Chapter 16
I called Trevor’s office that Monday and we sat down Thursday afternoon.
We talked for a long time about my background and his teaching philosophy. I liked his style. I learned he was also an east coast native, coming from Virginia, and was a graduate of Princeton.
Then we started talking about the teaching position in question.
“We’d like the next person in this position to conduct the orchestra and teach advanced conducting. There would be no more than two classes of that, although Stephen has high hopes—with faculty like you—of turning this into a premier music program; one that would attract students from all over.”
“Well, I don’t want to dash his hopes, but you haven’t seen me teach, yet. I must tell you that I had a teaching job when I graduated from B.U. and I wasn’t
