Thursday, 12 January 2006

The New Semester Should Be... Exciting

The Major General Music has begun the new semester, and it should prove to be exciting. First of all, there's 20 credits at stake, which is more than any sane person would take. Fortunately the Major General Music isn't sane. He takes Education classes, the regular battery of fourth semester music classes, plus middle school methods, voice lessons, AND piano lessons.

Yesterday involved getting back into a routine. The Major General Music kicked things off with his new Education Dept. class, The Exceptional Child. Although he's a little apprehensive about the field placement in the special education classroom, an open mind is most important. Chapel Choir restarted again and the new, scary consolidation of the intermediate and advanced sections of Keyboard Skills has Prof. Le on his toes trying to figure things out.

Today wasn't as great for classes. The final semester of Theory will be the hardest, studying post-tonal music, which some may argue isn't actually music. Then there's Encounter With Cultures, the pointless class required by the State of Michigan. The Phelps Scholars pretty much frightened the education majors and then everyone left because the prof. wasn't there. Then after lunch, a run back to Nykerk and a new semester of Aural Skills with arguably the craziest teacher in the department, Mr. Jimmy Leach. Then another session of Chapel Choir, dinner, and then the Major General Music went to work out and stop at the Hockey Chemist's apartment for a ticket to the Hope-Calvin game.

On his way to the Dow Center, the Major General Music encountered a sight which was a bit unexpected-one of the frat guys mooned a bunch of sorority girls from his house as they were walking down the sidewalk. Nothing shone quite as brightly in the darkness as those two pasty cheeks in the artificial light from the porch.

And then there's the most exciting news of the semester: Dr. Jeff Buettner. Alas, Dr. Brad Richmond, choral director extraordinaire of Hope College has bid everyone farewell for the semester and left for Europe with his family for a semester of gallavanting, acting like a scholar, and writing some music, too. Dr. Buettner has already demonstrated himself to be extremely energetic and ambitious with the Chapel Choir music. To the Major General Music's amusement (and somewhat unsettled feelings), a close friend excitedly told him that Dr. Buettner is a lot like the Major General Music in personality. How exciting!...

The unexpected occurance reminds me of two things at the moment: the Heywood Banks song and Deny's 'Moons over my Hammy' breakfast meal.

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