The Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts collaborated with the Davie Jazz Society to bring one of its musicians, Jon Saxx, to NSU on Jan. 28. Saxx performed music and talked to students.
Bill Adams, music and theatre program director and professor in DCMA, said this collaboration is important for the NSU community.
“We’ve been working with them for almost a year to try to find something that we could do together and we finally made it happen,” Adams said. “Music wants to be more engaged with the community because we’re such a communal thing to begin with. We want people to be a part of music at Nova.”
Community enrichment is one of the things that fuels Saxx’s passion. He considers opportunities like these “amazing on purpose,” a catchphrase Saxx uses to describe moments of prosperity.
“It’s rewarding. It’s almost like a conversation with my daughter, to be able to go back and tell people the strategies they can use,” Saxx said. “I just enjoy hearing what [college students] are doing, so I can help change their mindset and help them accomplish their goals.”
Saxx’s musical story is not typical. He shared his beginnings as an engineer and his journey toward music in hopes that it could inspire others to pursue their passion.
“I think because I was in engineering and project management [first] and then I was a musician second, I got a very unique and different type of perspective on how to take a purpose-driven life and give it a purpose driven plan,” Saxx said. “I think because I’ve had those dual toolboxes, I was able to create a plan that has allowed me to be successful. I just like sharing that plan anytime.”
Saxx credited music as his “stress reliever” to get him through college at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
James Perez, senior music major, enjoyed listening to what Saxx had to say.
“He had such insightful things to say about the industry, [and] I love that we were able to ask him questions,” Perez said “He had just the best answers for us and our position in college. I felt like he really understood us, and he just helped us a lot.”
Saxx’s message gave students like Taliah de Miranda, senior psychology major, something to hold on to.
“The biggest thing was when he said, ‘when you fail to plan, you plan to fail.’ I think that’s so important, especially in college. It’s like having balance,” de Miranda said.
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