Music defines the emotion of the heart…healings take place. Chris Finlayson
I’ve gone for long periods of time with very little music and long periods of time with a whole lot of music.
Going without music, which is somewhat foreign to me, happened for a variety of reasons: maybe it wasn’t easy to access or I was tired of what I had or didn’t like the interruptions on radio (satellite radio takes care of that) or my kids would interrupt just as it was getting to a good part or I couldn’t hear the words over their talking in the back seat. The more I turned it up, the louder they would talk.
But at other times I consciously added music in order to get through…and there was a time I took up line dancing in a big way in order to survive while I was waiting for our first Chinese daughter. Along the way I met some really great friends and had a lot of good times.
Music can accentuate a mood or create one or take us out of a mood to another place. It’s good to have a wide enough selection that we can choose. For me, perfume does the same thing. So I have double choices.
Music is both simple and powerful. Simple, in that it is easy and easier to access. Powerful for what it accents or brings. I admire the talents of those who can play music or dance to make it look effortless.
Over the weekend my 11 yo spent the better part of both days making music. She is taking viola, and I never have to ask her to practice. I got out my electric piano/organ and set it up for her in my college girl’s room (she is at college) and gave her the beginning books and let her go at it. Keys on one of the octaves are marked with letters to correspond to the notes in the beginning books. I think it is time to get her lessons. I was really proud of her. (I hated to practice, but loved to play for myself. Even early on I realized how it would enhance or alter my experience/mood.)
I was thinking how much easier it is to take music along now than when I was a child and how technology has just gone by leaps and bounds, from the portable record players that were the size of 45s…to better and better speakers…miniaturing technology leading to transistor radios…then 8 tracks and tape recorders and now iPods and MP3s. And the sound just continues to improve.
Don’t we live in a great time frame!
I listened to Ottmar Liebert yesterday, among others, including my sweet 11 yo, who was mighty surprised I could sight read, albeit not as well as when I’ve been playing regularly.
Karin
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