Personal Narrative: Mozart Is Boring

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Mozart is Boring
There was a time when I would look at someone, and not be able to tell whether I found them pretty or not. Details, such as appearance, didn’t matter. No one looked pretty or ugly, they all looked the same. The only thing that mattered was how they treated me. But, as I grew older, I noticed that in the children’s and teen movies I watched commonly used young, attractive, blonde girls as their main antagonist, leaving this concept in my mind that all blonde girls are mean. Even to this day, when I see a “pretty” blonde girl, I create a negative image of her before I even get the chance to meet her. We all have misconceptions that we have created in our minds, whether it be about other people, other cultures, or places.
In the world of young musicians, I have noticed that a recurring belief is that classical music is boring. With pianists, for example, there are few willing to train classically when they can easily learn a catchy pop tune off of Youtube.
There was a time when I used to think that classical music is boring. As a college student studying classical music now, I’m bit embarrassed to admit that, but as a curious 10-year-old who had just discovered mainstream music for the first time, the piano pieces I was learning quickly faded into last year’s news. My music world, limited to only Christian music and classical …show more content…

A pint-sized, cheerful, and powerful Filipino woman who lives on the east coast named Casmelyn took me under her wing. She was, up until that point, one of the most captivating people and musicians I had ever met. The first piece she gave me was Mozart’s “Fantasy in D Minor”, and immediately, I knew was not like your standard Mozart sounding piece. No, it was very romantic, and Beethoven-like. It was moving, mournful, and dramatic with three very long runs, two contrasting sections, and flashy dynamics. She nearly shattered my idea of Mozart being boring.

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