[lit-ideas] Re: Cheney's shooting expedition
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:40:19 EST
I was taught piano from age 4 and violin from age 8 -- I wanted to play the
flute, but my Mother had wanted to have violin lessons when she was a kid and
couldn't, so she wanted them badly for me. I didn't want to hurt her
feelings.... I played both through College -- AA in Music, Primary instrument
piano, secondary violin, some classical guitar. When I had to leave College I
couldn't face the instruments anymore. I haven't touched the violin since.
Sometimes if I'm alone in the house I mangle some Schubert or Beethoven on the
piano for old times' sake. My 14 year old has played violin (HER choice) for
5 years, flute (HER choice) for 3 (Honors band and honors orchestra), and
has quite successfully taught herself (because I didn't want to push it on
her)
the piano -- going in 9 months from my showing her middle C and how to hold
her hands to playing a quite passable Chopin Prelude, entirely from memory.
She's begun composing her own music. Scary. I hope she doesn't burn out too
soon. Her music is her destressor -- as it used to be mine. When she's
upset or angry or depressed she gravitates to her flute or piano and works it
out. She also sings in a local Symphony Society Choir. Singing always
changes
her foul black moods to upbeat joy. I miss "doing" music ....but the
muscles and brain have atrophied and I can't stand the sound that emerges,
knowing
what I used to be able to do. Blame Marlena -- she had to ask.
Julie Krueger
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On Feb 21, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Wonder if he has a fishing license, too?
>
> For me, $25 is a bit much--and so I can understand not wanting to pay
> for a license. But, I will--it IS the law after all...but it makes me
> cross--I don't want to because of sparing the money, not because I'm
> above the law.
[snip]
> Speaking of the price of gas, (whine whine), I had to not allow my
> child to take the bass lessons he always wanted--the orchestra teacher
> in his middle school said that my son could catch up if he took the
> lessons form this guy--who's the best in the area--so that within two
> years, he'd be not only ready for high school orchestra (he decided to
> not continue with the violin--and had always wanted to play the bass
> but was not big enough...and he finally is! [this is still exciting to
> us...], but his dream of playing jazz would come true. However, the
> private instructor is over on the Kansas side and the gas just tipped
> the cost of the lessons over the edge beyond the budget.
Why don't bass lessons come with the cost of a fishing license?!!!
>
> What instrument do you play? Would you play if you had been given the
> opportunity? What is it that you like about it?
>
I don't play the bagpipes and the piano...until there's no one else
home. It's not a matter of opportunity; it's a matter of aptitude,
with which I was not amply endowed. The music genes seem to have
skipped a generation.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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