Music and Family

Music for me is everything but for my family it’s just something they can enjoy as a hobby.

My younger brother plays saxophone. He really enjoys playing and he is pretty good for his age. He started playing when he was in fifth grade. He played in area band; which was something that he did after school when he was in elementary school. When he went to middle school he started taking lessons. He is now a sophomore in high school and he plays in the school’s top band. He also played in the marching band this past season.

Also, he likes listening to the Carpenters and the Beatles from the old days. This I can’t really blame anyone because he started listening to them because I started listening to them… He also likes to listen to almost every genre of music including Korean pop-music. The only music that he doesn’t really listen to is orchestral music and hardcore rock or rap.

My mom can’t really play anything. She can play very little of piano. She’s not talented or amazing at an instrument but she has lots of friends who are professionally involved in music. She has friends who have graduated in Manhattan School of Music, Berklee School of Music, Julliard School, and friends who have studied in Germany and France. Most of her friends are either Piano majors or Orchestral Instrument majors. When I met them over the summer in Korea before my freshmen year in college they gave me advices to survive through the music school. They also have said that being a music major is just like being in medical school because you don’t really get much time to yourself. To some extent I do agree with them. Anyways, my mom like going to concerts and to musicals. Also, she likes Lady GaGa’s music and some Korean pop-music.

Now, my dad….. Honestly, I’ve only heard him listen to Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, and The Beatles. He’s really not very music related person. He doesn’t really like pop-music. I know that he played piano when he was little, but I’ve never heard him play so I don’t know if he’s good. When I was very little and when we were still in Korea, every morning he used to turn on Mozart. This is when I was like 4 or 5 years old, and what I remember is, I would get up in the morning and walk out to the living room and there would be an entire collection of LPs that my dad used to collect since he was in his teens, and he would pick one out of the collection that he has and put it on. He doesn’t do that any more because he left all of his LPs when we were moving overseas in the storage room in the basement of our hospital. Over Christmas, he made me burn CDs of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Family as a whole, we only listen to classical music when dad’s around because he doesn’t like pop music. When we are on a road-trip, without my mp3 or my iPod, I would have died of boredom because my dad doesn’t listen to music in the car. We listen to pop-music and classic both when it’s just me, my brother and my mom. My mom likes more variety genres of music than my dad does so it’s better to be in the car with her than da