Winter break is over, and my son went back to campus today. It’s also his 21st birthday! So he’s out of that gray area between 17 and 21, when he was an adult for some things and not others. It shouldn’t be that hard to believe. He’s 6-foot-3 and wears a size 15 shoe. ButContinue reading “A New Semester Begins”
Category Archives: College
Command Performance
This evening, my son made an audition video for the symphony orchestra at school. He had several pages of music to play for it. He had to set up his phone to record audio and video, and then play the music all in take. It included some Brahms, some Mendelssohn, and some works by aContinue reading “Command Performance”
Wordless Wednesday: Winter Concert
Steel Away
On Sunday, my son performed in his second concert of the weekend. It was his first time performing onstage with the JMU Steel Drum Band — though the instruments are more accurately called steel pans, not drums. He plays double tenor, and is already quite good, despite the fact that he had never played steelContinue reading “Steel Away”
Concert Month
I attended a concert at my son’s university last night, a student recital. The school really does have an excellent music department, though I’m afraid a lot of non-music majors and their parents don’t know it. The concert was the senior recital of a Music Composition student. These recitals are completely student-directed. He had toContinue reading “Concert Month”
How Many More?
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the shooting this week on the campus of my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Virginia. A student who was on the football team for a short time his freshman year shot and killed three students currently on the team, and injured two other students, one ofContinue reading “How Many More?”
Wordless Wednesday: JMU Robot
Score One for the English Major Mom!
As a Music Composition major, my son has been writing a piece of music this week for a composition challenge at his university. Art students supplied original artworks for inspiration, and the student composers were each given a piece of art and matched up with a performer or group of performers. My son is workingContinue reading “Score One for the English Major Mom!”
Junior Year Begins
Tonight, I keep waiting for my son to walk in and want to change the channel on the television, or pull out his partially completed Lego model and finish building it. But those things are not going to happen. Today, we helped him move into his dorm room at school. He officially begins his juniorContinue reading “Junior Year Begins”
Almost Back to School
Since we returned from our recent month-long road trip, I’ve been busy busy busy getting my son ready to go back to college. Part of that consists of reminding him repeatedly to do his laundry and start packing. He is working on the laundry; I think he has one load left to do. But I’mContinue reading “Almost Back to School”
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