Music for Kids - where do they begin?

 Music for Kids - where do they begin?

Dr Abe V Rotor

          

Music revival for kids summer workshop, Lagro QC   

Music for kids -

where do they begin?

They begin in growing up

curious, inquisitive, sensitive

to 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 popular

cradle song.

Today's rap and tap

are music denied;

drums dull, cymbals empty, 

ye-ye-ye - defeatist 

version of simpleton

of 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 is

never music at all.

What is music then? 

the waves, stream on the rocks,

fiddling cricket, lamb, frog, 

passing breeze in the leaves

the thunder - noise tamed

in strings wind, percussion.

How they wish, these kids

someday in their hands

music flows, through breath  

the sweetest song;

but where do they begin?

It is in believing they can. ~