Between telephones, car phones, FAX machines, computers, answering machines, and airplanes, the String Academy of Wisconsin was created in the months of July and August and opened its doors in September to 160 students. It is fortunate that we live in an age of high-tech machines, because my faculty was scattered all over the country teaching and playing in summer festivals while our school was being organized. I embarked on a new career, that of president of a non-profit educational organization, and this is the story that I would like to tell. The YVCP faculty and I elected to leave the conservatory and form The String Academy of Wisconsin.
The decision of whether to stay at the conservatory or to start a separate school had to be made. Last June, however, it looked as if the last rites were ready to be administered. Over the years, the conservatory had suffered from many financial problems but had always managed to survive. I had gathered a young, highly qualified faculty from all over the country to teach in this program. It had developed into a thriving program, with 200 pre-college students studying the violin, viola, and cello in private and group lessons master classes and theory, history, chamber music, and chamber orchestra classes. From 1982 to 1990, in addition to being a Professor of Music at Indiana University, I was director of the Young Violinists and Cellists Program (YVCP) at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
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