If the conservatory can find new sources of money, who knows, in time it may recover its old prowess.

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In its present form the New School is indeed new: It is a recent amalgam of a graduate program called the New School for Social Research with two conservatory-like schools (the Parsons School of Design and the Mannes College of Music) and several less well-known entities.

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All the original teachers that unionized Conservatory in the first place have moved on to other jobs, and the new teachers are less enthusiastic about membership.

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The manuscript's trip to New York requires special conservatory preparations.

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She's also been active as an educator teaching at the State University of New York and participating in a rotating residency at North Netherlands Conservatory in Groningen, Netherlands.

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"Because it is a fairly new house, it basically meant just redecorating the rooms, but we have added on a conservatory for guests to sit in during the evenings, " explained Andy.

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The Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu is said to have more than 10, 000 students (the Juilliard in New York has 800), and the low end of estimates of the numbers of Chinese children learning piano is 30m.

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