Dear Mr. Taylor,<\/p>\n
I wanted to say thank you for your thoughtful letters and handling of this difficult situation. I am very disappointed that the school year had to end like this and was really looking forward to a great spring at T-P; however, I do understand that this is a very serious, and no doubt unique, situation for you and the School. I am thankful for my time at T-P and all the amazing friends and connections I made in these two years \u2014 both with fellow students and faculty members.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed being able to share some of my music at T-P and while I regret that I will not be able to perform any of my music at T-P again, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of my most recent works with you. I was lucky to meet with alum Gedney Webb \u201986 for the SIP with Distinction Program. We had a great, lengthy conversation about music and he gave me some valuable advice about software instruments and writing orchestral music, which I have started to dive into these last two weeks while in quarantine. The two pieces<\/a> I have attached to this email are the result of this new knowledge.<\/p>\n The first one, entitled Sunrise<\/em>, is inspired by the amazing sunrises at T-P. I\u2019ve always enjoyed the walk from Cluett down to the dining hall with the sun getting up behind me. This year I was on the other side of the building, so I could enjoy the sunsets after dinner in the fall. I might have to write a piece about that as well. The second piece is called Uncertain Times<\/em>. It reflects my thoughts and feelings during this time of uncertainty. Writing this music has helped me calm down when I was really nervous or anxious about not knowing what news the next day might bring. I thought it might help some people on campus as well.<\/p>\n I have not shared these pieces with Mr. Templeton yet. In case he is on campus at the moment, maybe you could share them with him with greetings from me.<\/p>\n Once again, thank you for everything these last two years. I\u2019m looking forward to a new experience this Spring Term and hopefully seeing you soon for graduation!<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Sam Fechner \u201920<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Mr. Taylor, I wanted to say thank you for your thoughtful letters and handling of this difficult situation. I am very disappointed that the school year had to end like this and was really looking forward to a great spring at T-P; however, I do understand that this is a very serious, and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2020"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"SAM FECHNER \u201920","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}