So to explain a bit more about myself, I am currently a junior at Wayne State studying instrumental music education. I would really like to go to graduate school to continue on with my studies, if I can find a way (financially) to do so. I am presently caught between wanting to study orchestral conducting or music history. I find both subjects entirely interesting and every day I find myself going back and forth between which one I truely enjoy more. I've got only a couple more years to make a decision (graduating a year later than the average person; however, not uncommon amongst music majors).
If I choose to study music history, I've been thinking that I would really like to delve into French musical impressionism of the late 19th and early 20th century, studying composers such as Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, and the cultural influences surrounding that time.
If I choose to study orchestral conducting, I would, obviously, like to take on an orchestra (of my own). This would mean that I will have to be beyond amazing at conducting and that I would have to be able to bring new and fresh ideas to the stand. I will have to be so unique and talented at what I do in order to get noticed. It's kind of scary whenever I think about it. But I also get excited too.
Either way, when/if I get a graduate degree, I would really like to teach at the collegiate level. I really enjoy being in an academic atmosphere and I can't see myself anywhere else in place of that (unless I am teaching and doing something else). I feel at home in school. I realize most people feel the complete opposite of that and probably find me incredibly insane, but it's true. I may get frustrated when I recognize teachers being unfair or uncaring towards students or when students disrespect teachers, but all in all, teaching children, teenagers, or adults in one way or another is my calling. I can feel it. I can hear it.
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Shakespeare's Hamlet
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