WARNING: Random musings ahead. You
WARNING: Random musings ahead.
You get a lot of thinking done on those 20-minute walks to and from class. <.g> Today I was thinking about my "musical evolution," if you will. I never considered myself a "music" person, but really, it's been a huge part of who I am since I was really little. I just didn't realize it. I always thought of myself as a movie gal. But when I was six, I built myself a violin out of cardboard and yarn. I would walk around the house pretending to play that violin and singing whatever song I should have been playing. ALL I wanted for my seventh birthday was violin lessons. I played the violin from when I was seven up until sophomore year in high school, when I was forced to choose between choir and orchestra. At that point, I liked my choir director more than my orchestra director, so I stuck with choir. But I was in school orchestras from fifth grade up until I quit orchestra in high school.
My choral life started also when I was in the second grade, with church choir, which I admittedly joined to get out of sitting through the entire hour-long church service. lol. When you're six, that sermon is looooooong. Anyway, I was in church choir until fifth grade, which is when I joined both my school choir as well as Palatine Children's Chorus. I was in Starlight in high school, which was our church "band" (5 singers, a keyboardist, drummer, and guitar player), I was in Madrigals at high school (an a capella group), and I was in high school choir all four years...
So yeah, music was a huge part of my life. I just didn't listen to the radio. Ever. Lol. Not until I got my driver's license, and then I only listened in the car. I had an extremely small CD collection which consisted mostly of soundtracks. It's grown a LOT in the last two years though. ha ha. So basically when I stopped being involved in making music (I MISS CHOIR!! Sadness.), I started getting into popular music. Weird, huh? Okay, that's the end of my mindless ramblings. Just thought it was interesting. And someday I might look back on this post and go "Boy, was I sure a weird one..."