Message from the Director 

On behalf of the University of Southern Maine School of Music I am pleased to announce the beginning of its new, long-anticipated graduate program in music. The faculty and staff are eager to welcome graduate students to the Gorham campus. Students in the master of music in music education degree program will begin taking classes this summer, and a small number of students in the other areas will join us this fall.

 "My God," Paul Hindemith once observed, "How can anyone ever be a master of music?" Music is a limitless art and an inexhaustible field of study. The one thing every graduate student will discover with equal intensity is that the more one learns about music, the more one realizes how little he or she knows. But students will also find that music can yield delight as surely in the solitude of the library stacks or the practice room as in the concert hall, the opera stage, or the jazz club. 

I hope you find this web site helpful. We will continue to add new material to this site to support graduate study in music at USM throughout the year. We welcome your questions and would be happy to provide more information and assistance to any student who wishes to apply to the program or who wants to take a course or two.

Scott Harris, Director

USM School of Music

 

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