Longy School of Music of Bard College is a degree-granting institution with a Conservatory located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Master of Arts in Teaching campus in Los Angeles, California. Georges Longy, the eminent principal oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded the Longy School in Boston to provide comprehensive training in musicianship and performance in the Paris Conservatoire model. The curriculum emphasized individual attention to each student, as well as solfège and theory as the basis of sound musical understanding—traditions still central to the school's programs 100 years later.
