A couple of months ago, I took my 17-calendar year-aged daughter, Ariana, an achieved viola player, to the East Coastline to audition at leading-tier new music conservatories, The auditions are, of course, vital – exactly where you go to college influences your total daily life. At the to start with audition, ready for her transform, I questioned Ariana if she was anxious. “No, mommy, I’m so fired up to play for them!” She was pleased, like Cinderella heading to the ball.

It felt to me like the close of a prolonged road, and the start of a new a person. When Ariana and her brother Zak have been little, I instantly grew to become a solitary mom. I thought that I would by no means be able to send out them to university with out scholarships. So I groomed them in a little something that, as a symphonic violinist, I … Read more