Cassatt Quartet violinist Jennifer
Leshnower (right) gives a little advice on bow technique to Talitha
West (C01), a member of the all-student Washington Square
String Quartet, practicing Beethovens Quartet No. 7 in F major
during a Feb. 23 workshop at the new Amado Recital Hall in Irvine
Auditorium. The all-female Cassatt Quartet visits the campus each
semester for master classes and workshops as part of its two-year
residency in the Music Department.
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)