If the passage f?om graduate student to music professor can be likened to a journey, then the road is rarely an unswerving one. It is usually fraught with obstacles and turns, mostly unforeseen. Moreover, the traveler does not always arrive at the originally intended destination and, even when this goal is accomplished, it rarely seems to be by means of the planned route! This paper is a reflection on some of the twists in my own journey, some of the signposts I discovered en route, and perhaps on the modicum of prudence a seasoned traveler will eventually gain after falling into many a pothole.
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