Carlene Havel's Blog: Carlene - Posts Tagged "music"

I wonder if we fully appreciate the great gift of reading. A reader can pick up a book written by someone who lived centuries ago and read about that person’s ideas, point of view, and experiences. If someone’s legacy is in musical notation, it needs no translation. A violinist can pull out a score that may not have seen the light of day for four hundred years, written by someone whose speech the musician would not have understood. Yet through the phenomenon of written communication, the song written by some long-dead composer lives. What a miracle.