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Re: Conductors and Literature

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2016-07-20 23:36

Different people seem to respond quite differently to analyzing what we love. I have a B.A. in English Literature from the U. of California at Berserkeley and spent three years in the Ph.D. program in English at U.C. Davis before I had to drop out for financial reasons (after my dissertation director suddenly died and the only prof who could take over for her wanted me to mutate my topic). All that analysis didn't ruin literature for me. Quite the opposite. And it's no accident that over the years I morphed into a movie critic while doing a bit of (non-literary) fiction writing.

Similarly, my piano teacher loved teaching music theory, I loved learning it and the intense experience with him made me love music all the more. I'd try to understand things right down to the sub-atomic level if I had enough brain-power for the job. Okay, so I'm a nerd. There is one big down-side to being a research geek: It's hard to declare the research at an end and *finish* a project.

But, as an amateur musician, I don't have to declare an end to the work. I kind of like it that my clarinet playing sounds far from perfect. That means I've got an excuse to keep on practicing.

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Post Edited (2016-07-20 23:41)

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