![]() ![]() Why is it important for women to teach music? I had never experienced that type of flood of a multitude of emotions - I knew I had to keep it going. The last movement of Yasuhide Ito's Gloriosa brought me to tears as I was playing. There was moment I was performing in the PMEA District 11 band. ![]() I wanted to know how to make music coming from a band sound beautiful. The versatility of the ensemble - performing outside in a marching setting - or in an intimate concert hall, the beauty of the flexibility of sounds always intrigued my curiosity. I wanted to teach band because of the beauty of the medium of the wind band. Making music by leading players from the podium is an entirely different experience than playing an instrument or singing. ![]() I've been told repeatedly to pick choir or band, but I knew how different performing on each instrument was a different experience. I think my biggest success as a female performer is by simply being a multi-instrumentalist. What has been your biggest success as a female performer? I attended a summer music institute at Northwestern University and I knew that majoring in music was the path I would choose, over engineering or biomed. Mom made me stick with it - and I owe her everything for pushing me through. My family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs a year later, and I almost stopped playing because my new school only offered band once a week before school, whereas in Texas I had band everyday. ![]() I sang in choirs throughout school, and picked up the clarinet for the first time as a 5th grader in Texas. When did you decide to become a musician?Īccording to my family, I was belting Mariah Carey from my carseat when I was a toddler, so I think music chose me from the start. I had a chance to speak with Laurel, and found out such amazing things about a women enveloped in music her whole life, from Mariah Carey to enveloping music into her everyday life through thick and thin! Her positivity, passion, and musicianship has shone throughout her time with Metropolitan Music Community, not only as an amazing clarinetist, but also as a conductor and director who emphasizes vocal methods to personify the music she wants to grasp from the music she is curating. Laurel Stinson has co-directed Grand Street Community Band, the second largest band at Metropolitan Music Community. ![]()
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