About a week ago, my husband and I (who are both musicians) , decided that we needed to listen to more classical music, so we chose a station and began listening to it in the car.
The first thing that was cool was that I started to learn the names of some of those pieces that are familiar to most people but you could never think of the name or who it was by.The other kind of fun thing was listening to unfamiliar pieces with my husband and trying to guess the era and composer based on different things like the style, the instrumentation, etc..I know, pretty nerdy, right?
It wasn't until today that I discovered or perhaps rediscovered, another benefit of listening to classical music.
I had a pretty rough Monday going, I was stuck in traffic, stressed because I was running late and of course stressed because of everything else going on in my life,and to top it all off, it was raining...yea....
Anyways, I switched over to the classical music station and a piano concerto by Mozart came on, and before I knew it I was completely sucked in, my body began to relax and I was hit by the great power that music can hold over us. It can completely change our mood and make us feel whatever it may be that the composer was trying to express. Music can influence our emotions, without words! Wow! I mean how amazing is that! Music can speak with no words! Powerful stuff...I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes to ponder: where words fail, music speaks...