Quick Musical Note
Did you know that classical musical composer Prokofiev got evicted from his home for playing a chord 218 times in the middle of the night — now that’s dedication in practicing…
Looking for a good music book to read? How about Susan Roth’s DO RE MI (Houghton Mifflin) about Guido d’Arezzo who started the practice of writing down music a thousand years ago when Guido was a young choirboy in Tuscany. Actually he got little support at first, until he met a Benedictine monk who knew how to write things down in that time. With the monk’s help, Guido designed a written language for music and became known as the “Father of Music.”
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