UCSC Review Winter 1998

Campus Update: Music major puts focus on performance

Growth in the Music Department has not been limited to facilities. Along with the new Music Center, the department has been expanding its nationally recognized music program. This past fall two initiatives were launched to strengthen the department's performance programs.

A new bachelor of music (B.M.) degree offers greater opportunities for students interested in focusing their studies on performance. And to help fill that major with top students, the Resident Student Ensembles scholarship program has been created to recruit top student performers.

Music majors can now focus their studies through either the existing B.A. degree in music, which stresses scholarly achievement, or through the B.M. degree.

Beginning next academic year, the Resident Student Ensembles program will provide four-year merit-based scholarships to four UCSC students.