Music student podcast
Listen to a music student talk about their experience with music at CSU in this Music student podcast.
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Text of podcast:
(Soundbite of Diana singing Charles Gounond’s “Ah, Je Veux Vivre” from “Romeo et Juliette”)
ASHLEY LAUWEREINS: Diana Young-Murray is a junior at Colorado State University who loves music. Among other things, she loves to sing. Initially getting involved in high school, she now enjoys singing opera and other classical works.
DIANA YOUNG-MURRAY: Opera takes so much vocal technique and training to just do it correctly without hurting your voice. For me it is a good challenge because in opera you have to put in that focus and training to understand it and be able to sing it correctly.
LAUWEREINS: Diana originally got involved with piano at an early age, and this is what inspired her love of music. Today she still plays piano, composing her own pieces based off of her mood.
(soundbite of Diana playing her composed piece, which is untitled)
YOUNG-MURRAY: When I play stuff on the piano it’s more me just composing what’s coming out of my head at the moment. I’m normally going along with my own emotions, which is my own music therapy for myself.
LAUWEREINS: Her love of music helped Diana find music therapy, a major she is pursuing today. Diana explained that by using music she is able to help people with simple movements and movement rehabilitation.
(soundbite of metronome)
YOUNG-MURRAY: We would just work on physical rehabilitation, work on Gate which is getting a steadier walk, and we’d give them just a really strong rhythmic beat. Especially when you’re working with Gate training, it helps because you know when to place your feet down and it would be more coordinated, more together whereas if they didn’t have that beat it wouldn’t be as coordinate. So we definitely saw an improvement when music was added to their life. And some of them, they still actually listen to a metronome, just to have a solid beat whenever they’re walking. It helps them stay constant. Specifically for me I want to go into early childhood development and work with Autistic kids.
LAUWEREINS: Todd Resseguie is a music major and friend of Diana’s. He explains why music is so important to music therapy.
TODD RESSEGUIE: Well I think it’s important for all music therapists to enjoy what they’re doing, both the therapy side and the music side. From what I’ve noticed from the outside as just a music educator, if you only have passion for one part of your job then you’re not going to be successful. So the fact that she loves music and she loves singing so much she’s never going to lose that part of the job.
(soundbite of Diana playing another song she has written, again Untitled.
LAUWERIENS: Diana says while she is aiming to be a musical therapist, she still wants to be involved with a chorus in an opera company. Above everything else Diana enjoys sharing music with different people and exposing them to music they may not have been aware of before. This is Ashley Lauwereins, Colorado State University
