Wow! Today, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 I was truly surprised at how much I learned at my first cello lesson of the month. I thought that it was amazing how I took a huge step from the beginning of my Suzuki lesson book to pieces by Mozart, Vivaldi, and Bach. I can say that I've encroached my limit of playing. This was possible just by practicing at least two hours a day. Not only was this a huge accomplishment for my music but this was a bigger accomplishment for me being able to manage my time so much better than before. I know that there are 24 hours in a day; six hours spent in school and the rest of the day would be spent studying for classes. But I knew what I wanted to do with the cello. I knew how far I wanted to go with it. So it forced me in a good way to find a way to take out at least two hours out of my schedule and practice for that time. I've gotten so much better at the cello ever since I played it in the fifth grade. However during that time, I hated the cello. I continued getting irritated because it was such a bigger instrument than what I expected. I sometimes thought it was bigger than me. I initially wanted to play the violin but there weren't any more left so I took the cello. I hated it so bad that when it got to our spring concert, I sounded horrible, I almost began to cry on stage because I was so angry. But now at age 17, I was eager to get back to playing again. After I've seen movies like
"August Rush" and
"The Soloist", I couldn't wait to get back to playing. I really wanted to play more than ever when I first heard a very famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing J.S. Bach's
Cello Suite No.1. The music made me want to just start taking cello lessons and that's exactly what I did. I went on and pursued the goal. I was able to get lessons from a cellist who played with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) as well as the University of Maryland Philharmonic. Classical music has also been my huge motivation. It served as a guidance. But most importantly it was my way to escape the madness in reality. I never sleep without it. I remember my parents telling me how I fell in love with classical music. I was about one years old at the time and my parents purchased two tickets to see the Morgan State University Choir perform with BSO. But at the time it was recommended that no one under the age of six be allowed in but there was no one to watch me. So they had me in the back of the massive auditorium. When that first note was played from every section of the passionate group of musicians, it was a tantamount of beauty traveling through my ears. It was so amazing that I went right to sleep. It was like classical music was the antidote for everything when it came to a point where I was crying my heart heart out because I didn't want to go to sleep. So that's how I developed a keen sense of hearing when it came to performing music. Nowadays I would go to a concert and when I get ready to play, I never have my sheet music on my stand because I was able to memorize the pieces before the concert. I'm gad I went back to the cello. I'm playing pieces I've never played before and it's a great way to expand my mind even more among the most versatile composer in the world. And I know for a fact that some day in the next generation, I'll surely be recognized as one of the best composer in the world next to Beethoven and Bach.
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