Musicians (Young)

These are a couple of young musicians from the high school that I teach at. I love this picture, one in that it is a decent picture, and two in that the subjects are kids that have inspired me lately. The guitarist here gave his senior project speech to me and a couple others, on his hopes to become a composer and not lose his sense of being an artist. After the speech he brought me a book by Wagner that I am drudging through. Very high reading. Much of which I studied at UW. I am trying to summon my biggest brain to correlate the complexities, but I am out of practice. What struck me with this moment in life is that I am all of sudden Blake's "Experience" to this young man's "Innocence". The second young man is someone who played base for the first time in a church band that I was the regular bass player. When he played for the first time there, I was struck in that he found a way to interpret a song that I hadn't thought of. I was humbled. He was about 12 or 13. (I am quite honestly a pretty poor musician), but none the less, I was impressed with this young person years ago. Then lately I witnessed him play at a live performance at Relay for Life, and was blown away again. He is quite an amazing bass player. I am not surprised in his ability, only that he chose to stay with the base...which is quite flattering, in that I love the bass.