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(This post was written prior to 2016, in a blog entitled “Jubal’s Jottings.”)
A father told about sitting at his son’s college graduation piano concert. After completing a marvelous concert of classical music, he was joined on stage for the last selection by a small combo of instruments. They broke into a jazz arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” the Arlen and Harburg classic. The father told of his bewilderment at what should possess his son to choose that piece for the culmination to his marvelous program. The father couldn’t resist asking his son what led him to the incredulous choice. His son’s response was something like, “Dad, don’t you remember that “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is my favorite song? It was the song that played in the mobile hanging above my crib!”
Parents, be careful what you choose to have played when your children are in their crib! It might just end up on a college music recital! It does point to the lasting wonder and power that music can play in each of our lives.