Sarah: My Passion

Video: Music

Footage shows Sarah playing piano; Sarah speaking directly to the camera; Sarah in Pratt Hall music library and in a music classroom; Louise Litterick, professor of music, speaking to the camera; Sarah walking across campus.

Audio from video

Sarah:

“Music has always been part of my life. My mother started me playing on the violin when I was around seven, so that was my first instrument. And then I started to play the piano when I was eleven. When I came to Mount Holyoke, I hadn’t thought about taking a music major because I thought I would just want to focus on one subject. and I found that what I loved best was music, early music to be precise, from say the fifteenth or sixteenth century and before that. Coming to Mount Holyoke, I was really excited because there’s an early music department. This was something that really drew me to a small liberal arts college like this because you really don’t get the program in many other places.”

Professor of Music Louise Litterick:

“Sarah is wonderful. And she represents, I think, a lot of the best of what we have at Mount Holyoke. In the first place, Mount Holyoke has a large international population of students and Sarah has dual citizenship—Chinese and South African—and came to us via many years in England, so she’s had a lot of interesting background and also a lot of music training in other countries which she brings to her courses and to her interests. And that’s really fascinating.”

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