great idea!
I'm Mom to Fiddlekid (Junior D) who's considering violin performance and/or double degree (humanities? language? journalism?). At least that's today's plan...tomorrow, who knows? My hunch is that she will create some way to tie all her various interests together, though I have no idea what form that will take.
She is taking lessons from a really wonderful teacher to whom we make a twice-monthly pilgrimage of 280 miles rountrip. We are currently searching for a better instrument, plotting out audition schedules for next summer's music programs (trying to avoid conflicts with SATs and her Youth Orchestra concert schedule), starting to put together the preliminary college list -- and trying to figure out how to pay for it all
I did 12 years of piano lessons back in the stone age (with very little to show for it in terms of performance ability). H has no musical background whatsoever, although being Australian he does have a certain fondness for the digeridoo....