That’s What I Want to Do More Than Anything!
Dylan’s meeting with the Digital Musicianship professor was brief.
“Basically he asked if I knew what music was,” Dylan told me later. “And I said yeah, and he said I could take the class.”
“Well that sounds easy,” I said.
“It was! And this is even better than I thought!” Dylan said. “After I take this class, I’m eligible to take the best class on campus and I didn’t even know it existed!”
“What class is that?”
“Music Composition for Film,” he said. “And that’s what I want to do more than anything!” Dylan has said for years that if he can’t be a world-famous singer, he wants to write music for movies. He’d be phenomenal at that, in fact.
I wondered why I remembered seeing the class as an option, sometime long ago…. So I looked it up, and finally found it in an unlikely place.
Music Composition for Film is offered as part of the Commercial Music program – the same program from which Dylan was rejected about a year ago.
He was rejected because he sang too well, because he was classically trained. And the professor in charge of the classical performance major said, generally, You can’t do what you want to do; you should do what I want you to do, because you’re a really good classical singer.
This was our first hint that Dylan wasn’t going to get a perfect education in the School of Music. And he has, since transferred out of the school altogether, and taken up Music Business.
But Dylan can hardly wait to take the music composition for film class – and then, hopefully, he’ll be able to find an internship in the same field.
So, after nearly a full month of trying to register him for classes, Dylan’s schedule is – hopefully finally – set for the spring semester.