{"id":333,"date":"2009-03-09T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/03\/global_warming\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T01:22:47","slug":"global_warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/03\/global_warming.html","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American conservatories have been redesigned from without &#8212; through an increasingly high level of applicants. In the United States, we have no national network of government-sanctioned schools of music. No national conservatory. Our high-level schools are schools to the world. And the students get better every year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, people play the piano <em>so<\/em> well, it can be hard to look for more. To some extent, almost every excellent college looks at demographics in choosing a new class. Some geographic balance, a balance of women and men, a potential student&#8217;s extra strengths and commitments. In music schools, we think of &#8220;meritocracy.&#8221; Often, we imagine that admission is based just on what we hear. Can even a very perceptive jury of pianists assess someone&#8217;s lifelong musical potential by hearing a few minutes of playing?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pianiste.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/Pianiste.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"190\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American conservatories have been redesigned from without &#8212; through an increasingly high level of applicants. In the United States, we have no national network of government-sanctioned schools of music. No national conservatory. Our high-level schools are schools to the world. And the students get better every year. Now, people play the piano so well, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[588,213,391,590,589,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-american-music-schools","9":"tag-audition","10":"tag-conservatory","11":"tag-demographics","12":"tag-entrance-exam","13":"tag-entrance-examination","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}