- [Imara] Music means life. Music means passion. Music is really the only way that I know people from all over the world can connect. My name is Imara Miles, I am a music major, and I am from Bowie, Maryland. I wanna be an opera singer, travel the world. When I was looking for a college I thought where is somewhere that I wanna be for the next four years? Where is a place that is affordable, and where is a place where at the end of four years I can say that I met amazing people? And York fit every single part of the criteria. ♫ Take heart ♫ Faire hedge man side

- The music program has been like one of the greatest things of my whole life. It's just so many interesting people. So many professors who just wanna give you all of their knowledge. And every single class that I take is preparing me for the next step.

- [Professor] More.

- Give me more pure, oh vowel. Little more rounded. Oh yeah! There it is!

- [Imara] Dr. Liprid is a wonderful teacher. She's like, "Slow it down, enunciate, "sound it out, and think about what you're doing." Besides practicing, and besides learning the music, you have to have experience. I'm involved in chamber singers. I'm involved in YCP Coral. I'm involved in YCP In Harmonics, and off campus I actually have a job as a church musician. York has really made me focus on working for my goals. The school did Pirates of Penzance, and I was so excited. I played the contralto, and it was such a wonderful production. To succeed in opera I need technique. And York has definitely helped me do that.

- And registration is one of the significant factors...

- [Imara] Whether it's technique with practice methods, technique with just studying, or technique with music theory. And York has helped me by providing that foundation.

- Yeah, it's a new idea...

- I am so grateful to York, and all its faculty members. And if it weren't for York, I probably wouldn't be at college, 'cause York clicked with me, and they're always ready to help you.

- [Professor] There, that was good!