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“Missy Mazzoli, whose compositions are equally at home uptown at Carnegie Hall, in the form of orchestral works, or downtown at the Kitchen, as electronic–vocal collaborations, has no qualms about fitting her decidedly non-conservative pedagogical approach into the Mannes environment. “People in academia often see an artificial divide, as if teaching new music is going to edge out the classical and somehow threaten the amount of time we can spend on the music of the past,” she says. On the contrary, she believes the past and the present are inextricably linked, and that it is the teacher’s responsibility to help germinate the ideas of students without adherence to any particular era or school of composition. She is excited about explorations of electronica, Auto-Tuning and sampling. “School is the time to expand and fail without consequence,” she says.”