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Those harmonies...

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Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss

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This has a deeply personal meaning, going back to my uni days.

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Brahms - Symphony No.3 - Poco Allegretto

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What's great: the harmonies, double guitar solo, subtle groove, put me in a certain mindset

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This is painfully difficult to narrow down!

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HS was a time to study violin and piano more seriously. Along with that came music theory and history, preparing pieces for music festivals, private lesson recitals, honor orchestra--all very much like ISB students experience. Except not right now.

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I loved singing and was in a girls' quartet at my church singing 4-part harmony plus singing in the choir. I could only (!) enroll in two music classes so I dropped band and said hello, choir! Bonus: sometimes I got to accompany the choir.

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I loved jazz but the school wouldn't let me play the euphonium in jazz band (I was in middle school now), so I learned trombone.

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I got braces near the end of g5 and it was awful to have that tiny mouthpiece cutting the inside of my mouth. Enter the Euphonium, with a much bigger mouthpiece and bearable pain.

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In 5th grade we could start playing a band instrument, and, just as for strings, you got to miss class. My dad played trumpet so this was an easy choice-clearly daughter was trying to please her daddy!

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We could start playing a string instrument in g4-and best of all, we'd get to miss class twice per week to do it! Since I already played violin, they had me learn viola so I'd be challenged by the clef.

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I finally saw the light and decided piano was a better choice than accordion.

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                                  SO.  MANY.  INSTRUMENTS.

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                                  SO.  MANY.  INSTRUMENTS.

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Mom used to strap it onto me with a strap across my back that kept the arm straps from falling off because I was so small and skinny. I'd sit on a low stool, and once I was strapped in, I couldn't even stand up! I'd have to call her if I needed to use the toilet. This is what I looked like in Kindergarten on Hawaii Day, the same year I started to learn the accordion.

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When I was in HS I remember programming an Apple II computer to play the Star Spangled Banner. Those were the first computers in schools and we had to learn to program in Basic.

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Is this a violin or viola?

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Mom played soprano saxophone and then drums (only snare drum) in a community band in Eastern Kansas. This would have been 1946-1952.

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She played piano and drums, and was quite musical. We used to play songs together and get out of school at lunch time to go play for senior citizens at a place they'd have lunch. My mom made us do it, but I actually liked it and I got out of school.

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I still have his trumpet, and the sticker on the case says Oberlin--that's the town of 1,200 in NW Kansas where he went to school. He would have played 1940-1948.

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Mom always said she didn't want me to play violin or clarinet because of how they sounded. So I saved up money I earned from pulling weeds in our garden (5 cents per row) ironing my dad's handkerchiefs (10 cents each) or pillow cases (50 cents each) and so on. One day I asked my mom if we could go buy a violin because I had saved up 45 dollars. She didn't say anything but I can imagine what she was thinking!