January 5, 2005

advice to a young musician (cont.)

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Pro­bably the nicest thing that hap­pe­ned on gaping­void in the last wee while (as far as I’m con­cer­ned, any­way) was when a cer­tain Cle­men­tine asked me (and any­body else rea­ding this blog) for any advice on offer re. what to do about her remarkably-talented-musician son’s college plans.
Well, I for one was blown away by both the quan­tity and the qua­lity of the advice offe­red up by y’all. I had never come across Cle­men­tine before, nor do I know her or her son, but… it was a good thing.
It’s hard to know what to do when you’re that young and talen­ted. The world really doesn’t give you a lot of road­maps to go by for that stage of life. And I was quite touched, frankly, that so many of my rea­ders would take the time to put some thought into it.
Any­way, I hope you’ll go visit the blog entry (here it is again) and add any con­tri­bu­tions that you can, if you haven’t already. Thanks.

2 Responses to “advice to a young musician (cont.)”

  1. Nia says:
    January 5, 2005 at 2:37 pm

    well, if you ask so nicely, here

  2. Nancy says:
    January 5, 2005 at 3:32 pm

    I have three sons 22, 20, 17; all three awar­ded free rides to good ol’ State U. Real high num­bers on SAT sco­res. All artists outside their aca­de­mic fields– in their own right not neces­sa­rily in the art fields: sports, com­pu­ter, music.
    C’tines son is fif­teen. There’s still a bunch– a whole bunch– of chan­ging and rea­rran­ging that will hap­pen. Believe me. You have time yet. Let him play all the pos­si­bi­li­ties in scho­larship, trade skills, and art. Don’t limit your­self (sheesh, in some cases-I’d say don’t ever plan) till you abso­lu­tely have to. I’d even recom­mend you go out and buy him a wel­der. You’d be amazed.