my voice.
Where is my voice?
Music has become questions to me- courtesy of Balderston, I assure you. I have always played the cello, and mostly because I did it well. It's been what I do - I tried tap, ballet, soccer, math olympiad - but cello was the only thing that stuck. The only reason I can see why, is because I was decent at it. Maybe there was some secret higher calling, but I'm sure my 10 year old self couldn't have seen it at the time.
So now, here I am. Eighteen, almost nine years of playing cello, and I only now feel I am beginning to play music. I never thought about what it all meant - music, being a musician. It is not just playing in an orchestra. Getting the job, playing it the best. Besides, the best is subjective, anyways!
Being an artist - expressing myself. I find myself at the point where I want to- I have things I want to show, to express, to share - and I don't know how. I've been feeling it inside, thinking it all as I play the cello.
It's time for me to create music.
Again I ask, where is my voice? Is it an impassioned, frantic voice, or a lamenting, willowy cry? I suppose I should be able to change to what I need, but now I understand the need to have your voice. I've never liked my own voice, so now I'll make one I like through the cello.
I want to be a musician, not a cellist.
Music has become questions to me- courtesy of Balderston, I assure you. I have always played the cello, and mostly because I did it well. It's been what I do - I tried tap, ballet, soccer, math olympiad - but cello was the only thing that stuck. The only reason I can see why, is because I was decent at it. Maybe there was some secret higher calling, but I'm sure my 10 year old self couldn't have seen it at the time.
So now, here I am. Eighteen, almost nine years of playing cello, and I only now feel I am beginning to play music. I never thought about what it all meant - music, being a musician. It is not just playing in an orchestra. Getting the job, playing it the best. Besides, the best is subjective, anyways!
Being an artist - expressing myself. I find myself at the point where I want to- I have things I want to show, to express, to share - and I don't know how. I've been feeling it inside, thinking it all as I play the cello.
It's time for me to create music.
Again I ask, where is my voice? Is it an impassioned, frantic voice, or a lamenting, willowy cry? I suppose I should be able to change to what I need, but now I understand the need to have your voice. I've never liked my own voice, so now I'll make one I like through the cello.
I want to be a musician, not a cellist.