Business NH Magazine recently partnered with the Manchester Community Music School in Manchester to host a competition to highlight the powerful effect of music on one's life, career, aspirations, love or success. Below is our second-prize winner. Meet Steven Scott as he discusses the impact of music on his life.
Thirty-six years ago, I was a geeky 14 year-old at Contoocook Valley Regional High School in Peterborough. That year, we had an exchange concert between our high school, ConVal, and Kearsarge Regional, which is located in New London.
I was a tenor in the chorus at the time. When we met our music mates from Kearsarge, (they visited us in Peterborough first), I met a sophomore (older woman!) soprano that I thought was the cutest girl I'd ever seen. She and I became friends, and we corresponded and visited one another on occasion. I saw her at All State Festivals in which she and I both participated, and as it happens in life, I went one way, off to college and a career, and she went another, off to join the U.S. Air Force in Michigan and Alaska.
But I thought of that older woman often, and I called her every once in a while when she was stationed in Anchorage. My heart would skip a beat, just hearing her voice through the three second delay that telephones had back then when calling such a distance.
And 14 years after that exchange concert, she and I got married. Four years later, we had a little girl. Now, our 18-year-old daughter is a singer and is now studying musical theatre at Suffolk University in Boston. She's in Suffolk's version of "Glee" and she couldn't be happier. So....two of the most important persons in my life are the result of music, plain and simple. That's why, to me, Life is always Musical.
Steven S. Scott
The Provident Bank
21 Daniel Street
PO Box 431
Portsmouth, NH 03801
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