Music for Kids - where do they begin?
Dr Abe V Rotor
Music for kids -where do they begin?They begin in growing upcurious, inquisitive, sensitiveto sound with quality,notes and melody.A note here, a note there,Brahms the kid babysitting,barely reaching the piano,composed a lullaby,world's most popularcradle song.Today's rap and tapare music denied;drums dull, cymbals empty,ye-ye-ye - defeatistversion of simpletonof the finest piece.But they insist, these kids;instant guitar, violin,piano, keyboard:opera, concert, aria -Can't they wait?Only few of so many.To make music instant,push buttons, shout, dance,be weird, grotesque,a little puff here, too,music like weeds isnever music at all.What is music then?the waves, stream on the rocks,fiddling cricket, lamb, frog,passing breeze in the leavesthe thunder - noise tamedin strings wind, percussion.How they wish, these kidssomeday in their handsmusic flows, through breaththe sweetest song;but where do they begin?It is in believing they can. ~
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