Music
English Reflection Paper
Lorenzo Mendoza 3/5/13
R12
The Road to the Present All of us have that one thing that seems to take an extremely large part of our lives. Some of us resort to playing video games, sports or writing. If we’re lucky then eventually we get to work with experts and get their input to improve what we do. If we’re really lucky then we may get to indulge in our passion without direct monetary cost. If ever we are lucky enough to be able to do what we love and get paid for it, then you really know that fortune really has smiled down on you. This thing whether we realize it or not does help shape how we grow and who we end up being, or at the very least, it did in my case. This is the story of the event that started my life in music and how music made me who I am today. In November of 2009 I had just had my very first recital in The Music School of Ryan Cayabyab. It was a recital for instrumentalists, in my case it was the guitar. Typically students would just play their instrument, whereas my teacher requested that I sing while playing. After the recital my parents asked me if I would be interested in taking voice lessons. At first I was rather hesitant because I had heard of some horror stories of singers who took lessons or went to a conservatory of music and did not benefit from it due to incorrect techniques taught by the particular school. One example would be the story of some classical singers who could no longer use their head voices after training because of how they abused their voices. Eventually though I did give in to my parents suggestion of taking voice lessons there. This is when I met Malvin Macasaet, he’s a tenor (the highest voice classification for a male) who graduated from the UP Conservatory of Music. In the early days of my voice lessons it was clear that I had very little idea of what I was doing. I can tell you now that, looking back, my technique had a very, very long way to go.
Lorenzo Mendoza 3/5/13
R12
The Road to the Present All of us have that one thing that seems to take an extremely large part of our lives. Some of us resort to playing video games, sports or writing. If we’re lucky then eventually we get to work with experts and get their input to improve what we do. If we’re really lucky then we may get to indulge in our passion without direct monetary cost. If ever we are lucky enough to be able to do what we love and get paid for it, then you really know that fortune really has smiled down on you. This thing whether we realize it or not does help shape how we grow and who we end up being, or at the very least, it did in my case. This is the story of the event that started my life in music and how music made me who I am today. In November of 2009 I had just had my very first recital in The Music School of Ryan Cayabyab. It was a recital for instrumentalists, in my case it was the guitar. Typically students would just play their instrument, whereas my teacher requested that I sing while playing. After the recital my parents asked me if I would be interested in taking voice lessons. At first I was rather hesitant because I had heard of some horror stories of singers who took lessons or went to a conservatory of music and did not benefit from it due to incorrect techniques taught by the particular school. One example would be the story of some classical singers who could no longer use their head voices after training because of how they abused their voices. Eventually though I did give in to my parents suggestion of taking voice lessons there. This is when I met Malvin Macasaet, he’s a tenor (the highest voice classification for a male) who graduated from the UP Conservatory of Music. In the early days of my voice lessons it was clear that I had very little idea of what I was doing. I can tell you now that, looking back, my technique had a very, very long way to go.