Klarinet Archive - Posting 000472.txt from 2003/04

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: [kl] Anecdote - Music touches almost everything
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:36:48 -0400

My daughter took her children to a recital that was held in a church.
She invited a neighbor & the neighbor's children to come along, which
they did.

The music turned out to be hammered dulcimer and guitar playing Celtic
songs. For the first few minutes, the neighbor kept raising her
eyebrow and asking my daughter questions whose purpose my daughter could
not fathom. Finally the neighbor gathered up her children and walked
out.

Later, the neighbor told my daughter, "Celtics are pagan, how dare they
play in a church?"

....but that's not the end of the story.

Today I was playing Handel's Messiah while I was parked in a shopping
center. I always turn the CD up when it comes to the Hallelujah
chorus. My windows were down, and a man stopped at my car. "I don't
buy that Christian stuff!" he exclaimed. "You aren't going to convert
me!."

My point is that, while some of us listen to music simply because it's
pleasurable, music *does* reach into and touch other parts of our mind
and body. Music does not function in a confined 'mental space'
independent of the other parts of our minds and bodies.

Today was an excellent example --- seen from both religious
perspectives, pagan and Christian.

Cheers,
Bill

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