Music Correspondence schools started to spring up around the turn of the century, and among the most famous were "The American Conservatory", and "The U.S. School of Music" in Philadelphia and New York.
Berklee was one of the first serious institutions for the study of Jazz and Commercial Music in America, and is today the world's largest resident musicschool.
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