You know?
You know what REALLY pisses me off?
When kids have talent and their parents ignore it and try to force them to do something else. This has not happened to me, as my talent (or lack thereof) and passion has always been in music, and my parents are both very musical (my dad sings and has an amazing ear, which I have inherited, and my mom was a prima ballerina and a Rockette, though I can't dance worth shit), so I was lucky. But I have a few friends who are a-fucking-mazing in music and their parents want them to be a doctor or a lawyer or some high-paying profession. Like my friend K. She's an outstanding violinist, beautiful tone quality, amazing sight-reader, etc. But her mother (she has no dad) wants her to be a doctor so she's not allowed to play violin next year. K came to my crying the other day freaking crying because she loves playing the violin and her mom is taking that away. Or Tony. He's a brilliant bassoonist and baritonist, but he has to fight his mother to let him take music classes. This also pisses me off.
When people tell me I have to 'focus on one instrument'. I.E: My band director. He tells me I need to focus on one instrument, and I'm like, '"Why? I'm going into composing and I want to know HOW to be able to play what I'm writing for, to give a scale of difficulty to it." And he tells me that just one to get through music school or I'm gonna be a jack of all trades and a master of none. (I hate that phrase.) So I tell him I don't WANT to focus yet. I want to keep trying. I haven't found one that I'm truly in love with, and I doubt I will, since I love them all. And he tells me to stop being a smart-ass and that he knows better for me than I do. My choir director and voice teacher tell me this, too. And, of course, they always have an opinion on what I should focus on. The only one I'm not ticked at is my orchestra teacher, because she says it's actually a good way of learning how difficult to make a peice I'm writing. But she's leaving next year. So... I'm fucked in that aspect.
Anyway. Today was fun. Went outside, watered plants, got into a water fight with teh_mom. Anyway. I'm gonna rave silently in bed. The dog is barking and it's irritating me.
Toodles, Ellen/Puck
When kids have talent and their parents ignore it and try to force them to do something else. This has not happened to me, as my talent (or lack thereof) and passion has always been in music, and my parents are both very musical (my dad sings and has an amazing ear, which I have inherited, and my mom was a prima ballerina and a Rockette, though I can't dance worth shit), so I was lucky. But I have a few friends who are a-fucking-mazing in music and their parents want them to be a doctor or a lawyer or some high-paying profession. Like my friend K. She's an outstanding violinist, beautiful tone quality, amazing sight-reader, etc. But her mother (she has no dad) wants her to be a doctor so she's not allowed to play violin next year. K came to my crying the other day freaking crying because she loves playing the violin and her mom is taking that away. Or Tony. He's a brilliant bassoonist and baritonist, but he has to fight his mother to let him take music classes. This also pisses me off.
When people tell me I have to 'focus on one instrument'. I.E: My band director. He tells me I need to focus on one instrument, and I'm like, '"Why? I'm going into composing and I want to know HOW to be able to play what I'm writing for, to give a scale of difficulty to it." And he tells me that just one to get through music school or I'm gonna be a jack of all trades and a master of none. (I hate that phrase.) So I tell him I don't WANT to focus yet. I want to keep trying. I haven't found one that I'm truly in love with, and I doubt I will, since I love them all. And he tells me to stop being a smart-ass and that he knows better for me than I do. My choir director and voice teacher tell me this, too. And, of course, they always have an opinion on what I should focus on. The only one I'm not ticked at is my orchestra teacher, because she says it's actually a good way of learning how difficult to make a peice I'm writing. But she's leaving next year. So... I'm fucked in that aspect.
Anyway. Today was fun. Went outside, watered plants, got into a water fight with teh_mom. Anyway. I'm gonna rave silently in bed. The dog is barking and it's irritating me.
Toodles, Ellen/Puck