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So, without any fireworks or special announcements, I am back. I am going to use what I started as a place to document what I encounter as a young professional musician in Boston. I might occasionally vent or pat someone (preferably not myself) on the back for a deed well done. I also might at some point dust off the soap box that started this blog in the first place, but at any rate I believe that putting our thoughts and ideas into writing is a beautiful and nobble part of being human. Therefore! I vow to spend a least a little time each month on things more inspiring, such as my blog. Who knows, this might just help me kick my social media addiction once and for all!
Monday, September 8, 2014
2010 vs 2014
About four years ago, I started this blog. I made one post, started another that never even made it passed my drafts and then that was it, I didn't log on anymore.
Now I know why I stopped blogging.... that is if you can really say that I ever actually started. I was an undergraduate fighting my way upstream through the rough currents of conservatory life, I didn't have a lot of extra time and even less extra brain power. But now due to that fact that I am required to blog in one of my graduate classes, I am reminded of what I started those four years ago and why.
A blog that I had all but forgotten about is now right here, staring at me as I click on the link to the class blog. "And you pride yourself on finishing what you start?" it seems to whisper to me. So I went back to see what I had said in my one and only post. As I read my "brilliant" almost 20 year old style, it is both comforting and painful to see who I was then in contrast to who I am now. It is only natural that over the last four years of my life that I would have changed. Now as a second year Masters student, I have a more well rounded perspective then I did then, but I haven't lost my passion for my topic. And unlike my 19 teen year old self that fancied myself quite grown up, I become a little more aware every single day how much I still have to learn. A humbling and somewhat painful reality indeed.
Time is still not something I have a great deal of and when I do have a bit of time, I tend to volunteer it to either my school or my church and then well, there it goes. However, if I have time to read my Facebook newsfeed, which sorry guys, is really actually quite dull and honestly extremely mind numbing, then I ought to have the time to jot down some thoughts on the matters of music.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Who, what and why
I am one of the last of a dieing species. I am a soon to be 20 year old and yet I love classical music.
No, don't give up on me yet! I promise that you will not find me dull. I am (and I say this with the most humble attitude) as cool as the next almost 20 year old. I go to movies, chat with friends and watch more TV in the summer than I really should:) Yet I was fortunate enough to have the world of classical music opened to me at a young age.
Why is this an exciting enough topic to start a blog on? People fight to save what is important to them. And I need to find people who share my opinions and are willing to help me fight for it!
As an up and coming classical musician I worry about having an audience in another 5 to 10 years. I also worry because so few people know the difference it can make in children's lives. The old partrons of the arts are dieing off with very few to take their places.
I have been teaching classical music to kids for 8 years already (yes since I was 12, really!)
And I have seen that it is not Classical music itself that turns kids off to it, but the way it is presented to them! I have a vision... I have a dream. A completely new way of put classical music into the heart of every child. But what will this really do for the world you ask? Never underestimate the power of music. Music can change lives and I bet many of you have stories to prove it.
I am just one person.. and a young one at that. But if I can find people of like minds- willing to talk, imagine and then do- We can create new and exciting ideas into a reality will bring the world of music alive to a whole new generation.
No, don't give up on me yet! I promise that you will not find me dull. I am (and I say this with the most humble attitude) as cool as the next almost 20 year old. I go to movies, chat with friends and watch more TV in the summer than I really should:) Yet I was fortunate enough to have the world of classical music opened to me at a young age.
Why is this an exciting enough topic to start a blog on? People fight to save what is important to them. And I need to find people who share my opinions and are willing to help me fight for it!
As an up and coming classical musician I worry about having an audience in another 5 to 10 years. I also worry because so few people know the difference it can make in children's lives. The old partrons of the arts are dieing off with very few to take their places.
I have been teaching classical music to kids for 8 years already (yes since I was 12, really!)
And I have seen that it is not Classical music itself that turns kids off to it, but the way it is presented to them! I have a vision... I have a dream. A completely new way of put classical music into the heart of every child. But what will this really do for the world you ask? Never underestimate the power of music. Music can change lives and I bet many of you have stories to prove it.
I am just one person.. and a young one at that. But if I can find people of like minds- willing to talk, imagine and then do- We can create new and exciting ideas into a reality will bring the world of music alive to a whole new generation.
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