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It has been a great quarter having
the opportunity to learn all about classical music. Having reread my first blog
post I feel that I have definitely accomplished the goals that I was trying to
achieve.
It’s not hard to say which
performance was the most impactful for us, it absolutely had to be Peter and the Wolf by the Tacoma Symphony.
I only say it’s Peter, because my
whole family decided to start playing instruments after that show. My oldest son, now plays the clarinet with aspirations
of playing the bassoon in junior and senior high. My youngest son now plays the
trumpet and would like to also learn the French horn when he’s older. Both boys
want to learn the guitar as well, after a fun trip to the music store and an impromptu
lesson by one of the store employees. I, of course, now play the violin,
something I have wanted to do all my life! I can play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star…well, it’s more like just Twinkle, Twinkle no little star yet but I’ll
get it eventually. I would also like to take up playing the piano again. One of
the reasons I quit was because I got bored with the music my teacher was
teaching me. I wanted to learn more exciting
pieces and be challenged, unlike before it that won’t stop me now. I am finding
that music is really a great outlet for me in dealing with stress and helps me
focus when my brain has too much to think about. It also brings a new level of
enjoyment to my life I don’t feel I’ve ever had.
I have to say however, that despite
Peter’s obviously impact on us because
of the instruments all of the performances we saw did something to us in some
way. I learned how important it is to hear live music verses just from YouTube
or my computer’s hard drive, I had never noticed for some reason how much you
could feel from music. Maybe, it had to
do with my children’s insistence on sitting centered in the front row for
nearly every performance that I really began to notice, I guess by sitting
where they wanted to, it felt like we were involved somehow in what the
musicians were doing on the stage. Which only made the performances that much
more exciting.
I am so thankful for this class. It
has taught my children and I how to enjoy live concerts and classical
music. Over the weekend when we went to
the Olympia Symphony practice, my oldest son had a basketball game that had
conflicting times. He however, chose to
forgo the game so we could go to the symphony which I thought was really
awesome! Not many eight year olds would do something like that. Also, learning
how to create a blog has been an entertaining learning experience as well. I
will be going to China over the summer for a study abroad program and, because
of this class, I will be documenting my experiences via blog for my Chinese
Culture Club. Since the China trip will also be doubling as a research trip I
will be able to document what I am doing which will enhance my senior research
paper and hopefully help with my graduate studies as well.
Thank you for showing my family how
to enjoy music!
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