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Author: Carl L
Date: 2001-06-16 19:21
Alright, here's one for you serious players. What was the defining moment when you realized music was going to be an intregal part of your life?( This is aimed at top amateurs as well as pros.) Was it a song you heard? A performer you saw? I'll kick it off with my own personal experience: 1961, Theater-In-The-Round, Buffalo N.Y., front row, watching and listening to Al Hirt play "Fly Me To The Moon"...My life changed at that moment! How about you all?
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Author: Kim
Date: 2001-06-16 21:42
I am going to enter my junior year as a music major this fall. It's kinda scary! Anyway, I think high school was my defining moment. My town wasn't very supportive of the arts whatsoever and there were many threats to cut the all the arts programs out of the whole school system. I was very upset every year in high school and wanted to make every effort possible to make people understand that music really mattered. I even wrote an essay entitled "Schools Should Realize that Music Counts." I was quite negative back in high school.
In my senior year of high school, I observed an elementary school music teacher. She was pretty cool and the students seemed to be really interested in music. I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do back then, though. All I could do was relate back to the negative experiences of high school.
College rolled around, and what a difference! I could finally be myself and be interested in music! I had a great time playing in the bands and all, but I still related everything to high school. It hasn't been until just recently that I know what I really want to do.
The program that I graduated from three years ago is beginning to blossom. There are 150 members in the fifth grade band. They even started a string program in the third and fourth grades. This is making me very happy because of the progress that is being made. I was told that the students are more interested in music than they ever were before. That just makes me really happy.
My defining moment is realizing that things don't always stay the same. Once I saw that my town's music program was finally blossoming it made me feel all good inside because I saw that it could be done. My town went from scratch and is becoming something wonderful for the students. The students will always remember the experiences that they had when they were in the younger grades and that is the most important thing. It is for this that I want to be a music educator.
Kim
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Author: Ken
Date: 2001-06-16 22:53
When I was 13, (1970) my parents took a trip to New Orleans for Madi Gras and brought me along. My dad bribed the doorman at Pete Fountain's club and got me in. We were ushered to a front row table (years later my Dad told me he slipped him a 50 dollar bill in addition to cover charges). Pete's bell was only 10 feet from my face. After hearing him and the band play their first tune, "His Eye is on the Sparrow" I knew at that moment I was going to devote my life to music and the clarinet.
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Author: Suzanne
Date: 2001-06-17 03:50
When I was 17, I played in a symphony orchestra for the first time, it was the San Diego Youth Symphony, and I knew that this was what I was made to do. I love symphonic music. I feel more at home in the orchestra than I do in my own room.
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-06-17 04:11
I think I'm still looking for my real defining moment but so far, I think its gotta be my private teacher meeting me at school the Monday after all stae auditions to tell me personally that I was the best player in the state, I was in the process of putting my clarinet in my locker and I dropped my music bag when he said it; he had to catch it before it hit the ground!! At least thats how I knew that I would be playing this next year, Because if it weren't for that I would because me director's a BIG JERK!!
Sara
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Author: Sandee
Date: 2001-06-17 23:33
"What was the defining moment when you realized music was going to be an intregal part of your life?"
Music has always been an intregal part of my life. I used to fall asleep listening to my aunt play piano (Fur Elise) even before I started school. I learned to read music at about the same time I learned to read english. It is only recently that I realized a) this is not true for the rest of the world and b) I would always find a way to have music in my life.
I have played piano, guitar, violin (oh, my poor family's ears) bassoon and clarinet. The woodwinds rule, you know, and clarinet rules the woodwinds....
Sandee
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Author: Steve
Date: 2001-06-18 13:50
I decided to become a music major in college at 17, after listening to a recording of the 1812 Overture. Had some sort of "peak experience". Not much to base the entire rest of your life on, but it worked out OK. Didn't stay in music professionally, but it is still a major part of my life.
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Author: Meri
Date: 2001-06-19 23:29
I think my defining moment happened around the beginning or at the latest, the middle of my grade 11 year. (1994-95) It started when I earned the privilege of playing on one of the school's wood clarinets, and then being part of a music research project for one of the two music teacher's Ph.D., which had to do with the study of an alternative music curriculum centered around music composition via MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) as opposed to music performance, where she and the three students who were a part of it kept a music journal. It was a time where I was deeply devoted to music, not only in performance (band, choir, chamber ensembles, all-city groups, and honours bands), but also in composition and arrangement.
Meri
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