Life = Music

Right out of the womb music has been my life. My father played the clarinet through high school, took piano lessons as a child, taught himself the flute, and can play the saxophone...and he still does today. So it was inevitable that I would get involved with music.

Like every other child, I sang during elementary school and played the recorder and all that jazz. Then in the 3rd grade I started playing my dad's clarinet and I have been playing ever since. In the 4th grade, I got put in the advanced band with the 5th graders. I took private lessons during middle school, played saxophone in the jazz band, and missed making the District band by 3 points. In high school I was first chair right off the bat, played with the pep band at football games, got involved in the pit band for musicals when I wasn't acting on the stage, and was in the Woodwind Quintet that went to play at a Band Director's Conference in Boston. We won many titles in high school at many competitions and they are moments I will never forget. I also played here at MCLA my first semester...but it isn't the same here. But I do still play on my own.

Being involved this much in making the music makes it quite obvious that I would love listening to it also. Every genre gets a chance with me. I don't care how obscure it is. I don't care if some people don't consider it music. I'll give it a chance. And so should everyone else.

So the point of this was to pretty much make the point that for some people, music is life. But it doesn't have to be their life. Music has been, and always will be, a major part of my life, but it doesn't fully define who I am. No one should be full defined by one thing...