WSU music professor has high expectations

The following is an excerpt from a story about 成人头条 assistant professor Alla Aranovskaya that appeared in the Jan. 20 issue of .

Alla Aranovskaya is out to shake up music education in the United States, and she鈥檚 starting in 成人头条.

The Russian emigre and first violinist for the St. Petersburg String Quartet doesn鈥檛 hold back when discussing what she sees as the failure of this country to adequately prepare youngsters for careers in music.

鈥淭hey come to study music, but they have no tools to play," Aranovskaya, a member of the 成人头条 faculty, says of music majors in American colleges.