A friend sent me this last week, it reminded me how much I love “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten. In this video, she’s joined by the PS22 Chorus from Staten Island.
I think the message of the song is more than appropriate right now. Let’s hope a lot of people are willing to fight for democracy.
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Thank you Brenda because I had never heard of Rachel Platten before now.
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A very special song. It was released in 2015 and I first heard it that year during my cancer treatment. It still leaves me misty eyed and probably always will.
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I think the real hero of this video is the music teacher who taught these children to sing together with Rachel Platten. I have been told many times that I am a gifted and talented musician who is good enough to play professionally. Whenever someone praises my musical abilities, I always try to give most of the credit (or the blame) for my abilities to what I learned from my music teachers starting with my mother when I was six years old.
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Besides my mother, I have been Blessed and Lucky to have some very good music teachers on my way through life.
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It’s hard to beat a room full of young kids unfettered by all the stuff the world has to throw at them, singing joyously.
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Speaking of a roomful of children having a good time with music, I have a story to share about this. Many years ago I had the opportunity to play the ragtime piece “Who Let The Cows Out?” by Charles Humfeld for a Kindergarten class. At three places in this piece there is a blank measure with no notes and the instructions to “Make a noise like a cow”. Those five year old kids had waaay too much fun trying to imitate a cow.
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I’m reminded by this that the meaning of life is found in the journey, not the destination.
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