Taking a Different Perspective...

July 16, 2019, 1:18 PM · When I first started this blog, I remember how excited I was about the violin. With me going to UIUC in basically a month from now and my shifting focus to my composing and teaching Music Theory, and even my piano recital I am doing at a retirement home in 9 days from now, I feel like I have been less excited about my violin, despite all my excitement for this particular instrument in the past. I remember I had so much excitement about the possibility of playing in a Symphony, but now I have more excitement writing one. (Though right now I'm taking a break from that piece due to Finale problems and just me getting less excited about it - I'm writing a song cycle with a smaller orchestral accompaniment instead right now, and I can't wait to work on it!)

However, I think I'm just a different musician. I'm not trying to be a world-class violinist, or in a big orchestra. I play my violin more for fun now - and ditto to the piano, though it does have more practical applications for teaching Music Theory. I still love reading about the evolution of different genres of music from throughout Music History, like the Symphony from Haydn to Mozart to Beethoven to Schubert to Brahms and Bruckner and Sibelius and Mahler, and Copland, Shostakovich, etc. etc. I still absolutely love that, and the fact that the orchestra changes its sound under the direction of all these different composers. So my love of music hasn't dwindled at all. I think I'm just less interested in *playing* my violin - I'm just as excited to compose for it and listen out for it in the orchestra as ever before, though!

I'm not sure what the point of this article was, but I know I'll want to look back on it in the future. It's me thinking about the violin that I think I've been constantly thinking about how much I truly enjoy playing it or not especially in my last few years at Augustana, and continuing to think about where it will be in my lifestyle in the future - I hope, still, right by my side, even if it literally is just there for me to sit down, open up my binder of random violin music I compiled back in 2012 when this all started, and just play some notes.

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