-: So for someone who's interested in composition,
I would really encourage them to just listen
to a lot of different music, even things
that you don't like, and try to analyze
why you don't like them and try
to just learn more about your own preferences,
and watch yourself grow in your own output.
And you know, just never give up doing it,
and know that it's okay to take some time away.
When I graduated with my master's here,
I actually took the whole summer off of composing.
I didn't pick it up again until September of that year,
and then when I did start writing again,
I wrote one of my favorite pieces.
So it just goes to show that taking time away
can really be helpful.
Well, I think the first step would be to make sure
that you really have an idea that you
feel really passionate about, because it's gonna
take a lot of work to just get things off the ground.
So many meetings you have to take
and so many applications that you
have to fill out for grants and things like that,
so make sure that there's a project
that you really feel passionately about,
and then just try and get as much help as you can.
I mean, without the help of Temple,
it would have taken me many more years, I think,
just to get the project off the ground,
but being able to use infrastructure
that was already in place and just use it in a new way
was something that really made the camp
more beneficial for the students in the end,
but also facilitated it happening
in a much more quicker and organized fashion.