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Music memory

Jun 20, 2007 13:00

So groolover has been making posts on music and associated memories. I can’t come up with any quite as happy at the moment, but this hit me with memories as I sat at work listening to Smooth Radio (not as terrible as the name suggests, but if I never hear another radio advert again that would be just fine with me ( Read more... )

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fba June 20 2007, 12:19:21 UTC

I actually own the Enya album on vinyl - I'm not *entirely* sure why I bought it though... It is perfect music for non-verbal drama (I don't think it was dance, and didn't have the trapped-in-a-glass-box element of mime) though and I do remember using part of one of the tracks in the soundtrack to a piece we did in GCSE Drama which I got a good mark for (which naturally I was incapable of replicating for the exam - Drama was my only C at GCSE).

evilgiraffe June 20 2007, 14:17:40 UTC

You know, I had some similar sort of experiences, in two different ways. So, firstly, I too suffered through dance lessons at school. But I did like PE and chose it as a GCSE (for the tennis, athletics, rounders, badminton and trampolining), conveniently forgetting that this would mean spending the entire first six months doing 4 dance or gymnastic lessons a week. Being of a lumpy variety also, dance and gymnastics do not and never have agreed with me and so it was a painful 6 months made even worse by being in a class of 14 where the other 13 had been doing such activities since the age of 3 ( ... )

groolover June 20 2007, 19:30:51 UTC

Whee! I feel all inspirational now. (And don't worry, I started with my happiest memory, they'll plunge into despair soon no doubt!)

This story does make me realise one of the reasons why teaching burned me out, though. There are loads of teachers who, if they have to use music for something, will find a suitable selection and then never change it (these are the ones who, having planned lessons, don't see the need to replan them the following year). Whereas I was always so keen to take the chance to introduce kids to new stuff that I would always create selections from scratch every time music was needed :-) Fun but timeconsuming!

And evilgiraffe has reminded me of a song which I can never listen to without hearing myself shouting "JIGGLE, JIGGLE, JIGGLE, JIGGLE!" over it. I'll get to it in due course :p