Italian pop singer Patty Pravo whose been cranking out songs since the 60s told Grazia magazine that her big dream as she gets older is not to open a celebrity restaurant, but to conduct an orchestra. You know, really, anyone can put on a frac and wave around a little stick at a sea of music nerds.
Lucky for us, the lady knows her limits: "Vorrei dirigere un'orchestra. Ho studiato per farlo e vorrei tornare indietro e ricominciare da li. Ma prima avrei bisogno di almeno un anno di studio". "I'd like to conduct an orchestra. I studied how to do it and I'd like to go back and start from there. But first I'd need at least one year of studying."
I think it would be fun to run a newspaper! Weeee! Future conducting stars rejoice! OC's taking off a year to become a conductor -- a great excuse to snort ritalin, brush up on my beer pong skillz, and use my parent's credit cards "for textbooks"!