Hey y'all! Over the weekend I participated in the virtual All-National Honor Ensembles (ANHE) Symphony Orchestra, and a trailblazing Texas band director gave a presentation in which she shared the following quote by Leonard Bernstein: "This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This quote really resonated with me given everything that's happened recently. In this world filled with anger, strife, and hate, music is the only language in which you can only spread love. Music transcends all the tribulations and injustices that we are faced with in this life and helps us release our soul-crushing sadness or raging anger (or whichever negative emotion we'd like to relinquish). So I will continue practicing French horn until 3 am, not just for my own enjoyment, but to honor Leonard Bernstein's quote and hopefully bring some light into the world during this time of darkness.
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