I just started watching Glee and see who I really wanted to be in high school. Yes, I was in choir and led the gymnastics team but if we had such a club, if I had the guts I’d have been in it.
Not that I’m competitive, more of a team-builder but they have to be off the charts and so talented because they’re tv professionals.
The words to all the songs are familiar to me, like family, well, not. When I hear an intro I know from my great prof in American Musical History what song it pairs with. Please do Someone To Watch Over Me.
Ballet, violin, piano, guitar, choir. Did they help in my adult life? YEA! I grew up when the arts were there in public school and am still in touch with my grade school music teacher where we sang The Happy Wanderer.
Another teacher who is gone now called me in after school (first and only time in my life) and asked why I didn’t audition for solos. She tested me, told me I have perfect pitch and gave me the lead on Bridge Over Troubled Waters.
And my violin teacher needs her space here, she took me on at age 6, my father is a violinist. So do my guitar teachers, a Mormon then a drummer. Yeah, I took that up at age 50. But even after not picking it up in 18 months I can lay in bed and not look at it and have lyrics bring the music up and I just make up the chords.
There’s no talent talking here, just that if I would have had a Glee Club in high school my voice may have been heard. But then I wouldn’t have had my career or met my husband or gotten our dog. We make choices.
Here’s to my, our (husband is physics/software) fellow geeks everywhere! I’m with you, always. Dee
Cooking with Dee 