Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sky Macklay" in English language version.
...Sky Macklay of New York, NY (Waseca, MN);...
Oboe came first. I always really loved music, and when I was a kid I was in choir. I started playing oboe when I was ten, and I was really into it. Then I started getting serious about piano at 12 and studied pretty seriously in my teens. I started composing when I was 17 or 18, not that early. One of my creative outlets before that was that my friends and I had sort of a movie-making collective called AnimeSpoof.com; we did spoofs of anime, but also other funny movies. I sometimes did music for that and then late in high school, I started writing songs. I became serious about composing my sophomore year of college and became a composition major. But I always kept playing oboe and was serious about that, too, and kept studying it through my master's degree.
As I was searching for a title for my piece, I recalled the first sentence in the Declaration of Independence which begins, "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...
