A Little Rambling

As a music teacher, I don't have much opportunity to read my students' writing.  This week, though, they had to turn in their big quarter project, and I have been ever so amused (and a little aghast) at some of the things I've heard.  I thought I would share some of my favorites with you.  (If you don't speak music, they might not all make sense.)  There were many others that left me scratching my head, but these were the most comprehensible. "The overall dynamic was mexxo forte." (ole!) "This piece was sung by an Acapulco choir." (goes well with mexxo forte) It crescendoed to a nice mezzo-forte, adding a silent beauty to the sound."  (louder music has silent beauty how?) "The most interesting fact I found about this song is that there are not many pages on the internet about this song." "The dynamics in this piece were evident variations in volume without change." "This song has no dynamics."  (it is sil

Alas, poor blog.  Neglected is your state!  Would that I had more time to devote to cherishing you. On this cheerful Friday, I wanted to take a moment and share a glimpse of my first quarter as a *real* teacher.  It's been insanely busy, especially as I am still keeping all my weekday private students and I just started dating.  JW and I laugh that my first semester teaching and his last semester of law school is a very silly time to start a relationship, but some things are worth the effort.  "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value . Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods."  -Thomas Paine. Here's an adorable picture of us, just so you can see.  :)  Except now JW has shaved off his beard with no warning, and I'm still adjusting to him looking like a totally different person.  But anyways.  We're cute. So far, teaching has been fun.  Stressful, for sure.  When I decided to b