Music matters.

Life is fabulous and it is horrible, both at the same time.

This is a Truth for me, a Belief.

I’ve been overwhelmed by this lately, these extreme truths that coexist. While gorgeous sunsets are happening, so are atrocities. And for the most part, there is not a thing I can do about it.

I didn’t know what to do about this, and it was starting to get stuck in my head.
What to do?

So, I am doing what I would tell a student—find the music within.

As it happens, the music within resonates with Mozart’s piano concerto in D-minor, K466, for a variety of reasons, and so I have been listening to various interpretations of this piece on repeat for the past few days.

This has helped me sort my feelings.

Or at least identify them.

There’s nothing to do about this Truth. I can’t do anything to alter this truth is what I should say.

What I can do is make music.

I can write music that makes people dance, think, love, share, research.

It’s not trivial, this writing music thing.

After all, the piece that I am listening to on repeat right now is about 237 years old.

There is a 237 year old piece of music that has captured my heart and is allowing me to process Truths.

That’s a long time for some music to exist, much less a piece of music folks at the height of their careers want to play, much less music that has a tremendous positive emotional impact on large groups of people who experience even the digital version.

Music matters.

You matter.

Please keep going and teach us what you’ve learned.

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