For some of us... music is in our blood!
Sometimes, when I want to start my day off just right...... I watch and listen to this video.
It's a little boy named Jonathan, in his PJ's, conducting Beethoven's 4th! This is worth taking a couple of minutes and watching to the end... so precious!
Notice how Jonathan expresses the subtle nuances of this great work with his tiny hands! And his sweeping arm movements... and his anticipation of beat!
What I love most is that this "little"... at age three... appreciates the powerful joy of symphonic music!
It makes me smile when he yells...
"Here comes it..." and "This is FUN!"
... and when he wipes his tiny nose and doesn't miss a beat! So cute!
He gets so excited about this music, he can hardly contain himself!
Thanks, Jonathan... nothing like a little Beethoven to start the day!
Through the years, I have loved working with the Children's Symphony Concert which is sponsored and produced by the Waco Symphony Council and Baylor University Orchestra. Each year, approximately 6,000 children pile into Waco Hall (three concerts total) to hear the orchestra play! It's been going on
for 60 + years now! Many adults my age remember attending this concert as an elementary student.
Teaching children the value of music is, in my bias, the essence of giving them a gift for life... keeping the arts alive forever... and giving children a grounding to their soul when life gets hard. What a gift!
Mozart was the great child prodigy of all time. His father taught him music from his toddlerhood. He was gifted, for sure, but what if his dad had not exposed him to his life love? He (and we) might have missed out on the great compositions that he left to us.
Mozart was born in 1756.... 200 years before my birth... yet, his music is still greatly popular today!
I especially love his opera works... so funny and yet, so fun for the artists who love coloratura!
I love to hear Cecelia Bartoli sing one of my favorite arias, "Come Scoglio" from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart!
We know that Mozart was probably manic... obvious from the fact that he is considered the most prolific composer, yet he only lived to be 36 years old! I always say "Mozart burned out early, because he lived so fast and worked non-stop!"
He was giving concerts and composing music at age six. He studied with the great music theorist and composer, Bach, at age eight. He lived a crazy existence and died too early. It makes me wonder if Mozart had lived to a ripe old age, what more he might have accomplished!
When it's all said and done... his legacy all began when he was just a little child and we have reaped the benefits of his love for music as they were passed down to us!
Grateful for the children!
Grateful for the music!
La - Ti - Do!
Jeanne
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