Me as a Musician Part III: High School & College

Today I am writing as I sit in on a concert praising the works of Robert Schuman.  Schuman's music is remarkably peace full to listen too.  It's definitely music to listen to while napping or reading a book.

Part III:

High school was rather eventful for me.  my freshman year I attended the the newly built Pioneer High.  The band instructor was a cook.  Imagine Mr. Barry, then imagine him trying to strangle you with that horror film nose hair.   That was this guy.  I can't even remember his name.   I broke my hand during the fall, and couldn't play music for about 2 months.  In the spring, I got in a fight and was taken out of public school by my parents.  I continued music in the form of piano, and going to see Mr. Holck every couple of days and filling in the holes in his percussion section.  My sophomore year is when things got hairy.  I was doing home school, and my mom took me to the well established Woodland Sr. High School in search of  the musical mythology surrounding the should be legendary John Abigana.  Nothing but good can be said about the man, however I was terrified upon first arriving at the school.  band with Mr. A changed my life.  I made my longest lasting friends ships in his band classes, and had the best fun and learning experience.  In his class, I got to play in many well remembered pieces.  We played Mars and Jupiter from Gustav Holst's  "The Planets"   we also playing a five movement piece called "The Sorcerers Suite"  it is a composition based on the prominent characters of the Harry Potter books.  Because Warner Bros own the copyrights to all things Harry or Potter, the movements were titled as vague analogues to the story line.  I can't remember any f the ridiculous names, perhaps I will look for them in my music books.  My most favorite works are the Gustav Holst's Military Suites for Band.  The first suite is simply title "First Suite in Eb for Military Band."  The three movements are "Chaconne," "Intermezzo." and "March."  The Second suite is titled similarly: "Second Suite in F for Military Band."  The four movements are: "March," "Song Without Words," "Song of the Blacksmith," and "Fantasia on the Dargason."  Another magnum opus we performed was "Hobbits" from the "Lord of the Rings Suite."  I do not mean the movie score.  this music was written by Johan de Meij.  The Suite consists of five movements  "Gandalf," "Lothlorien,"Gollum," "Journey in the Dark," and "Hobbits."

During High school, I auditioned for the Nor Cal Honor Band, as well as the All State Honor Band. I got 

into nor cal, no such luck on the all state.I got into several music schools during my senior year. During the

2007 band trip, I auditioned at Fresno State and Chapman University. Both places said they would have

me, but something was not right. Upon my audition for Galen Lemmon, and SJSU. I knew I was in the

right place. The entire campus felt right to me. College. College has me on the edge. Whether that edge is

despair or success, I cannot tell. All I know is that I am a much better musician than ever before, and I have

only the wish to get better. I wish that I didn't have to take the GE courses required to get a degree. I need

to just focus on becoming an excellent musician, and to focus on learning what life means for me.