chicago nights

Chicago is most beautiful by night. The oppressive heat has floated away, leaving behind only the slightly sticky reminder of a hot summer day,

and you stand on the shores of Lake Michigan looking across the glimmering water at this collision of lights and concrete and life,

and marvel at the magnificence of man and technology. beautiful, for better or worse.

bridges hall, claremont colleges.

I started performing here when I was 11, and for the next seven years with the Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra.

Music is an outlet through which every feeling and emotion can be expressed distinctly, much more so than through any verbal or written form.