http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbS3WAPPSQ
This is a choral piece that Dr. Ferguson picked out for the Chenoa Easter Vigil (a service which I just started working with). It's a night easter service, and there's a bunch 'o music that some IWU Collegiate Choir men are singing, and we also get paid something like $100 to perform with it.
But this is REAL music. Performed at the highest quality by musicians of the highest caliber. This is what makes me the most happy of anything I've ever experienced in the entire world. Making real music gives me the highest high, more than any drug in the world. I got to experience a few touches of this kind of musicianship last semester, and after being without it for about 2 days (after the winter choir tour), I found myself so inexplicably empty. I was half the person that I just was.
During the three weeks off, I really soul-searched and re-examined myself from the past semester, and how much I prioritized music above everything else, even myself and even art. That's why I'm a music major now: living without that music this semester has been so difficult and trying, and I realize that making that music was what allowed me to cope with the stress of my academic and extracurricular load this year.
I know that next year will be really hard (10 classes and 4.25 credits/17 credit hours), but it's going to be worth it. Dr. Ferguson will be back, and we'll be making music again. It's going to be better. I know it.
With love,
Joe
P.S. I cried a little when I listened to that recording at the beginning of the post.
P.P.S.:
My ten classes are as follows: Major voice lessons
Minor piano lessons
Recital attendance
Co-choir
Chamber Singers
Music Theory
Functional Piano
Italian Diction
Fundamentals of Conducting
Vocal Techniques
Scary, huh?
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