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...or, audition prep.
One of my grade 12s - who I've taught, like, forever - had an audition on Thursday. Once she'd played me her pieces in her lesson on Wednesday, I had to decide if I should make her work on them a lot more, or accept where they (and she) were at, and talk brain. We talked brain. Part of the conversation went like this:
Me: If you want to work in the arts, be warned - you'll have many years of existential angst.
Girl: ummm?
Me: You know, when you think you should be a lawyer or a doctor, or something that really helps people.
Girl: Well, music helps people.
Yay! My work is done. If only more people recognised this fact.
And, as an added bonus, this girl was offered a place in this course straight away. Very proud teacher.
if she became a lawyer like me she'd be haunted by existentialist angst trust me.. I'm glad she doesn't think that hard and just got the gig, good work xx
ReplyDeleteooh - this could lead to a whole lot more musing on my behalf... I would have thought (as a musician, really having to prove to others the benefits of what I do for people), that lawyers wouldn't have this problem. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not!
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