Hi all
Thanks for all the warm welcomes!
Been too busy to post, so now I'm playing catchup:
Several posts mentioned songs they sung in choir or
music class. Here's a couple of mine:
My 5th grade music teacher was Miss Light. She was
anything but!
We sang really gory, macabre songs all the time (I
have no idea where she found them). I remember one
song that ended with a lyric something like "pity the
cowboy all bloody and red
His horse jumped on him and mashed in his head".
I'd love to hear some of those now. we thought they
were way cool back then!
I spent 4 years in high school choir. My choir
director was notorious for making us sing horrid
things (he had a Barry Manilow fetish). We sang, for
example, the theme song to the Donny & Marie tv show!
One good one, though is a choral arrangement of Neil
Young's After the Gold Rush that the women's choir
sang. It was the first I'd ever heard that song, and I
still like it better than Neil's version.
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Rose wrote:
> I'm thinking seriously about going back to school to
pursue a new
career.
Do
> you think it's too late?
NO! DO IT! I did, and it was one of the most
fufilling, empowering things I have ever done for
myself. Ten years after finishing college, I quit my
job, and went to graduate school in a completely
differnt area from my bachelor's degree. I now have an
MFA and am devoting all the time I can to making art.
and I love it!
As cliche as it sounds, I took inspiration for taking
the plunge in part from an Ann Landers column. Someone
wrote in wanting to follow his dream and go to medical
school at age 45. He was asking if he should go ahead,
as he would be in his early 50's when he finished 7
years of school and residencies.
Ann's reply: "How old will you be in 7 years if you
don't go to school?"
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