Dear Axwell and Vocalisters:
After 44 years as a teacher and musician (it took me 20 of those years for me to consider myself a musician) I feel well paid and I think I have been a good servant to the art of music.
The other night my wife and I awoke to a new recording of an orchestral work that was not identified clearly when our clock radio came on because of a mis-setting. We lay there quietly listening each not knowing the other was awake. Finally one of us exclaimed about the wonder of the work we were hearing and the other said "I did not know you were awake". It is a magic thing that music can speak so directly and deeply and cannot be explained with words.
So, I, and all of you, serve this art We become its mentors and its masters while we remain its servants and its soul. More money would be nice but we are, in my opinion, well paid.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice, Pedagogy School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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