For the Re-Purposing Project, we were instructed to take an argument we'd written for a previous class, and extend that argument, while presenting it to a new audience. I chose to work with a piece I'd written for my Business in Music class, a course I took the winter semester of my freshman year, to help discover if a career in performing arts administration would be a good path for me. The argument was how having a portfolio career (a career made up of many smaller jobs all with the same theme) is vital for a musician. I went on to create a memoir, talking about experiences I've had with music, and how they each played a key role in shaping my career with music. This branched out, as my memoir became more and more personal with each passing chapter, and it spun into a story about my teachers, my friends, and their contributions to my career--both positive and negative. I'm really proud of this piece, but I'm not yet ready to publish it. There are too many details I find simply too personal and too annoying for everyone to see, and I hope to streamline the thesis of this memoir a bit more. But here is the first chapter, the story of how I was first introduced to music, and the amazing relationship I formed with my piano teacher, Peggy Hegel. Explore these tabs to see each part of this project.