Tonight, after dinner, the boys were noodling around on the piano. So I came over and grabbed the simplest piece of music I could find, "Silent Night". I showed them which keys were which on the piano, "C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C", and then showed them the corresponding notes on the sheet music.
Within five minutes, they were playing it on their own. Here are the results:
"If we are to have peace on earth ... our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967
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