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Re: advice for letting go of professional dreams

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2008-11-04 05:15

In my youth I played professionally for a little over a year in a metropolitan symphony orchestra until an auto accident screwed up the motor control in one of my hands.

Twenty-six years later, I began playing again, then without the anxiety of looking over my shoulder to see who was nipping at my heels, trying to survive making peanuts for wages and worrying if my contract would be extended, and spending my life in a practice room.

I enjoy my musical life much more now than I ever did when the clarinet was my obsession and then my full-time job.

Why would anyone want to sacrifice being a musician to be a pro musician? It's not for the sheer love of music. (I don't buy that for a minute.) What is it about being paid for playing that means so much to some of us?

Thank heavens for that black Blazer that ran the red light!

B.

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