until my teenage brothers began playing music and drowned it out.
My mother stopped playing her classical music on the radio.
Now, as I am a mother of two teenagers (and, as of today, being a half birthday for Dymo, let's include a 12 1/2 year old. Art, I haven't forgotten you, but you are not yet double digits.), the music issue raises its head in my life again.
(OK, I'm back. My sobbing has settled down.)
The classical music wasn't put on the radio anymore because of the teenage music. I didn't fight for it. I gave it up. I felt hurt by being "overtaken." I shut the musical part of me. I didn't fight back and play it on my own.
How did I find out today that I had done that?
Lately, I have been listening to (been invited to!) the YouTube channel for "The Piano Guys" by Dymo and Art (They go there after homework is done or listen to it while they do homework!).
Some of their songs have 40+ million hits!
And their songs are not even with lyrics. They play cello and piano usually in amazing on-site, no-green-screen locations, such as the beaches, cliffs, Berlin, snow covered areas, forest-river areas.
In this, I have found such joy in music!
I had shut down after many examples of music just appealing to baser instincts.
I have come alive, and it feels amazing! Thank you, my two older ones, for seeing the good in music and bringing it home to me, helping me past an issue I did not even know I had!
What issue is there that lies hidden in you? What will make you feel more alive?
We prepare for Christmas now, and He is the One to show us that joy and life... with His witnesses, with His Life, with His Birth, with His Death, with His Resurrection and Acension into Heaven.
Something to sing about!
Sorrow about the sobbing :|
ReplyDeleteThe Piano Guys put A LOT of work into their channel - it really amazes me how dedicated they are to their music!
Another thing that is interesting is finding ways to connect popular songs to Catholicism, to the Truth and Beauty and Goodness of life!
And there are always at least a few amazing Catholic hymns for each season/holiday in the calendar. They bring so much joy to me!
I hope that you sing often :)
One of the great things about the Piano Guys is that they play popular songs mixed in with classical, which makes me want to listen to it even more, while even the visual-dominoes-classical-music videos are harder to focus on (though I still have a few favorites).