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Musical Interlude
I’ll get back to the moon in my next post. I have to share this.
I teach high school drafting classes and I sometimes play music while the students are drawing. I have a set of four CDs of Disney music and for the last couple years I have played one of those on Fridays. Yesterday one of my students asked to borrow one of the discs because she likes a particular song on it.
While we were looking for which disc has that song she commented on how listening to Disney reminds her of childhood. Well, that’s part of the reason I play those songs. (They’re also safer than some of the music I would listen to on my own and a break from the classical music I often play in class.)
Then she said [and I refrained from laughing with difficulty], “I like the old songs better than the stuff most kids listen to today. You know, from the nineties.”
Ah, the perspective of youth….
Posted on April 7th, 2007 3 comments3 responses to “Musical Interlude”
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nothing lieka teenager to make you feel like you were born in the early cretaceous, huh?
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One of my students a few months ago said, “Did you know there are still people alive who were alive in the eighties?!”
Perspective of youth indeed.:)
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It’s like the first time you hear yourself say “college kid” or the first time one of your students says that “old school” music is three or four years old. Goodness.
And, apropos of nothing–when I went to France in 2004, everyone called me “mademoiselle.” This time, just a few weeks ago, I was “madame.” Good Lord–did I age that much in less than three years? I need to find some Botox.
And I’ve edited any thoughts about playing Disney music in class. Product placement, Tim? Ha ha.
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