Last Friday, I had the pleasure of being a clinician at a middle school band camp. The gig was through the Navy, which is a first for me. I normally do this on the civilian side, but it was fun to do it in uniform! Anyway, all the students wrote little notes for us, and I wanted to share some of them because it truly touched my heart. Sometimes it’s hard to recognize how I do with these things. I usually leave thinking, ‘I hope they learned something’, or ‘I hope I had an positive impact on them’. But this time, I have PROOF that I did leave an impression, and that is worth more to me than gold.
Seriously, I can’t even.
This is why I teach.
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After achieving my dream of graduating from Eastman with my MM degree in 2009, I chose to not to go back to school for a doctorate (which is what many musicians do after their masters degree) and decided to go for it and pursue a full time performance job. After over a year of working an office "day job" and auditioning like crazy, I have won a job with the U.S. Navy fleet bands and will be shipping out in May 2011. But my auditioning adventures are not over, there is a position open in the premiere Navy Band in Washington D.C.! I will be auditioning for that position in January 2011.
Here I document my successes, my failures, and my overall thoughts on life.
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