Master of Music

Yesterday David graduated from Brigham Young University with a Masters Degree in Music Composition. Today was the graduation ceremony from the College of Fine Arts and Department of Music. I am so proud of him and his accomplishments. He has worked so hard. I have been especially impressed with the fact that he has managed to spend quality and quantity time with our family while pursuing his studies.

He was not very enthusiastic about the fact that the graduation color for music (tassel and hood) is pink. (That's actually funny since he loves to wear his pink button down shirt that I think looks very 80's.)

David's thesis looks like reformed Egyptian to me. It's a 12 minute piece for a 16-voice choral chamber and explores all the sounds you can make with the human voice, without using words. It also incorporates some electronic music. Pretty amazing.

The kids also got into the graduation spirit. (Thanks to Grammy and Grandad for coming to both graduations. I could not have handled the kids without their help.)

I made David this awesome cookie-shaped musical note. Yep, I'm quite the cook. It looked awesome while still in dough. I did salvage it somewhat by cutting a musical note out of the fiasco and covering it with chocolate.

I also made us all matching BYU pajama pants as David's graduation present.