It’s that time of year again, when flocks of undergraduate music majors and graduate students bid adieu to their formal music education, and embark upon careers as performers, composers, conductors, musicologists, historians, educators, authors, researchers, critics, administrators, publicists, recording engineers, managers, dramaturgs, opera and musical theatre directors.
And although the path will never be clear, and fraught with self-doubt, Joyce DiDonato offers some age-old advice: “We are all deserving of a life that overflows with immense possibility, improbable beauty and relentless truth.”
Powerful words.
Read the whole thing here.
Congratulations and good luck!
Michael Vincent