Music Major rollcall

[Nanohedron]

"gymnasium" basically means "place where you get naked"

Sweden ... that's where all the naked musicians are, isn't it? - running nude out of steaming ITM sessions and jumping into holes in the ice?

djm

"The hiiiills are aliiiiiiiiiiive with the sauna muuuusiiiiiiiiiic..."

Oh, wait. Those be the Finns.

[LimuHead]

I was a music major. Made it to my junior year then dropped out.

The only thing I regret is not studying orchestration. Staying in college wouldn't have helped that though since the university I went to only offered choral arranging and such. I still fancy myself taking an orchestration class from the local university, though........

MikeyLikesIt is currently music major. One of the highlights, for me, of the whistle gatherings here in the San Fran Bay Area is sight-reading through tunes with him. It's a blast.

[Lambchop]

I was not a music major, but I pretended to be one.

I needed "an easy A" to bump up some unfortunate grades, so I signed up to take beginning piano. Only music majors could have a student job in the music library, but the same friend who convinced me to take piano introduced me to the librarian as "a piano student," which the librarian apparently mistook to mean a real one. (Actually, her big concern was whether I'd be prone to killing the African violets that filled the place--the last student librarian was apparently a klutz.)

Since I could do all my listening homework while I worked (the librarian had a convenient headset with which to plug into the reserved music . . . with about a 16-foot cord, so I never had to take it off), I started signing up for music courses right and left. The librarian also had dibs on the keys to the good piano rooms after hours, so I practiced in one of those. Nobody could hear what I was slaughtering, of course, so they went on for years thinking I was a piano major.

[Chiffed]

BMus from the University of Victoria in performance and secondary education. Now I just sit around being BMused.

[Congratulations]

BMus from the University of Victoria in performance and secondary education. Now I just sit around being BMused.

*groan*

[Chiffed]

I only have two jokes. That was number two.

[sweet potato]

Well, I started the music theory sequence as a senior in college... a bit late for the major. I went on to major in the equally compelling (at the time) fields of chemistry and biology. Then I did a PhD in chemistry and became a college professor in the US. Many years later I became the whistle player in a band. Now I'm on sabbatical in Norway having spent the last semester in Scotland. Life is good, so very good.

Laura

[djm]

Well, I started the music theory sequence as a senior in college... a bit late for the major. I went on to major in the equally compelling (at the time) fields of chemistry and biology. Then I did a PhD in chemistry and became a college professor in the US. Many years later I became the whistle player in a band. Now I'm on sabbatical in Norway having spent the last semester in Scotland. Life is good, so very good.

Laura

That sounds amazing! Lucky you!

djm

[sweet potato]

Yes, indeed, but I do sometimes wish I had done the music major, too!

[Byll]

Bachelor of Science: Music Education
Masters: Musical Arts

Have taught music theory and composition for more years than many on the board have been alive...

I'm old.

And that's OK.

I have been honored to have students published on the international level before they leave high school...I will retire from public school teaching at the end of this school year. It has been a good ride...

Cheers to all.
Byll

[Henke]

Oh man, I totally forgot about this thread. Did it change title or something?

Nanohedron. I had no idea about that. I guess I have to look up the origins of the word gymnasium in swedish.
I haven't seen any naked girls in school since I peeked into the ladies dressing room in Gym class. That was in 5th grade or something though.

[djm]

I haven't seen any naked girls in school since I peeked into the ladies dressing room in Gym class.

You are interfering with our preconceptions of Sweden. Aren't all the girls blonde, blue-eyed, five feet, 10 inches tall, mute?

djm

[Nanohedron]

I haven't seen any naked girls in school since I peeked into the ladies dressing room in Gym class.

You are interfering with our preconceptions of Sweden. Aren't all the girls blonde, blue-eyed, five feet, 10 inches tall, mute?

djm

Please, djm. Henke didn't infer otherwise. As for "mute", you've GOT to stop that steady diet of Bergman films.

[chas]

Yes, indeed, but I do sometimes wish I had done the music major, too!

As I'm fond of saying, it's easier to do science for a living and music as a hobby than vice-versa.

My wife was a music major (flute) for 3.5 years, then decided she needed a marketable education and became a medical technologist. It's wonderful -- we have a house full of instruments but still engage in tons of geek talk (including, possibly especially music geek talk).

[sweet potato]

[quote="chas"]My wife was a music major (flute) for 3.5 years, then decided she needed a marketable education and became a medical technologist. It's wonderful -- we have a house full of instruments but still engage in tons of geek talk (including, possibly especially music geek talk).[/quote]

My husband was a geology major but became a musician instead! We too have a house full of instruments.... we should get together for some music geek jams!

Laura