Appreciation of Music

Hey anyone out there :)

So we had that concert tonight I wrote about in the last post. I thought we pulled it off rather successfully and had an exhilirating last piece (the Glass Timpani Concerto Fantasy), in my opinion. I know I was rushin' on adreniline from the time we commenced the third movement until I finished my food at Ikes.

I'm currently watching Beauty and the Beast with my friend and my roommate and I'm listening to the score and realize how much just this first semester and a half of my college education has affected my appreciation and understanding of music. When they strike up the band to play "Here Comes the Bride" and the first thing your mind goes to is hmmm that's a perfect fourth or ya listen to music in the background of a love scene or action scene and think wow nice oboe solo or nice harmonies down there in the horn section, it hits ya how much you've really learned and come to appreciate. My non-music major friends have come to hate me because I'll lean over during a show or movie and go psst...that's an oboe (if you haven't guessed by now, I'm an oboe player and I love the French horn haha). Thanks for reading this post, and if you're not a music person, that's ok, you don't have to be, I just ask for your support. See a show, donate ten bucks to the high school band boosters...help keep the arts in schools and keep music live...we're not called starving musicians for no reason....live music is dying out and arts are getting cut out of school programs everywhere. Music is such a wonderful thing, and helps kids (especially autistic) in school, helps healing and relieving pain (such as in cancer patients, I hear), and creates so many neural connections it's crazy! Sorry, haha, didn't mean to turn this into a PSA hehe.

So yeah. Concert was successful. Movie music scores are great. I'm still a child at heart and love Disney. French horn is amazing. So is oboe. I'm done now.

Until next time, something for you to ponder: WHY THE FREAK DON'T PEOPLE SHOWER OR DO LAUNDRY WHEN THEIR CLOTHES OR BODY SMELL/LOOK/ARE FUNKY AND THEY HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR TIME?!?!?!