Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2006-10-19 20:29
Hard words, but true ones, I suppose.
Let me clarify.
Music is my life. I really don't do anything else aside from some writing and casual scribbling on paper I like to call art. I have been playing a number of musical instruments since the age of about 3 or 4, and I knew when I was about 10 that music was something I was going to want to do for the rest of my life.
I started piano when I was 6 - I've taken AP music theory (and passed, yay!), and have been in every single musical opportunity the school has given me, I'm even in chorus. The drive for perfection is something that's instinctive for me when it comes to music. Anything less simply isn't acceptable, and my shortcomings on the clarinet are frustrating because my teacher is extremely discouraging and I can't seem to overcome them.
I'm not nessicarily very talented, but I do my best to work as hard as I can.
I'm applying to these schools is because I've researched them extensively (wanted to go to Peabody since 10th grade, Oberlin since 9th), I will go anywhere that takes me as long as I can get good training and keep playing - I can't imagine or even think of myself doing or being anything except a musician.
So there's no question in my mind that music is the focal point of my existence. I just don't know where to go with which instrument. I don't like the options I've got right now, and I do have a good track record on the clarinet, I just can't seem to get back into liking to play it anymore. Which is really kind of sad, because I love the instrument.
I'm submitting all of my applications on December the first - I can't do regional auditions, I have to do recorded. I don't have the money to fly places...
*~"The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument- the voice of heroic love."~*
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