My Music

For most of my life I have gone to a music program that is free. This organization is called The Peoples Music School. People are able to enter this school at age 5 and goes onto the age 18. This program runs during the school year it starts two weeks after students start school in September and finishes about a month before school finishes. In this school you get the opportunity to learn about music history, how to read it, how to play an instrument and you develop a musical ear. The first instrument that I learned how to play was the piano and I have played it for a long time. About two years ago or so I changed instruments, switching from piano to harp and now I am playing the harp which I enjoy. A mandatory thing in this school is theory (which is learning about music), currently I am in theory I, but I will soon be going into theory J. Theory starts from basic to more complex and there is only theory up to K. Another mandatory thing that we have to perform in front if an audience to show our knowledge of our instrument and we make a fundraiser that day for the school. There is a performance called juries, where we perform a warm up and a pieces that we learned. Perform them in front of our teacher and a couple other teachers. The purpose of this is to get evaluated from teachers that don't spend time with you and can see how you have grown. Other performances that we do is Performathon, the Spring concert and the Winter concert. In these concerts we perform in front of the whole school including parents and family. In Performathon I sing because I am taking voice lessons and I play the harp. I am also part of an assemble witch is choir because it's mandatory and we sing for the Spring concert. Right now the program is about to end so this Saturday is the Spring concert and I will be singing in the choir as the opening. I have a fun experience learning and playing my instrument.