![]() Naturally, I agreed and it was decided that I would give a public recital, as well as a talk and a few tunes for the 3rd grade class at my old elementary school. Jeff Abke, son of my 2nd grade teacher and the gentleman heading up the Perrysburg Schools Campaign for the Arts, caught wind of this and asked if I would be willing to do some PR for the campaign. While my experience in American public schools was a classical training (I was trained as a flautist) and my career has evolved to focus primarily on traditional music, I still appreciate and give much credit to the musical education and experiences I received in school, as the principles of musicianship tend to cross cultural boundaries and the values of hard work and practice most certainly do.Īs luck would have it, I found myself in a last-minute and fortunate position to take a much needed trip back to America to visit with my family last month. The idea was to cite the influence my public school education had in supporting my long-term professional career. ‘Going home’, a tune that exists simultaneously in both the classical and piping traditions, seemed an appropriate title for this blog.Ībout six months ago, I was approached to help a campaign for the arts in my home town of Perrysburg, Ohio as someone who came through the Perrysburg School System’s music programme and went on to pursue a professional career in the arts sector. Recently, I had the opportunity to talk about my schoolboy musical roots in my American hometown as a part of a fundraiser for the arts in my community. The divide, and at times union, between my roots and life as a classical musician and my life as a piper are things I’ve considered extensively over the course of my PhD. ![]() As I was a classical musician before I was a piper, and had experience playing Dvořák’s 9th Symphony, I was initially familiar with the tune from a classical perspective but did, in time, come to know it equally as a pipe tune. ![]() This theme, while frequently thought of as a folk song, was actually borrowed from Dvořák 9 by William Arms Fisher, a pupil of Dvořák’s, who wrote the lyrics in 1922, long after the composition of the symphony in 1893. The second movement of Antonín Dvořák’s 9th Symphony will likely be more commonly known to pipers as the theme of the tune Going Home, which I’ve been called on to play at funerals on a number of occasions.
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