My name is Rebecca, and I am a freshman oboe performance major at MSU. This is something I have had to prepare for over the course of my life – not anybody can just waltz (no pun intended) into any old college and proclaim themselves a music major. It’s a long process of touring music schools, visiting with professors, preparing audition pieces many months in advance, finally auditioning, and then deciding where you want to go once the results get back to you. Becoming a music major involves a lot of different, extra work on top of what typically is required to attend college. Music is a very personal profession – in other words, if you want to be a good musician, you have to put part of yourself in the music. Make sacrifices. All the finances, tears, control, time, and dedication I have put into studying music over the years may not sound like a good time, but I have never done anything more fulfilling in my life. I still don’t have a second thought about being an oboe performance major.
It all started eleven years ago from this month exactly: I started taking piano lessons– but that is only where the journey started. A few years after starting piano, I was in beginning band learning to play the oboe. From then on, the instruments and musical experience seemed to pile on. It was a quite natural succession to where I am now. I started to take lessons on oboe, started to learn the torturous art of reed making, picked up trombone and organ along the way, participated in many extracurricular ensembles and music camps, auditioned, taught, learned – I took every musical opportunity I could handle. By senior year of high school, I didn’t want to do anything but music. Now I’m here! I’m going to college to be a musician! I still have those pesky“gen eds” to deal with, but for the most part I’m excited to be using my life to (mostly) be a musician.
That brings me to my next point: WRA 150, section 38 – my writing class, also known as one of those“pesky gen eds”. Though part of this blog’s purpose is to fulfill a requirement for this class, I do get to use it as an opportunity to explore and explain what it means to be a musician. What is the requirement? To pick a profession I am interested in and explore it through literature and writing, reccording what I learn in blog form. As you can see from the above “about me” ramble, I wouldn’t pick any other profession. This blog is yet another example of how music infiltrates most areas of my life. Enjoy!
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