Spent a few moments online today looking at Crescendo, the online magazine for all things Interlochen: Students, Alumni, Motifs, Honors, Byron Hanson's excerpts from the Archives! What a marvelous experience it was for me as a teacher, a mentor, an employee, and an emerging artist!
Perhaps I was never able to achieve the "real world" artistry of a Linda Hunt, or even a Richard Brooks -- but I was still able to set my own artistic course, achieve where and when I could, and help others to do the same. I did a lot of "acting" after my time teaching (and learning) at IAA -- and won some subsequent honors in teaching, scholarship, and even in the arts. But for me as a person -- success was never to be measured in awards or honors!
Success is living an artistic life: full of wonder, and love, and value! And that I have done. Interlochen, its brilliant students, the engaging and talented colleagues, the fondest memories of success and of failure -- always cleanse and sharpen my thoughts about everything I do now. I am no prisoner of "nostalgia;" I am a "creature of the future." What is tomorrow's gambit? What shall we do -- when we grow up?
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