In The Beginning School Of Arts ripoff! Took my money; promised sevices and didn't deliver. No refund or attempt to rectify the problem. Over committed themselves. Bowie Maryland

Cory (known also as Fred) Carlyle promised to record music for my daughter to sing to during a paegant. He ended up changing the song from what we wanted (which is a big deal) and then delivered music the night prior to her performance.

We paid for private lessons for my daughter to perfect a song. He was too busy on two seperate occassions to give my daughter the sessions we were promised because he started a summer camp program and clearly was innundated. He ended up giving us the recorded music the night before the performance, but it was recored too fast and because it was given to us so late, my daughter didn't have time to rehearse and we ended up having to withdraw from the competition.

Cory kept promising that the missed sessions could be made up and insisted that someone would call us to schedule it. No one called. I suppose it wouldn't have mattered anyway since the whole reason we hired him/his company was to prepare my daughter for a competition which was had come and gone.

He basically overcommitted himself during a time when he claimed his summer camps needed him most. If that was the case, why did he take us on in the first place? Very unprofessional and unethical. Do you and your child a favor--- don't use this company. I'm a fair person and may have understood if he was upfront once he realized he was in over his head and defintely would have had a different oppinion had he agreed to refund part or all of my money I gave him. If you're going to use him/his company, take my advice, and DON'T PREPAY for anything and be super careful.

Jennifer
Bowie, Maryland
U.S.A.