But at Columbia, she realized that while she was talented and hardworking, she was far from a spectacular violinist. Determined to leave her Appalachian upbringing behind, she applied to and was accepted at Columbia. Hindman recalls, "There was something going on in the way people would look at me when I played the violin, that I could tell even as a kid, it made them think of me as more serious." Being a classical musician also allowed her to escape the suffocating confines of gender norms-she was a talented violinist, not a talented girl.
![drake pound cake full song drake pound cake full song](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9V1FzsZ_vP0/hqdefault.jpg)
Playing the violin professionally had been Hindman's dream since she was a child growing up in a small West Virginia town, as her devotion to the instrument earned her peers' awe and adults' respect. "From the very beginning of working with that group, I knew that there was a story," Hindman says in a call to her home in Kentucky, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University. The music the audience hears is coming from a hidden CD player hooked up to the speakers. Hindman and the other musicians perform shows across America in performance halls, malls and at fairs, but they're part of a bizarre deception: The musicians are barely making sounds with their instruments. In her debut, Hindman recounts the nearly four years she spent as a violinist in an ensemble led by an eccentric man whom she refers to only as the Composer.
![drake pound cake full song drake pound cake full song](https://lasopaus933.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/6/125657420/267472504.jpg)
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman's Sounds Like Titanic is so fabulously surreal, I checked twice to be certain it was indeed a memoir and not a work of fiction.