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Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
POUGHKEEPSIE
Street Address:
Skinner Hall of Music, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
Postal Address:
Box 18, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
Fax:
+1 845 437 7114
Email 1:
Program:
Undergraduate program
Details:
Bachelor of Arts in Music. Four years. Majors in performance, composition, music history, theory.
Institution Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1861 as a women's college. It became co-educational in 1969. The music department, formed in 1865, has 65 Steinway pianos and seven pipe organs, and has access to some fine performing spaces. There is an active opera program. The George Sherman Dickinson music library houses a collection of historical instruments, some non-Western instruments, and some early editions of musical dictionaries. There are also first editions of a number of composers as well as autographed manuscripts of MacDowell and Virgil Thomson and autographed letters of Mozart, Haydn and Rossini. There is an extensive collection of books, scores and recordings.
Last Updated:
November 2022