During the summer break away from UWM, I've had a lot of time to think about things. I'm always thinking about how things could be better in the music world, whether I have control over it or not (usually I don't). But as the summer has now ended and a new school year has began, I've been think about something that I know I can control, but I can always hope for.
I like to think of an orchestra as a team. All of the members are working together to achieve a smilier goal. Isn't that what a team is? We may not have the same goal as, say, a football team, but there is a goal, nonetheless. Our goal is to entertain an audience and take them on a musical journey, usually achieved by a highly skilled level of performance. A football team entertains its audience as well, but they our to win the game against another team. So yes, a football team needs to be competitive, but they're so great at working as a team. They are so great at setting aside their differences and doing their part, however great or terrible it is, to achieve the goal. Theres also great leadership, not only from the coaches, but from the quarterback, or from the defense captain. The teams have huddles before most plays, and have game plans. There is so much great support from their teammates, such as the good vibes given to the kicker to make that field goal, and a good pat on the back and a smile after a mistake is made (well, some of the time, anyways). Yes, a football team is really like a team...they work together respectfully, whether they really like each other or not. You can just tell by how much they celebrate when a player scores a touchdown. You see how many players come to congratulate them? Wouldn't be great if an orchestra functioned a little more like a team? I think it would be cool if there was like a "huddle" by sections before some rehearsals, where the principal could share thoughts to make the section sound better, while the section members listen and even throw in pointers of their own. I wish the excitement of playing music would be evident, and the support of other musicians, through the bad times and the good, would be more present. I wish the team spirit was there, and the fact that we're playing music together, just as a football team plays football, and people who play together should have fun. Since we're a team, we should also work together to make playing more enjoyable and make our goal more achievable. It's hard though, with music. We spend so much of our time and put so much of our energy into making ourselves competitive in the business to get the good chairs and the good jobs, but we seem to focus so little on working with others, which is the bulk of our time as musicians. Because of this, we still want to compete long after the competition (a.k.a. the audition) is over, whether it's a competition by how much you know, or a question of who's "right". It's sad. There's so much competition amongst teammates in the orchestra. We're so bent on trying to be smarter and better than the person we sit next to, and thus we're more like enemies than teammates. It doesn't really matter how much more skilled we are over others, or how much we know more than others. What does matter is knowing how to do your part and apply your knowledge to work together. There's so many differing opinions on what's right that one has to keep an open mind as a musician. I just think it's too bad that there's so much conflict amongst musicians. I'm particularly thinking of those stories of professional musicians in world-class orchestra hating the people they sit next to, all because of a single suggestion one made to the other. That is ridiculous! Why do music if you are so serious about it that you seem to hate it? The competition is in the audition and nowhere else. And you know what? The audience doesn't care who's better than the other, or how much one musician knows about the other. All they want is great music. The audience is the most important part of our existence as musicians. They're the primary reason music exists as a profession. Do it for them. I know that I went into music because I enjoy doing it. Although it is also work to me, I'll never forget how much I enjoy it.
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