January 10, 2008
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Back in School
Something happened last night in my new winter-quarter class at CSULA that doesn’t often happen to me: I was inspired.
Now, that might sound hokey, or something–but it’s true. I was really burned out on arranging after the gig I did for Concordia. It seemed like the plates were never going to stop spinning during that time and the busyness of life wore me out. I did school last quarter, but my heart really wasn’t in it. Ironically, it was the film scoring class. FILM SCORING! I MEAN–this is what I walked into my undergraduate degree saying I was going to do forever…and I went through the motions in the class.
But not last night.
Not now. And God bless my professor–she is amazing. I love her classes (took two last year also). The class we had last night absolutely cemented some things in my mind–things I had wondered about before, but was never certain about. I’m SO looking forward to this course. The real irony about all of this is that I almost didn’t go back to school this quarter (for reasons that are not pertinent). I thought, “I’ll go the first time and see what this class is like–and see if it’s worth going to. Otherwise, I’ll just go next quarter.” I think it’s obvious how that turned out.
This quarter I have to interview 3 successful people in the industry that are doing something similar to what I’m doing. I’ll be pursuing Steve Bartek (Danny Elfman’s orchestrator), Hans Zimmer, and an orchestrator’s agent for starters. John Williams was my first choice, but he’s a little busy…
I’m starting to feel it–this year is going to be my year.
More life changes coming soon…
Comments (6)
This is supposed to be the Summer of Dan!
*giving you a block of cheese to eat*
Its true teachers can make a BIG difference in the class! Good for you Daniel!!
Hope you get the people you want to interview . . .
Ooooh, if you get to interview Hans Zimmer, tell him he’s awesome for letting his music be played at Dodger games!! It’s super cool to be watching the game then have The Rock play. Totally pumps me up! Which is helpful since I care so little about baseball…
Ya…it’s going to be a good year, no, GREAT year!!!!!!
You should totally listen to lots of Zimmer and Elfman before doing that so you can sound all intelligent about the music and such. I doubt you’ll have a problem with that, but if you need some scores, I’ve got plenty.