and this shall be for music…

What comes to mind when I say the word “music?” The loud reggaeton blasting from cars at a Walmart parking lot? The Barry Manilow that deters teens from loitering in the stores? Circle-time? Crud from the elevator speakers?

To me, music is the heart-blood of my life – I myself am educated in music since elementary school, in a special education facility called the Forum School, which is located in North Jersey, in which I really missed since my move to Florida a decade ago. I used to be a clarinetist in the school band, a violist and cellist in the school orchestra, and an alto in the school choir. I watched arts programs on Ovation TV when I was in fifth grade, and I can even recognize the name of Howard Goodall, a British musicologist, composer, and broadcaster starting at that time, and that man is my role model since he is an avid music advocate. I have an unusual passion for classical music starting at that time too, when myriad other preteens and teens listen to pop and rock! Now that I’m majoring  in the medical field as biller and coder (just to have some job security), I am blogging about music, for now.

The gist of the blog is to give my personal insight on various issues and stuff regarding the broad subject of music – from new developments in the industry, artists’ ongoings in life, to music education. So, if you’re going to find this blog very interesting, comment me.

(The above video is of the CCSA Junior Chorus singing Mark Patterson’s This Shall Be For Music, which is one of my favorite choral works. How appropriate.)