castles in the air

[danger03]

Now I want to either be a professional clarinetist or a high school physics teacher. That's what I tell my friends, parents, and academic advisers.  But that's not the whole truth.  One day I might--just might--like to compose as well.

Over the years I've toyed with the idea in my head.  Lately I've given more serious thought to acutally what I

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[runnerup]

I'm going to ask you the same question I ask of a lot of music people, and I may have asked you already: What do you know of Vaughan Williams', and what do you like / what has influenced you. His music has the same effect on me when I think about my homeland, that you say Barber's First Symphony has on you when you look at the Chicago skyline. I just like to share.

--Rob

[forcemajeure]

I liked this entry a lot; writing about music is difficult (insert Laurie Anderson's quote about how talking about music is like swimming about architecture).

Doug has ambitious desires to compose too, and is trying to go about it incrementally, starting with smaller bits of music and working up. Brian Eno is often asked about the sound he composed for Microsoft, which plays when Windows 95 boots up; in a San Francisco Chronicle interview, he said:

The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem -- solve it

[danger03]

Hey, awesome. The President's Own is my dream and the main reason I'm still playing clarinet. Who is your teacher? Have you met Vicki Gotcher?

[pharm1215]

"Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others--yes, and a lot less dangerous."
I really like that; thanks for sharing.