But Pros Play An Awful Lot of Crappy Music, Too

Chicago’s Steans Institute for Young Artists may not be as famous a professional training ground as Tanglewood, but it has been nurturing young musicians in a semi-professional setting for 15 years. But while the program has come far from its humble origins as a chamber music seminar, Andrew Patner says that the organizers may need to reconsider some of their programming decisions, if they’re truly aiming to educate their participants, rather than simply to bore their audience.