It started out like any other concert. The Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra was performing works by Mozart in Boston’s Symphony Hall. Concluding the program was Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music”. The music ends softly and profoundly.
But then something wonderful happened.
As the music ended, and the conductor held the players and audience in rapt stillness, a child’s voice full of wonder and awe:
“Wow!”
The audience laughed, then erupted into applause. And set off a search for who that child was. Not to chide him, but to thank him and have him meet the conductor and be given a recording of the performance.
Because that child is all of us. That child is what, as a musician, conductor, and educator, long for.
To be that moved by music.