tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post1142377542055633028..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Those wonderful teenage (y)earsElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-79463467600739649832007-07-30T19:13:00.000-05:002007-07-30T19:13:00.000-05:00It really is. The other night Ben played an hour-...It really is. The other night Ben played an hour-long concert at a local coffee shop, and he and Rachel sang a few songs together. He even asked me and Michael (who plays guitar) to play a few songs with him. I even dusted off my flute for the occasion (the first time in a long time).<BR/><BR/>I like to think of music as being the ultimate use of our sense of hearing--really using it. I think that the experience of music is a very physical thing, just like tasting food is a very physical thing. The only way "in" to whatever is beyond the physical for all of us earthly beings is through the physical. We just don't know much at all beyond that, and as long as we have music we really don't need to know. I think it is best to think of it as magic and to think of ourselves as extremely fortunate or even just plain lucky to come into contact with it.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-9441730755910508312007-07-30T17:39:00.000-05:002007-07-30T17:39:00.000-05:00There is so much thinking and discussion going on,...There is so much thinking and discussion going on, as to what music even <I>is</I> and why we humans spend so much energy on it. But it is too bad but very possible there will little in terms of answers to these questions by the time we are gone, or even for centuries to come. We might not understand, but watching your young ones be human, must be a joy.Peter (the other)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13566863953900423495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-81112779207529461372007-06-25T21:52:00.000-05:002007-06-25T21:52:00.000-05:00My daughter "discovered" The Beatles and Simon & G...My daughter "discovered" The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel in high school. Our younger son discovered Cat Stevens ... and was pretty impressed that I had already bought all that I found on iTunes. (I just love it when I impress my children! ;-)<BR/><BR/>Our older son has such eclectic taste it's great fun. He's introduced me to some old bands (somehow I missed certain years ... perhaps I could blame it on the babies?), and he does his own music as well. <BR/><BR/>Not one wants oboe, though. SMART kids. ;-)<BR/><BR/>I just love what our three kiddos have "discovered" and what they love. We DID drag them to concerts on occasion, but mostly they came to rehearsals and they seem to have great memories of that.<BR/><BR/>Our youngest (nearly 18) will be going with us to Der Rosenkavalier on Wednesday night. When he was pre-kindergarten my husband took him to one of my open dress rehearsals of a Mozart opera, thinking he'd stay for one act. Jameson insisted they stay for the whole thing.<BR/><BR/>Kids & music is such a fun thing to watch! (And hear.)Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16172401944836258683noreply@blogger.com