的序曲
Covenant’s chapel often appears to be empty. At mid-morning, it fills up for an hour
with students coming to chapel, but before then, it seems to be only me, and my footsteps
squeaking down the stairs sound deafening. 的 hushed atmosphere changes, though,
when I push through the lower level door into the music department.
A rush of warm air hits my face as I hear a class going on in CL122. 我花了很长时间
way around to where my clarinet is stored as I listen to the music played through
speakers spaced evenly around the hallway. It’s a different genre every day: sometimes
opera, sometimes pop, or jazz, 或者巴洛克交响乐. 的 tune, whatever it is that day, often mixes oddly with the
a的声音 pianist’s practice drifting out of an office to my right. 我微笑着看着人们做着什么
家庭作业 hallways as I make my way through this musical place that has become home.
When I was first considering coming to Covenant, all I knew was that Covenant didn’t
have a band like the one I had been a part of since fifth grade—they had an orchestra.
I couldn’t help but wonder: could this place measure up to the community I had found
在高中乐队? I auditioned on my clarinet for a music scholarship and decided
to attend Covenant, but I had no idea that my musical interest, or really my side
hobby, would be what brought me my lifelong friendships in college.
寻求社区
After I made the decision to come to Covenant, I did miss band intensely. 一个大学
orchestra, though fun, just doesn’t have the utter chaos of a high school band I had
长大去爱. However, as I think back on my time here, homesickness for my high
school’s music program doesn’t reflect my college experience well at all. 这是一个
更准确的图片:
- I remember how new friends were genuinely excited that we would be in Chamber Singers
在一起. To be clear, they were upperclassmen, I was a freshman, and we’d only known
each other for approximately eight days, yet they were thrilled to get to sing with
me.
- I remember exchanging names with the music department work-study students over and
over until we finally remembered.
- I remember leaving choir one day to cry and a friend of mine following me out and
为我祈祷.
- I remember discovering a joy in singing that I had never known before.
回家
I’m not a music major, or even a minor, which is why I refer to music as an interest
或爱好. I get asked if I’m a music major a lot because between my two ensembles
and the work that goes into them, I sometimes feel like I live on the chapel’s first
地板上. But that’s the cool thing about the music department: most of my fellow musicians
aren’t music majors either, and it doesn’t matter. This department has embraced and
adopted us, and we have become family. I love going down to practice because I know
that I’ll get to see at least one friend on the way, often more.
In orchestra and other musical productions, I’m with some very talented people. We
have a fantastic music program here at Covenant; however, the skill of my peers isn’t
the reason I’m still playing and singing. Down at the bottom of the chapel, surrounded
by musicians giving glory to God, I have found my family.
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