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Wow, I'm truly impressed! Organic chemistry was my own personal Waterloo...

Now physics was another matter, I LOVED my physics classes and thought about majoring in it (but too much chemistry in our curriculum, even for physics majors!)

Chemistry, very interesting indeed, as well as physics. In middle school, I took several science classes, two of those classes being chemistry and physics. (The others being: General science, Geographical science, ie learning how rivers and lakes form, how mountains form, etc., and Marine Biology). I loved them all but chemistry was my favriote, followed by physics. Very interesting. I am currently taking Food sceince now in High School and we are currently learning chemical reactions in foods. I love revisiting the periodic table of elements and makeing chemical reactions, etc.


Now, as for what I wish, I wish to be a concert pianist and composer.

My fantasy career has always been an orchestra conductor!


Nina

I hope to one day be able to know enough about music, and playing the piano to be able to teach music lessons, and generate an added income from it. I would also like to of course be an accomplished pianist also with hard work and diligence. I think with my current teacher it will be very possible for me to fulfill this dream. I went from a teacher who gave half hour lessons and did not teach me the basics like scales, arpeggios, piano language, and stressing piano technique, to a teacher who gives an hour and a half lessons every week, for less money then my first teacher, who has a $33,000.00 Steinway Grand Piano that I have my music lessons on, and who is teaching me everything that she learned as a graduate from a music conservatory. There sure is a big difference in teachers out there, and if you have nothing to compare them to, you can unfortunately be mislead sometimes by someone who really is only interested in benefiting her own self, and not in really teaching her students how to play properly. It has been so much work for me to learn how to discipline myself to sit down at the piano everyday and practice the proper way, and so I hope that someday it will all pay off for me in the ways I have mentioned.
Interesting question Amy, and I am glad you asked it on the forum.
Regards:
Allen

haha that's something I always wanted to do as well... but I never considered this as a serious possibility because I guess a conductor has to have a certain level of musical knowledge and inclination in order to gain the respect of the players in his orchestra... nevertheless I enjoy conducting with recordings... and conducting my choir occasionally...

Another thing that I would really love to do is compose music and go around the country having major groups debut it. I would love to conduct them with the pieces that I write.

I would like to be a concert pianist to make ordinary people love and enjoy classical music (because i'm very, very annoyed at all the people in my school who do not CARE about classical music).

Yeah, I would like to conduct, but I don't know how to get started or anything. It sounds interesting.

I also wish I had bigger hands, lol!

In many cases, it's not size, but flexibility. Granted, if you only have an octave or a ninth, you should stay away from Franck and Scriabin, but for the most part good technique isn't heavily dependent on hand size. My hands can comfortably hit an 11th, but the size makes it difficult to play Bach, Mozart, and Haydn articulately.

Ok, first the chemistry stuff. I freely admit that chemistry provided me with one of the most enjoyable meals I ever experienced. After completing the required 2 semesters of General Chemistry in college, I happily used my chem book and notes as fuel for the grill...

As for my wish, there are several. First, I want to have a decent repertoire that I can perform from memory. And I want to play it well enough not to embarrass myself in public.

Second, I want to compose something that is enjoyable to hear and perform. I've got some ideas, but no where near the ability yet to translate those ideas onto paper.

And lastly, I want my composition to fit in with and measure up to the classical repertoire I'm working toward. This will be the hardest "wish" to accomplish without a doubt.

Regards,
Dan

wish i had 44 fingers on each hand... and maybe an extra two or three to flip pages...

hahaha Magnezium!!

imagine trying to sight read if music were written for 8 or 10 fingers on EACH hand, let alone 44. I don't think so.

I think that would require a rather large brain which would make the head big and heavy and we would probably have constant back aches and what all. In fact with such a large, heavy head we might not be able to stand up and would never be able to play the piano at all. OH NO!

haha!!! I never thought about the sight-reading problem or the big brain!! haha... well... it was just a wish... there are probably a zillion more advantages to having 10 fingers as opposed to 88...